Freelance Procurement Director

Freelance Procurement Director - Pharmaceuticals - 12-Month Contract - Düsseldorf

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!