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Strategic Sourcing Manager

Role overview

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's or Master's Degree or equivalent
  • Typically, at least 6+ years relevant experience
  • Experience in procurement/supplier management is a plus
  • Fluency in English and local language

Responsibilities

  • Manage and maintain Service Providers and Service Contractors business relationships
  • Ensure legal compliance and alignment with agreed strategy
  • Analyze suppliers' performance and conduct regular evaluation reviews
  • Conduct Service Supplier selection and negotiations for best Service Level Agreement

Key facts

Other skills

  • Negotiation
  • Communication
  • Multitasking

About the company

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Agilent Technologies

Biotechnology

Agilent customers are finding new ways to treat cancer, ensure food, water, air, and medicine quality and safety, discover new drug treatments, research infectious diseases, and create alternative energy solutions for a greener planet. From start to finish, we have them covered with our vast product solutions and services portfolio. Around the world, Agilent’s people bring innovations, technologies, and services to the forefront of science. Our teams design and manufacture a wide array of advanced analytical, research, and diagnostic solutions and tools for use inside and outside laboratories. Additionally, the unique expertise of Agilent’s CrossLab and technical teams provides valuable insight and support to our customers, helping them fully optimize their laboratories and resources to better focus on what's important: bringing great science to life. In fiscal 2022, Agilent Technologies generated revenue of (US) $6.85 billion.

Company details

Company typeXLarge
IndustryBiotechnology
Company size10001

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Job description

Job Description

Job Description:

Agilent inspires and supports discoveries that advance the quality of life. We provide life science, diagnostic and applied market laboratories worldwide with instruments, services, consumables, applications and expertise. Agilent enables customers to gain the answers and insights they seek -- so they can do what they do best: improve the world around us. Information about Agilent is available at www.agilent.com.

Taking the lead to manage the negotiation and business relationships development with external Service Supplier companies you build effective and profitable agreements transforming broad concepts into structured Strategic Services Suppliers Management Program.

You are a key player to contribute to the solution design of local/multi-national and multi-partner projects involving Agilent partnership with Service Supplier companies for complex, high impact client agreements.

Furthermore, you will support the program managers to provide consistent and up to date program processes, documentation, trainings, contracts & exhibits in assigned territory for Strategic Service Sourcing, ASP-Management.

Your key responsibilities:

- Accountable for managing and maintaining Service Providers and Service Contractors business
   relationships

- Ensure full legal compliance and alignment with Region, Sub Region or Country agreed strategy.

- Analyze suppliers' performance and conduct regular suppliers' evaluation reviews, involving Service
Management as required.

- Conduct Service Supplier selection and negotiations to assure best Service Level Agreement and
   financial margin improvements.

- Contribute to develop suppliers sourcing strategy, priorities, plans for the defined Sub-Region or
   countries.

- Implement service sourcing strategy to ensure an effective, coherent & consistent service suppliers'
   program.

- Management of service suppliers program processes, documentation, data, contracts & exhibits in
   assigned territory.

- Work closely with Regional and Country legal/compliance teams, act as local contact to ensure the
   Service Suppliers working legal/compliance practices are up to date, communicated and in place.

- Contribute to competitive Supplier tender events at all levels of complexity, work with Service Sales
   and Project Managers, maintain service providers' services/products/prices data.

- Work closely with Customer Contact Center to assure the Service Suppliers information is available
   to manage customers' calls.

- Ensure good co-operation and collaboration with Service Managers.

The role will involve up to 25 % travelling.

Qualifications

We are looking for an engaging individual with a real passion for customer satisfaction and the following:

- Bachelor's or Master's Degree or equivalent.

- Typically, at least 6+ years relevant experience for entry to this level.

- Experience in procurement / supplier management is plus

- Fluency in English and local language 

- On a personal level, you are a customer focused, solution oriented and business savvy. You also
   have great communications skills to interact with a lot of stakeholder and are able to multitask to
   work with different projects concurrently.

Additional Details

This job has a full time weekly schedule. It includes the option to work remotely.

Our pay ranges are determined by role, level, and location. Within the range, individual pay is determined by work location and additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. During the hiring process, a recruiter can share more about the specific pay range for a preferred location. Pay and benefit information by country are available at: https://careers.agilent.com/locations

Agilent Technologies Inc. is an equal opportunity employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, disability or any other protected categories under all applicable laws.

Travel Required:

25% of the Time

Shift:

Day

Duration:

No End Date

Job Function:

Services & Support

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