Global Category Manager - Software

Join our diverse and global Procurement team at AstraZeneca, where your unique experiences and insights are valued. In this role, you will develop strategic plans for the entire spend area within AstraZeneca or Region, manage customer and supplier relationships, and oversee the implementation of category plans. You will be accountable for a spend category or market across a region or the whole of AstraZeneca, leading both demand and supply side activities.

Accountabilities:
As a Global Category Manager, you will be responsible for the IT Software category, including the negotiation of large enterprise software agreements and partnering with the Global IT organization. You will support the Director/Associate Director in the development of long-term strategic plans and manage strategic relationships. You will work with relevant Director/Associate Director(s) to ensure a fully integrated and customer-aligned AZ-wide category plan. You will also coordinate the introduction of new and modified products and services with appropriate departments, analyze and resolve issues raised in procurement audit reports, advise on contracts and agreements for the supply of complex, emerging technologies and services with new and existing suppliers, and develop, evaluate or manage internal and external relationships with suppliers and other cross-functional teams.

Essential Skills/Experience:
• Degree level or equivalent qualifications
• Significant experience in similar environment at a management level
• Sound understanding of Safety, Health and Environment
• Project management, change management and people management skills
• Good working knowledge of the pharmaceutical industry
• Technical expertise in at least one Procurement area, and competence in several others
• Communication skills and ability to influence others
• Comfort with risk and ambiguous situations

DesirableSkills/Experience:
• Experience in line management, technical support and project management

When we put unexpected teams in the same room, we unleash bold thinking with the power to inspire life-changing medicines. In-person working gives us the platform we need to connect, work at pace and challenge perceptions. That's why we work, on average, a minimum of three days per week from the office. But that doesn't mean we're not flexible. We balance the expectation of being in the office while respecting individual flexibility. Join us in our unique and ambitious world.

Why AstraZeneca?
At AstraZeneca, we're an international team that celebrates diversity of experience, skills and ways of working. We are adaptable, agile, curious, and always ready to step outside of our comfort zone in pursuit of continuous improvement. We work across all areas of the business, owning our role as custodian and protector of AstraZeneca's cost and the value we deliver. We aspire to achieve our objectives by fusing the need to deliver sustainable growth, lead supplier collaboration, protect the planet and achieve business agility. Our work has the potential to change lives. Everything we do aims to better serve and deliver for patients. This is your chance to play a part in impacting patients' lives and help us fulfill our purpose: pushing the boundaries of science to deliver life-changing medicines.

Ready to make a difference? Apply now to join our team!