Company Description

AbbVie's mission is to discover and deliver innovative medicines and solutions that solve serious health issues today and address the medical challenges of tomorrow. We strive to have a remarkable impact on people's lives across several key therapeutic areas – immunology, oncology, neuroscience, and eye care – and products and services in our Allergan Aesthetics portfolio. For more information about AbbVie, please visit us at www.abbvie.com. Follow @abbvie on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube and LinkedIn.

Job Description

The Purchasing Specialist II works within the Purchasing & Supplier Management (PSM), which provides sourcing direction to multiple functional areas within the company. The role supports the Purchasing Manager and is responsible for implementing, optimizing and ensuring the delivery of approved category strategies at the site in concert with the Corporation’s overall strategies. The position’s objective is to coordinate AbbVie’s site spend and local suppliers to obtain the maximum value for the money spent measured through the delivery of cost savings.

• Work with the Purchasing Manager to optimize related areas of spend for procurement activities and/or the sourcing process.
• Implement short term and long term cost reduction strategies established by management and work with high ethical standard, in compliance with the law and the AbbVie policies and procedures.
• Develop supplier base to expand business, improve financials, reduce in-house / total costs, improve quality (customer satisfaction), customer relations, and on-time deliveries
• Identify potential vendors and implement strategy: RFP / RFI / RFQ / Pricing Auction. Responsible for running local tenders, aligned with direction from Purchasing Manager and respective Category Manager
• Develop and write all sourcing event documents, using existing templates and ensure compliance with relevant policies, procedures and regulations
• Improve supplier service levels by integrating agreed Key Performance Indicators (KPI). Secures financial / saving reports
• Perform and collect due diligence information required for evaluating and approving new suppliers, in line with the Preferred Supplier Networks
• Data analysis and administrative support for purchasing projects and supplier management (supplier metrics and research, master data, market basket analysis, pricing analysis, monthly/quarterly reporting of KPI’s, savings reporting)
• May partner with legal to draft contracts while keeping close contact with respective suppliers to ensure timely completion and execution of agreements. Must leverage data from multiple sources and systems to support the negotiation process.
• Work in partnership with sourcing colleagues to negotiate or renegotiate deals and contracts with supplier to include pricing and delivery schedules, while ensuring supplier risk management and compliance guidelines and protocols are followed.

Qualifications

• Required:
  Bachelor’s degree or 4 years equivalent work experience
• Required:
  A minimum of 3 years of procurement/negotiations experience in purchasing preferably but not limited to Pharmaceutical.
• Required:
  Strong knowledge of MS Excel, PowerPoint, Word and Outlook.
  Strong experience with writing RFX’s.
  Solid experience conducting vendor negotiations.
• Desired:
  Ability to lead communication strategy to all team members, stakeholders, management, and suppliers

Additional Information

AbbVie is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to operating with integrity, driving innovation, transforming lives, serving our community and embracing diversity and inclusion. It is AbbVie’s policy to employ qualified persons of the greatest ability without discrimination against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex (including pregnancy), physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, marital status, status as a protected veteran, or any other legally protected group status.

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