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Whitehouse Station Procurement Director - IT Transformation Job ...

Procurement Director - IT Transformation-COM000197

Description

Merck is a global health care leader with a diversified portfolio of prescription medicines, vaccines and consumer health products, as well as animal health products. Today, we are building a new kind of healthcare company ? one that is ready to help create a healthier future for all of us.

Our ability to excel depends on the integrity, knowledge, imagination, skill, diversity and teamwork of people like you. To this end, we strive to create an environment of mutual respect, encouragement and teamwork. As part of our global team, you?ll have the opportunity to collaborate with talented and dedicated colleagues while developing and expanding your career.

The Procurement Director of IT Transformation will lead major projects across IT, driving both sourcing and technology led transformation. The lead will have a strong IT background across hardware, software, outsourcing, mobility, cloud, big data and new emergent technologies. The lead will take on a business partnering role, acting as a key interface to IT partners. The lead will develop and maintain strong relationships with key leaders across the IT function and will shape the relationships with key strategic suppliers ensuring alignment between business strategy and sourcing execution. The role reports to the Executive Director of Global IT Procurement.

Primary activities include, but are not limited to:

1. Leadership - As a key leader of a category of spend, he/she will be responsible for the development and implementation of the sourcing strategy, ensuring alignment, compliance and delivery of required business performance.
2. Procurement Leadership - Provide the leadership, strategy and policy for the category, building a high performance engagement model with the business and regions.
3. Organizational Development ? Supports the building of a core team of high quality procurement professionals who have direct responsibility for sourcing and projects.
4. Process - Realize sourcing management, supplier value management, risk management and supplier diversity as core sustainable processes and enablers of delivery.
5. Performance - Deliver ongoing savings as required, as well as meeting the stakeholder business requirements.
6. Relationships - Build outstanding relationships with stakeholders which are tailored to meeting their business needs.
7. Change Management - Adopt high quality change practices with customers and stakeholders. Building and implementing an organization which is sustainable and acting as a personal champion of the Merck Leadership Standards.
8. Global - Ensure that the approach adopted is aligned with and supports the Merck global procurement strategy, Global Category Management and Ways of Working.
9. Diversity - Actively supports diversity, both within Merck and externally, growing relationships and spend with our Diverse Suppliers.
10. Supplier Value Management - Implements supplier value management with the key suppliers in this category to foster innovation, manage supplier performance, establish a Governance Model and ensure continuous improvement.

Qualifications

*LI-AS2

Educational Requirements:

? Bachelor?s Degree

? Graduate degree preferred.

Experience Required:

? 10 years procurement, business management or IT specific experience.

? Technical ? A strong background and subject matter expertise of IT (Software, Hardware, Services), outsourcing and externalization of IT.

Our employees are the key to our company?s success. We demonstrate our commitment to our employees by offering a competitive and valuable rewards program. Merck?s benefits are designed to support the wide range of goals, needs and lifestyles of our employees, and many of the people that matter the most in their lives.

Search Firm Representatives - Please read carefully:

Merck is not accepting unsolicited assistance from search firms for this employment opportunity. Please, no phone calls or emails. All resumes ted by search firms to any employee at Merck via-email, the Internet or in any form and/or method without a valid written search agreement in place for this position will be deemed the sole property of Merck. No fee will be paid in the event the candidate is hired by Merck as a result of the referral or through other means.

Merck is an equal opportunity employer, M/F/D/V ? proudly embracing diversity in all of its manifestations.
Former Military, Transitioning Service Members, National Guard & Reserves - We value your past and present service.

Job: Commodity Procurement

Job Title: Dir, Procurement

Primary Location: NA-US-NJ-Whitehouse Station

Employee Status: Regular

Travel: Yes, 15 % of the Time

Number of Openings: 1

Shift (if applicable): 1st

Hazardous Materials
: No


Nearest Major Market: New Jersey
Job Segments: Manager, Procurement, Risk Management, Cloud, Buyer, Management, Operations, Finance, Technology

Source: http://jobs.merck.com/job/Whitehouse-Station-Procurement-Director-IT-Transformation-Job-NJ-08889/2779358/?utm_source=J2WRSS&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=J2W_RSS

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