POSITION PURPOSE
Lead the diverse Source-to-Pay (S2P) Sourcing Support team primarily responsible for the procurement sourcing activities at Bayer. This includes managing all required goods and services in alignment with the agreed global category strategies and sourcing approaches.
Key responsibilities include leading the team responsible for identifying and evaluating supply sources, supporting the sourcing activities, price updates to contracts and ensuring cost-efficient, high-quality, and timely procurement while supporting business needs. The job holder plays a central role in building the team for the future, upskilling them, drive a continuous improvement culture, coach and develop the team to create a psychological safe environment.
Collaboration with stakeholders and suppliers is also a critical aspect, ensuring alignment with strategic goals and fostering strong relationships that enhance sourcing performance.
KEY WORKING RELATIONS:
- Procurement Enablement, Category Managers, Regional Managers, Related Communities of Practice
- GBS Source to Pay - Ordering, Content Management, Country Partners
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Procurement external:
Budget Owners, Users Business stakeholders,
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Bayer external:
Key, as well as selected base suppliers
ROLE AND RESPONSIBILITIES:
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Demonstrates Leadership and DSO behaviors:
- Focus on outcomes: Define and deliver the highest impact outcomes for farmers, patients, consumers, and stakeholders
- Be your best self and include others: Respect differences, embrace inclusion, and show up as your best self
- Collaborate with accountability: Collaborate and hold yourself and others accountable, in and across teams
- Co-create for the customers: Be close to the customer and co-create solutions for their needs
- Act, learn fast, and evolve: Work in 90-day-cycles, learn quickly, and continually develop
- Is accountable for ensuring the team completes all the Sourcing Support activities like Price Updates, PR Approval, System Content Management and handling queries.
- Maintains oversight and proactively communicates with Procurement Category teams and Internal Source to Pay teams.
- Demonstrate transformative mindset, Identify process gaps, inefficiencies and create a roadmap to integrate activities enabling Easy Buy vision
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Stakeholder Engagement Supplier Management
- Understands business needs and engages with global/regional and local stakeholders to meet their priorities and requirements
- Defines the Procurement value add for the business stakeholder community and provides Procurement procedural know-how, guidance, and governance
- Provides country-specific market intelligence to mitigate supply risk, gain competitive advantage, and make better business decisions
- Manage Supplier interactions as per agrees procedures
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Team Engagement and Development
- Offer opportunities for professional development through workshops, training, and mentoring
- Assign tasks that align with team members strengths and career aspirations.
- Set and communicate a clear vision and objectives for the team (Span15-25 FTEs)
- Create an environment that promotes psychological safety and open discussions
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Focus on Digitalization AI
- Ensure working knowledge of AI technology
- Identify areas where AI/Digital tools can be implemented
- Create a culture of experimenting with AI and making the team future ready.
WHO YOU ARE:
- Bachelor s or Master s degree in science, engineering, or business management.
- Extensive experience in procurement, sourcing methodologies, and process optimization.
- At least 5-10 years in leadership roles (team lead, cluster lead, or operations manager equivalent), with a proven track record in leading large, complex teams and transformation projects.
- Strong stakeholder engagement, collaboration, influencing, and communication skills.
- Ability to work effectively in a global and virtual environment.
- Strategic mindset, financial acumen, and analytical decision-making skills.
- Strong market understanding and professional network.
- Digital fluency and working knowledge of AI.
- Commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion.
