Senior Specialist, Procurement

Overview

Senior Specialist role in Advanced Strategy & Procurement, managing Analytical Labs support (60%) and gathering, creating, delivering, tracking, analyzing, modeling and managing data for strategic initiatives within the Small Molecules area (40%).

What you'll do

• Support the company's analytical testing labs.
• Create a sourcing strategy, ensure all chemicals and reagents are available for sourcing, and qualify vendors for risk management.
• Support strategic and operating objectives for the procurement function, including product sourcing, supply risk management, supplier performance improvement, cost reduction, supplier diversity development, working capital improvement and supplier relationship management.
• Work with cross-functional teams including Legal, Finance, Procure-to-Pay, internal stakeholders and external suppliers.
• Conduct detailed market analyses looking at facts and data to provide deep and meaningful insights.
• Implement procurement strategies and execute tactical procurement processes.
• Serve as a resource regarding processes, procedures and systems for the procurement function.
• Support selection of suppliers to ensure appropriate savings and service levels.
• Ensure all legal contract requirements are met.
• Manage relationships with selected external contacts to ensure optimal team performance.
• Enforce compliance with Global Procurement policies and procedures using a data-driven business case approach.
• Conduct supplier and supply market analysis, including market intelligence, to provide insight to sourcing teams.
• Construct detailed cost models and purchase price analyses of goods and services supplied to the company, including supplier visits where required, and develop cost reduction opportunities.
• Conduct strategic analysis such as Portfolio Analysis, Supplier Preferencing and Day One Sourcing.
• Upload data to Ariba and other procurement dashboards.
• Prepare analysis and reporting of category spend, savings, compliance and other metrics; support the global annual budget and profit planning process; maintain financial reporting and management systems (including SAP) with up-to-date data.
• Create detailed pre-negotiation plans, support and participate in prolonged negotiation sessions with suppliers, and conduct post-negotiation debriefs and follow-through plans.
• Create and execute RFIs, RFPs and e-Auctions, with subsequent structured information analysis using electronic procurement processes.
• Conduct risk assessment (including Financial Solvency Analysis and compliance with FCPA and Business Partner Code of Conduct) and establish risk mitigation plans within the supply base under the Manufacturing Division's risk management framework.
• Be an active member of one or more category teams, contributing to breakthrough strategies that deliver cost reduction targets.
• Generate high-quality work and share learnings with colleagues across the Global Supplier Management Group (GSMG).

What you'll need

• Bachelor's degree in Chemical Engineering, Pharmacy or Organic Chemistry (minimum requirement).
• Some relevant work experience in the pharmaceutical industry.
• Adaptability and ability to work across multiple enterprise initiatives and communicate effectively across different levels of the organization.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, including ability to make clear and concise presentations and sensitivity to cultural differences in communication.
• Ability to influence external partners to drive meaningful outcomes.
• Advanced data collection, management, analytics and reporting skills.
• Excellent project management skills.
• Ability to work independently with a high degree of flexibility and adaptability to deal with ambiguous and dynamic situations.
• Quick learner, motivated to cultivate technical, business and commercial skills by applying knowledge within the company's environment.
• Proficient in Microsoft Office suite (Excel, PowerPoint, Word).

Nice to have

• Experience in a GMP lab environment.
• Support of analytical testing labs at a large scale.
• Prior pharmaceutical industry experience or Fortune 500 company experience.
• Cost modeling experience.
• Experience with MS Teams, SharePoint or similar collaboration websites.
• Experience with PowerBI or other data analytic/visualization tools.
• Experience using Excel to manage large datasets.
• Experience managing external relationships.
• Experience with data collection methods.

Details

• Location: Hyderabad, Telangana, India.
• Employee status: Regular.
• Travel requirements: Flexible.
• Job posting end date: 11/13/2026.