The Procurement Manager is responsible for establishing and managing direct and indirect goods and services for Hopewell site with complete management of supplier relationships. The role will lead by coordinating with various functions to ensure seamless purchasing operations in the ERP environment (SAP S/4Hana) and ensure smooth compliant Procure to Pay and Contract to Pay processes are followed.

Essential Functions of The Job:

• Responsible for following global Procurement processes and install local purchasing activities in the Procure to Pay process. This includes both Direct and Indirect purchasing responsibilities.
• Support Hopewell site project start up including support of Plant Manager, Global Procurement Project Lead, engineers, Quality Control, and MST departments.
• Hopewell site Business Partnering to support CAPEX project and enable business growth.
• Support Plant Service Procurement Site Lead to manage S2P activities for Hopewell CAPEX project and ensure process compliance and deliver financial excellence
• Support CAPEX project change management and supplier performance management
• Review future site start up BOM requirements and explore local US sources of supply for various raw materials categories for large molecule bioproduction.
• Establish clear and precise communications with global business partners across all relevant departments to ensure Hopewell site activities are conducted in time and deliverables are aligned with key stakeholders.
• Ensure all relevant purchasing activities using SAP and/or Ariba are done in accordance with S&OP, production plan, and MRP. Be a Key User in the SAP implementation project and drive toward implementation
• Engage key stakeholders early in local sourcing processes to ensure Procurement is involved upstream in sourcing decisions via a “seat at the table” concept.
• Promote supplier relationship management (SRM) with key and critical suppliers in both direct and indirect areas of Procurement.
• Establish periodic business and quality reviews (BQR) with key suppliers including working with Global Category Leads (GCL) to review ongoing supplier delivery performance, business scorecard, quality scorecard, and technical process improvements.
• Contract management including but not limited to negotiation and tracking etc. To provide strong supports for key/high value procurement projects. Ensure that the company is in the position with most competitive commercial and service terms.
• Continuing to optimize key performance indictors including but not limited to reducing costs, improving payment cycle, keeping a proper lead time and improving after-sale services, etc.
• Generate and track TCO savings achievements according to procurement annual goals and policy. Including tracking both cost reduction and cost avoidance savings per definitions.
• Ensure periodic E&O analysis is performed with Planning and business partners to monitor raw materials scrap level for continuous improvement.
• Build strong partnership with key suppliers based on supplier criticality categories and reduce risks in assurance of supply and quality

Qualifications:

• Bachelors degree with 5+ years of experience, or Masters with 4+ years of experience
• procurement
• contract management
• cost reduction experience
• inventory
• SAP
• GMP environment is a plus