Category Manager Procurement — Abbott
- Location
- Basel
- Contract
- full-time
- Posted
- 15 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: Strategic Orientation
- Forecast price trends, industry trends of all key materials (API, Excipients).
Main responsibilities
- Core Job Responsibilities: Strategic Orientation
- Forecast price trends, industry trends of all key materials (API, Excipients).
- Conduct predictive analysis and help devise long term and short-term procurement strategy (including e-procurement) in alignment with the larger EPD strategy to proactively support revenue and division margin growth (market beating growth), evolve a cost-efficient procurement function.
- Facilitate identification of supply chain risks associated with cost, supply, quality etc. by analysis of market trends, regulatory changes etc. to ensure consistency with the Business Continuity Plan.
- Understands and contributes to the business unit strategy, based on the specific business and technology expertise, and translates business strategy for category. Vendor Management
Company and context
- Monitor supply market dynamics across peer organizations also for benchmarking purposes.
- Use business insights to leverage opportunities.
- Ensure an effective communication process within PTO helping to create an informational advantage supporting strategic decision making.
- Responsible / Ownership for developing and implementing global supplier relationship strategies leveraging the informational advantage coming from the knowledge of supply market landscape and dynamics.
- Initiate, design and support to deliver specific strategic projects and initiatives considering all relevant financial, operational, qualitative and regulatory aspects.
- Stakeholder management leading up to DVP levels to get support and resources to enable execution for the category strategy.
- Ensure that impacts to operations driven by regulatory requirements are minimized and/or leveraged for competitive advantage
- Facilitate, communicate, lead the global supplier landscape design, implementation, optimization and integration of the flow of materials and the related financials.
- 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. Focus on achieving LRP PTO related savings
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:
- Build up and maintain supplier relationship experience roadmap and ensure that processes meet and reflect EPD overall expectations. Focus on achieving LRP PTO related savings Core Job Responsibilities: Strategic Orientation
- Understands and contributes to the business unit strategy, based on the specific business and technology expertise, and translates business strategy for category.
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:
- Build up and maintain supplier relationship experience roadmap and ensure that processes meet and reflect EPD overall expectations.
- Focus on achieving LRP PTO related savings
- Core Job Responsibilities:
- Strategic Orientation
- Vendor Management
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?
This listing is a full-time position. The contract type shown here comes directly from the employer's original posting; always confirm exact hours, notice period and probation length with Abbott during the application process, since these details can vary by role even within the same contract category.
Do I need a cross-border work permit for a role in Basel?
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