Manager, Category Indirect

**About Apotex Inc.**

Apotex Inc. is a Canadian-based global health company that produces high-quality, affordable medicines for patients around the world. Apotex employs almost 7,200 people worldwide in manufacturing, R&D, and commercial operations. Apotex medicines are accessible to patients in more than 75 countries globally. Through vertical integration, the Apotex group is focused on the development and sale of generic, biosimilar and specialty products.

**Job Summary**:
We are looking for a Global Category Manager,to support our business units and stakeholders.

The Global Category Manager leads the strategic sourcing, negotiation, contracting and supplier relationship management for a complex portfolio of services. The purpose of the position is to create value for key stakeholders, reduce total cost of ownership, and leverage world-class negotiation and sourcing strategies, tools and processes, and mitigate risk through contract development. The Global Category Manager will be responsible for the development of short-medium term category plans and obtain line of business buy in and support for the category plan. This position interacts with managers, directors and officers throughout the organization. The position also closely works with 3rd party contracted partners and external suppliers. Having experience in all phases of the supplier selection process (sourcing, RFx, contracting, etc.) as well as Supplier Relationship Management experience is required for success in this role.

IT:
Identifying and sourcing technology products and services, including hardware, software, and cloud solutions, by evaluating vendor options, negotiating contracts, managing supplier relationships, and ensuring the best value for money while aligning with company needs and budget constraints; essentially acting as the primary point of contact for all IT purchasing activities within Global Information Technology

Telecom:
Purchase of telecommunications services and equipment from external vendors, ensuring the best value and quality for a company's network needs, often requiring a strong understanding of telecom technologies and market dynamics while collaborating with internal teams to identify and fulfill procurement requirements.

If you are an experienced Procurement professional who is passionate about category management, thrives in a fast-paced environment, enjoys building relationships and adding immediate value to an organization, then becoming a leader on our Global Indirect Procurement team could be the ideal career for you

**Responsibilities**:
**Category Planning**
- Develops and drives 1-3 year Global Category Management Strategies focused on identifying and contracting with suppliers aligned to current and future Business needs and the Category Management goals
- Collect input of internal stakeholders' needs and market knowledge. (e.g., supply market structure and dynamics, strategies of suppliers, pricing structures, opportunities, and threats)
- Keeps up to date on Category Market Intelligence and Supply market trends that may impact supply pricing or continuity to gain competitive market/sourcing advantage
- Strategy implementation and follow-up: tackle action items, deliver progress report to Associate Director, Indirect Procurement

**Strategic Sourcing**
- Prepare and execute category RFx package, RFx type and approach, internal stakeholders' requirements, roles for negotiation, list of suppliers, alternatives to negotiated agreement.
- Hand over RFx execution to Global Indirect Sourcing Leads and ensure on time project delivery.
- Analyses and understand total cost of ownership structures and benchmarking information to develop and improve innovative cost modelling.
- Negotiation and contract award: determine optimal negotiation/award alternative, award goods/services package to supplier(s), as approved by stakeholders.
- Prepare business case with relevant quantitative and qualitative information, articulate it effectively, and get support from Senior Leadership
- Contract implementation - Collaborate with Contract Specialist, Supplier Contracts to provide necessary contract information to facilitate timely execution.
- Develop and socialize implementation plan with relevant parties.
- Develop and seek approval for project savings value and track negotiated savings.

**Business Partnering**
- Build key relationships and earn a position of trusted advisor within the Business decision making and strategy development organization.
- Acts as the primary liaison between Procurement and Business Senior Leadership in their functional domain;
- Translates business strategies, challenges, and opportunities into Sourcing opportunities (business acumen, innovation, thought leader);
**Collaborate with SRM team**
- To manage contracts and decide on appropriate actions to be performed and metrics to be tracked
- To identify supplier innovation and continuous improvement opportunities in assigned categories
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