Category Manager Procurement — Abbott
- Location
- Basel
- Contract
- full-time
- Posted
- 5 days ago
Role overview
About Abbott
At Abbott, we believe people live their fullest lives when they are healthy — physically, emotionally, and socially.
As a global healthcare leader with over 107,000 colleagues in 160+ countries , we create lifechanging technologies that support health at every stage of life.
- About Abbott
- At Abbott, we believe people live their fullest lives when they are healthy — physically, emotionally, and socially.
- Core Job Responsibilities:
- Direct, plan and execute strategic GPROC programs, including re-engineering of supplier base on a global or regional basis.
Main responsibilities
- Core Job Responsibilities:
- Direct, plan and execute strategic GPROC programs, including re-engineering of supplier base on a global or regional basis.
- Focussing on Cost and Supply Chain continuity.
- Support optimization of the EPD GPROC supplier structure to expand our global supplier network, improve supplier compliance and efficiency
- Actively pursue a cross-functional culture of excellence to effectively implement global supplier programs
- Align programs with Operations and other EPD Functional areas on goals and objectives for the global supplier process
- Build and maintain close working relationships with and provide expertise to management to identify and realize improvements
- Effective cross functional and divisional stakeholder communication, collaboration and coordination
- Lead and/or support large scale and sustainable change management initiatives
- Be a key leader in influencing the evolving EPD GPROC supplier strategy
Company and context
- Develop supply market insight capability within the GPROC (Global Procurement) organization to increase knowledge of supply market dynamics, composition, trends and gain a comprehensive understanding of the market landscape and business models from a macro and micro economic perspective covering and Procurement.
- And utilize this to build and maintain Procurement strategies.
- Monitor supply market dynamics across peer organizations also for benchmarking purposes.
- Focus on achieving LRP Supplier Relationship Office related savings
- Drive annual performance improvements via strategy work and applicable metrics.
- Build up and maintain supplier relationship experience roadmap and ensure that processes meet and reflect EPD overall expectations
- Facilitate and communicate the global supplier landscape design, implementation, optimization and integration of the flow of materials and the related financials
- Assist in analysing of all Supplier Cost within EPD SRO (1.650MMUSD)
- Ensure that impacts to operations driven by regulatory requirements are minimized and/or leveraged for competitive advantage
- Support the Snr Global Supplier Relationship Director to deliver specific strategic projects and initiatives
Additional details
- Abbott is a place where science, purpose, and people come together — and where diverse perspectives are essential to building better outcomes for patients. Primary Job Function:
- Stay abreast of supplier related regulatory requirements, providing expertise to project teams to ensure cost-effective compliance
- Graduate degree or professional certification is preferred (MBA, CPA, etc.) Minimum Experience/Training Required:
Notes and original content
- Abbott is a place where science, purpose, and people come together — and where diverse perspectives are essential to building better outcomes for patients.
- Primary Job Function:
- Minimum Education:
- Graduate degree or professional certification is preferred (MBA, CPA, etc.)
- Minimum Experience/Training Required:
- Experience :
Questions about this listing
What salary does Abbott offer for this role?
Abbott lists CHF 85'500 - 129'500 gross per year for this position in Basel. This is the salary published in the original listing (or, when the employer omits a figure, a realistic estimate for the role and sector) — the calculator on this site converts it to your actual net take-home once cross-border tax and social contributions are applied.
Is this a full-time role, and what type of contract does Abbott offer?
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