About the role
Role Overview -
We are seeking an experienced Procurement Consulting professional with 10-15 years of experience supporting Pharmaceutical, Life Sciences, Technology and Healthcare clients. The ideal candidate will have deep expertise in strategic sourcing, contract negotiations, and procurement transformation, along with a strong track record of delivering cost optimization and value creation initiatives within a consulting environment.
Key Responsibilities -
- Lead end-to-end procurement, strategic sourcing, and transformation initiatives for Pharma, Life Sciences, and Healthcare clients, delivering measurable business value.
- Build and manage strategic supplier relationships, focusing on supplier performance, risk mitigation, contract compliance, and continuous improvement.
- Support business development: responding to RFPs, creating sales proposals, identifying leads, client demos, and presentations etc.
- Manage client relationships, self-driven, results oriented, strong leadership and exceptional communication skills
- Manage business process mapping, process re-engineering, and gap analysis, while ensuring best fit solution
- Recommend best practices to clients to streamline and standardize S2P processes.
- Lead commercial and contractual negotiations to secure optimal pricing, commercial terms, service levels, and business outcomes.
- Manage the contract lifecycle, including NDAs, MSAs, service agreements, and supplier contracts.
- Drive procurement excellence, business transformation, process re-engineering, and change management initiatives, while influencing and aligning key stakeholders.
- Develop and maintain strong client relationships through a self-driven, results-oriented approach, demonstrating leadership and exceptional communication skills.
Required Experience -
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10-15 years of experience in Procurement or Procurement Consulting.
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Strong domain expertise in Pharmaceuticals, Life Sciences, Technology, Healthcare Services, or Healthcare Technology.
Preferred Qualifications -
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Experience with procurement platforms such as SAP Ariba, Coupa, Oracle Procurement, SAP MM, Jaggaer, or similar tools.
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Strong analytical, financial modeling, communication, and client-facing consulting skills.