Freelance Procurement Director
Quanta part of QCS Staffing
Stuttgart
Freelance Procurement Director - Pharmaceuticals - 12-Month Contract - Stuttgart
A global pharmaceutical company require an experienced Procurement Director to lead the function on a major project.
Reporting into the Global Procurement Team, this individual will be responsible for managing the procurement for a highly complex CAPEX project with corporate organisational interface and alignment of global and local standards.
Responsibilities :
- Lead the commercial evaluation and advice on incoming bids ( EPCM, equipment, Engineering suppliers).
- Internal alignment with internal stakeholders (e.g.) legal, SME’s and finance.
- Act as escalation point on ongoing pending suppliers.
- Support the technical SME in commercial questions.
- Emphasising proactive, systematic approach to detect and avert delays to contractual milestones agreed upon.
- Participation in project meetings to provide updates and status of documents submittals.
- Ensure that updates are provided to all relevant stakeholders on any initiated mitigations on catch-up and improvements.
- Review status reports for any potential problems and initiate mitigating actions for potential risk areas.
- Visits field / suppliers on a regular basis, aligns with engineering and other stakeholders for actual status and progress (and get a view behind scene) throughout the project.
- Reporting and updates on own packages.
- Make and drive some RFQ’s (strategy, Tender, Evaluations negotiations and contracting) on client’s own contracts.
- Meticulous file keeper, lead a procurement team and associated support functions using the RFQ tool used by the project.
Requirements :
- Demonstrated ability to recognise opportunities, strongly influence the setting of direction and exceed expectations on deliverables.
- Prior experience with controllership, product costing, and data stewardship
- Technical proficiency with MS Excel, MS Word, MS PowerPoint, and SAP.
- Excellent communication / facilitation and influencing skills.
- Project Management skills
- Analytical and organisational skills
- Project planning and implementation skills
- Overall manufacturing business knowledge
- Demonstrated commercial skills
- Experience delivering capital projects >
$million
- Degree level of education in Procurement, Engineering, Manufacturing, Supply Chain Business related field or Degree level education in any discipline with relevant experience
- Exemplification of high integrity, fiscal responsibility, and business ownership.
- Fluent in English and German
If this role is of interest to you, please apply now!
Vor 30+ Tagen