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• Reporting to the Procurement Lead.
• Based in Maidenhead with 3/2 flexible working offered.
• Comprehensive salary, bonus and benefits package.

Role overview:

The Senior Procurement Specialist is responsible for executing source-to-contract procurement processes in alignment with business goals and industry best practices, ensuring compliance with procurement policies, and contributing to supplier diversity and sustainability. This role plays an essential part in executing supplier management activities, implementing continuous improvement projects, and driving day-to-day supplier excellence.

Key Responsibilities:

• Assist with source to contract procurement processes in line with business goals and industry best practices, ensuring alignment with defined category strategic vision.
• Maintain compliance with procurement policy and team activities to business requirements of supplier diversity and sustainability, executing tactical processes to create value.
• Execute supplier management activities in alignment to category SRM strategy, fostering a collaborative and innovative approach to supplier interactions, including negotiations and workshops.
• Adhere to risk mitigation plans developed in collaboration with Category Managers, providing tactical input on supplier performance and relaying the identification of procurement risks to safeguard the organization’s interest and maintain operational resilience.
• Maintain excellence in all contract execution activities including source to contract and requisition to pay, implementing strategies to identify inefficiencies in process design and execution.
• Execute continuous improvement projects initiated by the Procurement Leadership team, embracing and furthering a spirit of adaptability and innovation in procurement operations.
• Oversee Specialists’ execution of procurement activities and provide feedback while developing own capabilities and accumulates category expertise in accordance with individual learning path.
• Actively enable team goals, ensuring performance targets and objectives are delivered successfully.

• Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, Supply Chain Management or related field.
• Significant and proven experience in procurement, supply chain, or related business or operations function, including experience within the Pharmaceutical industry.
• Previous experience in procurement activities including source to contract, requisition to pay, and negotiation.
• Experience using Ariba/SAP.
• Strong proficiency in Microsoft Office suite (Power Platform).
• Specific and tactical expertise in enabling implementation of procurement processes, including source-to-contract planning and cost assessment, ensuring strategic and informed procurement decisions.
• Ample experience in the respective category area, with familiarity tailoring processes to meet category needs.
• Ability to enable the bidding and negotiation processes, with adept ability to implement complex long-term projects with a focus on creating effective supplier relationships.
• Capacity and experience assisting with collaborative supplier relationships, aligning procurement activities with business needs.
• Innovative problem-solving skills combined with a solution-oriented mindset, enabling creative approaches and clear communication at all organizational levels.
• Cross-functional collaboration abilities and teamwork skills, effectively navigating diverse team dynamics.
• Strong soft skills and emotional intelligence, facilitating empathetic interactions, effective communication, and robust relationship-building.
• Impactful executive functioning abilities and autonomous work ethic, maintaining efficient performance in challenging situations and building consensus in decision-making.

AbbVie is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to operating with integrity, driving innovation, transforming lives, serving our community and embracing diversity and inclusion.  It is AbbVie’s policy to employ qualified persons of the greatest ability without discrimination against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex (including pregnancy), physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, marital status, status as a protected veteran, or any other legally protected group status.

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