Associate Director, Purchasing

Manage all aspects of Purchasing initiatives across different business functions to realize benefits. Ensure adherence to the IQVIA Transactional corporate purchasing policy which encourages vendor competition.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Manage staff, if applicable based on resourcing requirements related to the complexity of the category or function assigned, in accordance with organization’s policies and applicable legislation. Responsibilities include planning, assigning, and directing work; appraising performance and guiding professional development; rewarding and disciplining employees; addressing employee relations issues and resolving problems. Approve actions on human resources matters, including salary administration.
• If applicable, appropriately handle personnel issues, conflict management, define goals that increase knowledge and skills of staff, and define staff expectations, consulting and taking advice where necessary.
• May contribute to discussions on implementation of purchasing strategy on a regional basis and implement objectives, as appropriate. Ensure staff have a consistent understanding and positive impression of business strategy for regional and global objectives.
• Provide leadership and management of purchasing projects from conception through deployment. Establish project budgets, resource plans, milestones, tracking metrics, and success measures.
• Extract spend data from accounts payable or other databases and prepare spend analysis by category in various formats to highlight potential opportunities.
• Extract spend files from vendors to create baselines spend for key purchasing categories.
• Prepare and present purchasing recommendations to purchasing management and stakeholders.
• Benchmark and validate opportunities by Requests for Information, and prepare and issue competitive Requests for Proposals.
• Build relationships with internal stakeholders to identify purchasing opportunities and programs from business plans.
• Work with stakeholders to manage vendor relationships using agreed scorecard methodology where applicable to drive continuous improvement (price, service levels, new ideas etc.).
• Create purchasing plans, priorities, change programs and agree and implement vendor management programs.