Global Category Manager, Legal Services
3 months ago
At AstraZeneca, we pride ourselves on crafting a collaborative culture that champions knowledge-sharing, ambitious thinking and innovation - ultimately providing employees with the opportunity to work across teams, functions and even the globe.
Recognizing the importance of individualized flexibility, our ways of working allow employees to balance personal and work commitments while ensuring we continue to create a strong culture of collaboration and teamwork by engaging face-to-face in our offices 3 days a week. Our head office and BlueSky Hub in downtown Toronto are purposely designed with collaboration in mind, providing space where teams can come together to strategize, brainstorm and connect on key projects.
Our dedication to sustainability is also central to our culture and part of what makes AstraZeneca a great place to work. We know the health of people, the planet and our business are interconnected which is why we’re taking ambitious action to tackle some of the biggest challenges of our time, from climate change to access to healthcare and disease prevention.
**Accountabilities**:
- As a Global Category Manager, you will develop and optimize category strategies, ensuring a fully integrated and customer-aligned AZ-wide category plan.
- Collaborate closely with the wider Professional Services Procurement team, Regional Category Managers and AZ’s broader Procurement network as well as stakeholders in the Legal and Legal Operations Team to deliver category strategy implementation.
- Overseeing the implementation of category plans to ensure that the underpinning process improvement and procurement activities deliver the expected business value, in accordance with the strategic plans.
- Partnering with AstraZeneca’s GPS organization in Warsaw (Global Procurement Services) advising on and driving procurement strategies, to make decisions necessary, to purchase products and services in congruence with organizational objectives.
**Essential Skills/Experience**:
- Degree level or equivalent qualifications
- Significant negotiation experience, preferably with external law firms
- Project management, change management and people management skills
- Technical expertise in across the whole lifecycle of Procurement activities
- Communication skills and ability to influence others
- Teamwork focused and relationship builder: Works well with others, across departments, levels and cultures
- Comfortable with risk and ambiguous situations
- Intercultural awareness
- Proficiency in Procurement and other business-related systems, e.g. SAP, Coupa, PowerBI.
**Desirable Skills**:
- Experience in Legal Procurement Category Management
- Experience in law firm pricing models & negotiations.
- Experience with Artificial Intelligence (AI) Procurement, preferably in relation to Legal Services
- Experience in either a global, regional or local category management role
- Experience of working in a complex matrix organization
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- Top 100 Employers Award
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