Sr Procurement Manager (External Manufacturing Services) @ Roche

At Roche you can show up as yourself, embraced for the unique qualities you bring. Our culture encourages personal expression, open dialogue, and genuine connections,  where you are valued, accepted and respected for who you are, allowing you to thrive both personally and professionally. This is how we aim to prevent, stop and cure diseases and ensure everyone has access to healthcare today and for generations to come. Join Roche, where every voice matters.

The Position

Senior Procurement Manager - External Manufacturing

A healthier future. It’s what drives us to innovate. To continuously advance science and ensure everyone has access to the healthcare they need today and for generations to come. Creating a world where we all have more time with the people we love. That’s what makes us Roche.

Healthcare is evolving, and Global Procurement is responding by continuously striving for the highest possible performance, taking innovative and strategic approaches to business and supplier partnerships.  Global Procurement proactively manages the entire supplier ecosystem, making a vital contribution to improving health outcomes, reducing costs for patients and global healthcare systems, and ensuring that Roche continues doing now what patients need next.

The Opportunity :

This role sits within the Materials, Manufacturing & CAPEX Procurement Delivery group, which covers the core procurement activities from category management, strategic and operational sourcing, supplier management, contracting, content strategy definition, and execution. The Materials, Manufacturing & CAPEX Procurement Delivery group comprises many communities grouping categories of the same value chain or having commonality, including Raw Materials, Logistics, External Manufacturing, and Engineering. The communities are key enablers of strong category expertise while allowing flexibility in the procurement delivery response to the evolving needs of our customers.

As a Senior Procurement Manager in External Manufacturing (CDMO Procurement), you will bring analytical thinking, planning, execution, and focus to the procurement sourcing and delivery capability area. Using your specialized knowledge and in-depth expertise in a specific category or spend areas and procurement overall, you will proactively identify and drive strategies and approaches for managing and sourcing third party spend requirements. You can also play the role of Category strategy owner in charge of driving, coordinating and signing the category strategy.

You will collaborate with internal procurement (such as Customer Excellence, Insights, Analytics, Contracting, etc.) and business stakeholders to build and implement comprehensive category sourcing and spend management strategies that are aligned to business needs and functional objectives.

You will work closely with other team members, as a peer coach, project, or workstream lead to identify opportunities to aggregate customer demand, drive buying channel automation, deliver on day-to day activities, and provide capacity, expertise, and oversight to productivity and other customer oriented projects / solutions.

What you get :

• Full-time employment based on an employment contract.
• Annual bonus payment based on your performance.
• Dedicated training budget (training, certifications, conferences, diversified career paths etc.).
• Recharge Fridays (2 Fridays off per quarter available).
• Take time Program (up to 3 months of leave to use for any purpose).
• Vacation subsidy available.
• Flex Location (possibility to perform our work from different places in the world for a certain period of time).
• Take Time for Charity (additional paid leave of maximum 2 weeks to engage in the charity action of your choice).
• Private healthcare (LuxMed packages), group life insurance (UNUM) and Multisport.
• Stock share purchase additions.
• Yearly sales of company laptops and cars and many more!

Note : Relocation benefits are not available for this posting.

Who you are :

At Roche you can show up as yourself, embraced for the unique qualities you bring. Our culture encourages personal expression, open dialogue, and genuine connections,  where you are valued, accepted and respected for who you are, allowing you to thrive both personally and professionally. This is how we aim to prevent, stop and cure diseases and ensure everyone has access to healthcare today and for generations to come. Join Roche, where every voice matters.

The Position

Senior Procurement Manager - External Manufacturing

A healthier future. It’s what drives us to innovate. To continuously advance science and ensure everyone has access to the healthcare they need today and for generations to come. Creating a world where we all have more time with the people we love. That’s what makes us Roche.

Healthcare is evolving, and Global Procurement is responding by continuously striving for the highest possible performance, taking innovative and strategic approaches to business and supplier partnerships.  Global Procurement proactively manages the entire supplier ecosystem, making a vital contribution to improving health outcomes, reducing costs for patients and global healthcare systems, and ensuring that Roche continues doing now what patients need next.

The Opportunity :

This role sits within the Materials, Manufacturing & CAPEX Procurement Delivery group, which covers the core procurement activities from category management, strategic and operational sourcing, supplier management, contracting, content strategy definition, and execution. The Materials, Manufacturing & CAPEX Procurement Delivery group comprises many communities grouping categories of the same value chain or having commonality, including Raw Materials, Logistics, External Manufacturing, and Engineering. The communities are key enablers of strong category expertise while allowing flexibility in the procurement delivery response to the evolving needs of our customers.

As a Senior Procurement Manager in External Manufacturing (CDMO Procurement), you will bring analytical thinking, planning, execution, and focus to the procurement sourcing and delivery capability area. Using your specialized knowledge and in-depth expertise in a specific category or spend areas and procurement overall, you will proactively identify and drive strategies and approaches for managing and sourcing third party spend requirements. You can also play the role of Category strategy owner in charge of driving, coordinating and signing the category strategy.

You will collaborate with internal procurement (such as Customer Excellence, Insights, Analytics, Contracting, etc.) and business stakeholders to build and implement comprehensive category sourcing and spend management strategies that are aligned to business needs and functional objectives.

You will work closely with other team members, as a peer coach, project, or workstream lead to identify opportunities to aggregate customer demand, drive buying channel automation, deliver on day-to day activities, and provide capacity, expertise, and oversight to productivity and other customer oriented projects / solutions.

What you get :

Note : Relocation benefits are not available for this posting.

You are a Category and sourcing subject matter expert in External Manufacturing conducting market and internal analysis to develop strategies, best practices, and guidance on tactical plans for how Roche should source and negotiate for third party goods and services in order to satisfy stakeholder requirements and maximize the value for Roche., You are a Procurement delivery practitioner delivering and executing sourcing strategies and major initiatives by leveraging spend, category know-how, robust sourcing, negotiation, contracting, supplier management methodologies and project management skills, and / or supporting team members by coaching them and enhancing their skills and knowledge., You develop content and automation, translating sourcing strategy into content and automated buying channels guidelines, best practices and communication materials that improve business adoption, satisfaction, and overall efficiency. ] Requirements : Degree, Project management Additionally : Annual bonus, Private healthcare, Training budget, Conference budget, Work-life balance, Sport subscription, Recharge Fridays, Take time Program, International projects, Gym, Canteen, Bike parking, Playroom, Free parking, In-house trainings, No dress code, Modern office.