Planet Pharma | Principal Strategic Sourcing Specialist

2 weeks ago


tempe, United States Planet Pharma Full time

Onsite - Tempe, AZ

$53- $67.50 per hr

8 month extendable CONTRACT


MUST HAVE:

  • Bachelors degree required
  • 7+ years of sourcing experience
  • SAP experience
  • Pharma, biotech or medical device industry experience preferred


A Day in the Life

In this role, you will participate and/or lead Sourcing strategic activities, especially those involving product life cycle and supplier management including but not limited to: product/part phase in-phase, Last time buy/Strategic and excess & obsolete processes, local sourcing related initiatives, supplier delivery performance and inventory management. You will also support commodity management in pricing, terms & conditions, and quality agreements with key strategic suppliers.


You will:

  • Maintain and promote strong relationships with Suppliers, Operations Scheduling, Supply Network Planning, Supplier Quality Engineering, Manufacturing, Finance, Operations Quality, Category Management and any other internal customers;
  • Attend in-plant production meetings (Tier Reviews) - report status of key material issues/updates;
  • Participate in Tier Escalation Meetings with Functional and Site Leaders;
  • Develop and/or use existing tools/process (like Shortage Reports and/Clear2Build) to identify future component shortage risk and mitigate;
  • Communicate effectively unmitigated component shortages to stakeholders to ensure Operational mitigations are implemented to minimize Operations impact;
  • Attend Master Production Schedule (MPS) consensus meeting and communicate changes to Suppliers;
  • Monitor Strategic Inventory Purchases (SIP) / Last Time Buys (LTB) management and maintain tracking files;
  • Provide updates on Purchase Price Variance report;
  • Provide inventory reserve file updates;
  • Meet with shared services (Engineer / NPD), Material / Resin, Tooling Management to track completion of Projects that ensure Supply Continuity;
  • Support audits: Initiate supplier selection related audits (Contact/schedule) & site support for regulatory body audits;
  • Manage or support supplier capacity management initiatives to meet long term Requirements;
  • Manage and effectively communicate critical and on going delivery issues
  • Supports standard cost setting
  • Performs special projects as assigned including but not limited to: new product introductions, the coordination of phase out activities and material cost reduction initiatives (PPV);
  • Support excess and obsolescence process and raw material disposition at sites as needed;
  • Provide guidance on site prioritization on conflicting situations;
  • Attend/provide feedback for Supplier Relationship Management meetings (as applicable);
  • Perform special projects as assigned including but not limited to: Lifecycle Management, supports material cost reduction initiatives;
  • Participate in Cash Flow Initiatives
  • Create and present monthly and quarterly Procurement key performance indicator reviews;
  • Lead periodic Supplier Performance meetings, including content/scorecard development;
  • If applicable, liaison with the Category Management in the development of Category strategies, inputs and discussions about supplier performance scorecard and performance reviews (Quarterly Business Reviews).



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