Additional Locations: Turkey-Istanbul
Diversity - Innovation - Caring - Global Collaboration - Winning Spirit - High Performance
At Boston Scientific, well give you the opportunity to harness all thats within you by working in teams of diverse and high-performing employees, tackling some of the most important health industry challenges. With access to the latest tools, information and training, well help you in advancing your skills and career. Here, youll be supported in progressing whatever your ambitions.
About The Role
The purpose of this role is to create connections and work closely with business owners/stakeholders in order to initiate and drive new sourcing/procurement projects at different Boston Scientific offices all around GEM region. You will be a part of a strong collaborative team, you will be responsible for sourcing/procurement activities where successful interaction with both internal stakeholders and suppliers will be essential.
Your Responsibilities Will Include
- Supporting the Procurement Management process of Indirect goods and services in EMEA Region
- Supporting company business for assigned areas in EMEA with initial focus on discretionary spend
- Driving cost reductions to meet business targets
- Supporting the end users with Procurement analysis and selection of suppliers
- Maintaining and support vendor contracts and databases
- Supporting the facilitation of new contract development and reconstruct sub-optimal, existing contracts
- Supporting the development of policies and procedures for the operation of procurement activities
- Monitoring the cost, schedule and performance aspects of major sub-contracts
- Assuring cost modelling and business cases
- Providing guidance to business stakeholders to achieve goals in accordance with established policies
- Running Sourcing events: RFQ, RFP, RFI and Auctions
- Collaborating closely with Category Managers and support with Sourcing Projects, Investigation to implementation
- Conducting benchmarking projects and analysis to determine best in class opportunities
- Reporting accomplishments and communicate initiatives and other issues to leadership and within EMEA Business Team
- Organizing and participate in Supplier Business Reviews
- Promoting usage of Preferred Vendors
- Ensuring compliance with the Boston Scientific Quality System and Approved Vendor List
- Negotiating favourable payment terms with suppliers
What are we looking for in you
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience
- Min 5 years experience within Sourcing/Procurement functions
- Excellent communication and presentation skills and the ability to work well with others
- Must be able to Draft and Red-line contracts
- Must be able to manage and run a Sourcing event end-to-end
- IT systems knowledge in SAP, Ariba and MS Office
- Strong analytical skills for data analysis and reporting
- Strong stakeholder management skills
- Market and legal knowledge required in addition to procurement skills
- Ability to work independently, to initiate savings strategies and to close tasks, projects and programs efficiently
- Fluent in English and preferably fluent in one of the GEM region languages
- Available to travel within the GEM region.
Requisition ID: 591842
As a leader in medical science for more than 40 years, we are committed to solving the challenges that matter most united by a deep caring for human life. Our mission to advance science for life is about transforming lives through innovative medical solutions that improve patient lives, create value for our customers, and support our employees and the communities in which we operate. Now more than ever, we have a responsibility to apply those values to everything we do as a global business and as a global corporate citizen.
So, choosing a career with Boston Scientific (NYSE: BSX) isnt just business, its personal. And if youre a natural problem-solver with the imagination, determination, and spirit to make a meaningful difference to people worldwide, we encourage you to apply and look forward to connecting with you!
