Senior Regional Category Manager Patient Support Services

**Summary**:
Location: Mexico City #Hybrid
About the Role:
Lead the purchasing organization for the category delivering maximum benefit from Global, Regional and local sourcing. Will lead and support staff who provide purchasing support and expertise to all internal customers, by leveraging competitive advantage with all of our suppliers, ensure Novartis achieves the best ultimate cost.
**About the Role**:
**Major accountabilities**:
- Prepare an annual purchasing strategy for of a small division or BU or country /region and ensure it is aligned to Global Procurement Strategies.
- Direct the development of annual Procurement business plans and tactical plans in line with agreed sourcing strategy, ensuring full alignment with divisional and group targets, and set stretch targets for the team, benchmarking versus best in class external organizations, and measure achievement of objectives against KPIs.
- Direct the identification of sourcing strategies (preferred s...