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Baxter's products and therapies are found in almost every hospital worldwide, in clinics and in the home. For over 85 years, we have pioneered significant medical innovations that transform healthcare.
Together, we create a place where we are happy, successful and inspire each other. This is where you can do your best work.
Join us at the intersection of saving and sustaining lives—where your purpose accelerates our mission.
Baxter Medical Systems enables excellence in surgical procedures using modern medical technology. Our products help care teams achieve outstanding results in emergency and critical care. Digital systems are automated to allow for surgical staff and multidisciplinary care teams to work efficiently, and devices are needed to navigate processes, increase user convenience, and improve patient safety.
We are currently searching a Senior Project Manager Procurement (f/m/d)based in Munich.
SUMMARY:
The Senior Project Manager Procurement is responsible for ensuring implementation of material cost-saving opportunities within the specific segments they represent. This includes executing procurement strategies that achieve the company's cost-reduction objectives, and developing and maintaining strong relationships with internal product groups and business stakeholders including but not limited to R&D, Engineering, and Manufacturing.
A breadth of experience in these areas, as well as strong project management capabilities and the ability to collaborate and communicate effectively with a diverse group of stakeholders is of the utmost value, as well as a proven record of delivering results on behalf of a global organization.
ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:
1. Attain supplier resources to conduct the pre-feasibility study of MIP with internal resources. The scope may include from to request supplier samples for performing test, to organize communications between suppliers and plant teams, to ensure the supplier delivery pre-feasibility report on time.
2. Collaborate with Operational Excellence team to prioritize material MIPs and secure resources from different functional teams to determine a formal project.
3. Coordinate suppliers with manufacturing, Engineering, PDO, R&D, QA and RA et to ensure the projects execution readiness and delivery on target. Accountabilities include but not limited to
4. Confirm suppliers’ activities, timeline, resources, risk & opportunity etc
5. Identify and secure budget for supplier activities, manage the spending and timeline
6. Lead supplier interaction with internal SMEs (material, technology, quality, registration etc) to solve ad hoc problems and drive alignment mainly on quality spec and regulatory approach
7. Report procurement MIP project progress and escalate project risk to MIP execution team
8. Update Procurement MIP project in system and ensure the data accuracy
9. Develop and maintain relationships with suppliers and internal stakeholders
10. Ensure compliance with company policies and procedures and ethics in procurement standards
11. Follow up in ramp up phase with supplier after-project implementation
12. Deploy best practices and transfer knowledge across the MIP execution team
UNIQUE QUALIFICATIONS AND SKILLS:
13. Strong communication skills (with staff, peers, and upper management) and ability to develop rapport with other functional leaders inside Baxter and Supply base
14. Ability to do analysis of tradeoffs between business objectives - ability to think systemically
15. Embraces change, challenges status quo and makes recommendations for improvements to products and processes. Creates tools that help simplify job tasks and shares these with others
16. Requires the ability to influence the thinking of, or gain acceptance of, others in sensitive situations
17. Supervises, coaches, and develops others
18. Drives results through team leadership
19. Strong problem solving, negotiating, solutions orientation and presentation skill
20. Ability to communicate across multiple levels of the organization
21. Capable of analyzing and solving complex problems through innovative thought
22. Must be self-motivated, have good interpersonal skills, capable of analyzing and solving complex problems through innovative thought and experience.
23. Ability to manage multiple cross-functional teams simultaneously.
24. Maintain industry contacts and be involved in industry interest groups.
25. Proven track record of management/leadership effectiveness.
EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE:
26. Master degree or above
27. 5~10 years project management, planning and organisational skills with proactive and self-driven personality
28. Must have hands on experience implementing Lean Thinking, Lean Tools and Kaizen events to drive Lean improvements in Execution phase.
29. Must have experience in effective root cause problem solving
30. Demonstrate experience in the pharmaceutical and/or Medical device manufacturing
31. Strong personal accountability for results and integrity, eagerness to learn and continuously improve. Uncompromising dedication to quality, relentless focus on rapid and disciplined action, and respect for the diverse contributions of all.
32. Influencing, consultative and initiative capability
33. Negotiation, Conflict Resolution, Presentation Skills, Facilitation, Leadership, Effective communication skills
34. Strong personal accountability for results and integrity, eagerness to learn and continuously improve. Uncompromising dedication to quality, relentless focus on rapid and disciplined action, and respect for the diverse contributions of all.
What we offer you
As an internationally active company, we offer you professional training opportunities and fair remuneration with above-average social benefits, a company pension scheme, a share plan for employees, 30 days vacation plus special leave, and additional insurance is a matter of course, for us.
Baxter is committed to supporting the needs for flexibility in the workplace. We do so through our flexible workplace policy which includes a required minimum number of days a week onsite. This policy provides the benefits of connecting and collaborating in-person in support of our Mission. The flexible workplace policy is subject to local laws and legal requirements. At its discretion, Baxter may decide to adjust, suspend, or discontinue as business needs change.
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