Buyer - Japanese speaker

• Support the development of the Category Strategy and the Annual Category Plan, as required by the Global Category Lead.
• Implement sourcing business plan for area of responsibility -Deploy actions within categories, support the development of Category targets, and deliver savings targets where appropriate -Support the aggregation of all Category level data across Divisions to inform the top-down target setting process.
• Support the collection of supplier, market, Category and internal business information at both the Category and sub-category levels.
• Assist the coordination of materials for supplier segmentation processes, as defined by the Novartis Supplier Performance and Innovation Framework and directed by the Global Category Lead.
• Supports the tracking and documentation of risk and issue management for the category.
• Facilitate contract management and execution (Cross-Divisional/Pharma spend <$12m NCH/SDZ/NVD/NIBR spend <$10 m).
• Understand applied practice, concepts and process in one or more procurement disciplines (e.g. category management,negotiation, contracts, systems and processes, project or information management).
• Reporting of technical complaints / adverse events / special case scenarios related to Novartis products within 24 hours of receipt -Distribution of marketing samples (where applicable)

• Organization Scope; Scale and Complexity.
• Functional Breadth.
• Major Change.
• Collaborating across boundaries.
• Representing the organization.
• Operations Management and Execution.

• Internal And External Customer Needs Analysis & Satisfaction Studies.
• Negotiating.
• Root Cause Analysis And Problem-Solving.
• Vendor Management.

• English and Japanese language (JLPT N1)

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