Procurement Business Partner

Procurement Business Partner

• Location: Buenos Aires,

About the job

Ready to push the limits of what’s possible? Join Sanofi in one of our corporate functions and you can play a vital part in the performance of our entire business while helping to make an impact on millions around the world. As Procurement Business Partner within our procurement team.

The Procurement Business Partner is an agile, self-driven leader and motivated individual taking ownership of the country, supporting in both COGs and indirect áreas, and hub coordination regardless of reporting structure constructs. They are the face of Procurement at country/Hub level, Process owner, an expert responsible to ensure communication, alignment, efficiency, delivery, and connection within the MCO and Procurement Domains along with key business partners and Hub users.

Main responsibilities:

Operational Excellence

• Provides feedback on global strategies to be consolidated in voice of geography communication & helps drive strategy implementation at Country and Hub level
• Maintains routine Country checks to ensure knowledge of and movement in alignment with the Company strategy
• Establishes routine Hub reviews to ensure One Sanofi/One Procurement approach, collaborates with Hub teams along with Domains and key business partners to ensure efficiency, delivery and the best user experience
• Works with Country Finance BPs, local commercial leads, S2P colleagues and local councils to understand, confirm and support procurement pipeline with integration into budgetary process, including the Hub Opex consolidation and validation
• Develops, in collaboration with COGS team, business partnership with M&S site stakeholders (Supply Chain, Finance, Manufacturing, Technical teams, Quality, SMS, …)
• Collaborate with Procurement Transformation & Excellence function to bring external perspectives, good/best practices & KPIs into Sanofi/Procurement Country and Hub
• Establishes and overseas means by which to monitor progress on key initiatives within the Country and Hub and how to effectively express them
• Supports realignment processes as necessary in the Procurement evolution and Continuous improvement, connecting with other Country & Hub Managers
• Drives efficiency and connects end to end procurement processes and specific S2P tools to Country and Hub level use with a holistic view and incorporating use of AI
• Maintains a high and comprehensive knowledge and awareness of the different processes associated with Source to Pay (S2P), and helps drive process improvement, simplification & user experience associated with them at Country level and Hub using agile and lean approach
• Attends specific geographical SRM programs as voice of region to guide relationship with key vendors, validates supplier segmentation, and critical vendors for the Country and Hub
• Attend specifics meetings to support in resource allocation and talent recruitment along with P&C   
• Support local business projects and maintains One Sanofi mindset and approach, and Ad-hoc participation in MCO projects and activities
• Works with COGS team (PSLs/Cluster Heads who are in charge of IA sites) to support COGS sites and ensuring pipeline is taken into account
• Works to deliver value through a pipeline of local initiatives with local vendors that may not have group contracts driving value through negotiation, benchmark or site manufacturing efficiency (eg: spec change, design to value, etc….)
• Works with COGS team (PSLs/Cluster Heads who are in charge of IA sites) to support COGS sites and ensure pipeline is taken into account with overall GBU 3rd party expenses cost reduction goals & reducing site material sourcing risk exposure

Learning Offer 

• Is the go-to expert on specific local and geographical ways of working and provides expert guidance for Sanofi team as necessary
• Understands needs of local Hub organization and ensures procurement training is in tune with these needs (upskill and reskill) and or provides guidance on topics to local and Hub organization to support tool/process usage
• Builds network to understand country context, market benchmarks, available expertise and contents within Procurement and Business Units 
• Explores novel technologies and applications of their local/MCO vendor base, aligned with our domain team members, to understand how they can be applied to geography and Hub

Compliance

• Supports alignment plans for the implementation of global procurement policies and overseas the process to completion
• Identifies with Global Category Managers (GCMs) within the Domain and/or Hub team the requirements regarding Risk/CSR/Compliance and highlights gaps for closure
• Maintains comprehensives understanding of Local/MCO and Hub Policies/Processes related to Risk/CSR/Compliance and ensures that these are considered across procurement strategies
• As necessary, coordinates with Domains and/or Hubs team the follow-up of required vendor evaluation processes such as they are related to Risk/CSR/Compliance
• Supports as necessary specific local country/MCO and Hub audits (eg. Internal, SEC)
• Promotes good practices holistically
• Maintains procurement Business Continuity Plan at a Local and Hub level

Communication

• Maintains peer-to-peer relationships with Country leaders and Business Partners
• Maintains presence and interaction on behalf of procurement on local councils 
• Aligns at the country and Hub level on Priorities and Strategies in a matrix organization, integrating Business, MCO, Regional and Global Inputs
• Establishes and helps to maintain a centralized knowledge repository as the procurement single point of contact representative for the geography, and promotes one single source of truth/data  
• Leads Communication programs within the geography for all Procurement Team Members as necessary
• Provides input from the geography for communication flow down to ensure adoption/awareness of Global initiatives 
• Identifies needs for generic communication materials across geography and leads in development of such materials in close liaison with Procurement Communication team & BPs
• Foster a common culture and mindset amongst the team members at Hub level
• Escalate any potential risk that could jeopardize the business

Digital/Intelligence

• Collaborate with colleagues within and across Domains, Hubs & S2P to identify and benchmark practices to identify areas of improvement
• Supports the deployment of the Procurement Digital roadmap within the geography
• Identifies means by which and undertakes benchmarking against other industries 
• Will work with their team for the deployment of any new tools and/or processes to be used by the Procurement team to support and improve the position of Sanofi on Dow Jones Sustainability Index (DJSI) or similar

About you

• Experience: 3 - 4 years working experience relevant to the position
• Prior procurement/organization Hub matrix working environment experience
• Soft and technical skills: Ability to manage across a country level with diverse business partners
• Ability to travel up to 10% of working time
• Knowledge of best-in-class Procurement techniques and processes
• Ability to influence across Operational, Management levels and across functions
• Solid competency in networking across various stakeholders to deliver successful outcomes
• Demonstrable skills in deploying change management initiatives
• Good communication skills with ability to adapt style and approach according to audience
• Analytical skills and ability to utilize tools/systems accordingly
• Ability to work independently with multitask approach
• Able to quickly assimilate new information/skills
• Holds a multicultural mindset 
• Demonstrates willingness and ability to challenge the status quo
• Role model in compliance and ethics
• Education: Degree from accredited college of university relevant to the position
• Languages: Fluent in English both spoken and written

Why choose us?

• Discover endless opportunities to grow your talent and drive your career, whether it’s through a promotion or lateral move, at home or internationally.
• You’ll be part of leading the first experiences a job seeker has with Sanofi and ensuring it is best-in-class and driving conversions.
• You’ll be part of a truly diverse cross-cultural team and can have real business impact.
• Flexible working policies, including up to 50% remote work.
• Private medical care, life and health insurance, and gender-neutral paid parental leave
• Colombia is one of Sanofi’s key locations for new talents, having a big footprint with the Bogota HUB and its best-in-class operation.
• Mexico and Argentina Play an instrumental part in creating best practice and innovation within our 3 vaccines production plants.

PursueProgress. Discover Extraordinary.

Progress doesn’t happen without people – people from different backgrounds, in different locations, doing different roles, all united by one thing: a desire to make miracles happen. You can be one of those people. Chasing change, embracing new ideas and exploring all the opportunities we have to offer. Let’s pursue progress. And let’s discover extraordinary together.

At Sanofi, we provide equal opportunities to all regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, or gender identity. 

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