Procurement Business Partner (Gobernador Juan E. Martinez)

**Procurement Business Partner**
- _ Location: Buenos Aires,_
- About the job_

Ready to push the limits of what’s possible? Join Sanofi in one of our corporate functions and you can play a vital part in the performance of our entire business while helping to make an impact on millions around the world. As **Procurement Business Partner**within our procurement team.

The Procurement Business Partner is an agile, self-driven leader and motivated individual taking ownership of the country, supporting in both COGs and indirect áreas, and hub coordination regardless of reporting structure constructs. They are the face of Procurement at country/Hub level, Process owner, an expert responsible to ensure communication, alignment, efficiency, delivery, and connection within the MCO and Procurement Domains along with key business partners and Hub users.

**Main responsibilities**: **Operational Excellence**
- Provides feedback on global strategies to be consolidated in voice of geography communication & helps drive strategy implementation at Country and Hub level
- Maintains routine Country checks to ensure knowledge of and movement in alignment with the Company strategy
- Establishes routine Hub reviews to ensure One Sanofi/One Procurement approach, collaborates with Hub teams along with Domains and key business partners to ensure efficiency, delivery and the best user experience
- Works with Country Finance BPs, local commercial leads, S2P colleagues and local councils to understand, confirm and support procurement pipeline with integration into budgetary process, including the Hub Opex consolidation and validation
- Develops, in collaboration with COGS team, business partnership with M&S; site stakeholders (Supply Chain, Finance, Manufacturing, Technical teams, Quality, SMS,)
- Collaborate with Procurement Transformation & Excellence function to bring external perspectives, good/best practices & KPIs into Sanofi/Procurement Country and Hub
- Establishes and overseas means by which to monitor Progress on key initiatives within the Country and Hub and how to effectively express them
- Supports realignment processes as necessary in the Procurement evolution and Continuous improvement, connecting with other Country & Hub Managers
- Drives efficiency and connects end to end procurement processes and specific S2P tools to Country and Hub level use with a holistic view and incorporating use of AI
- Maintains a high and comprehensive knowledge and awareness of the different processes associated with Source to Pay (S2P), and helps drive process improvement, simplification & user experience associated with them at Country level and Hub using agile and lean approach
- Attends specific geographical SRM programs as voice of region to guide relationship with key vendors, validates supplier segmentation, and critical vendors for the Country and Hub
- Attend specifics meetings to support in resource allocation and talent recruitment along with P&C;
- Support local business projects and maintains One Sanofi mindset and approach, and Ad-hoc participation in MCO projects and activities
- Works with COGS team (PSLs/Cluster Heads who are in charge of IA sites) to support COGS sites and ensuring pipeline is taken into account
- Works to deliver value through a pipeline of local initiatives with local vendors that may not have group contracts driving value through negotiation, benchmark or site manufacturing efficiency (eg: spec change, design to value, etc.)
- Works with COGS team (PSLs/Cluster Heads who are in charge of IA sites) to support COGS sites and ensure pipeline is taken into account with overall GBU 3rd party expenses cost reduction goals & reducing site material sourcing risk exposure

**Learning Offer**
- Is the go-to expert on specific local and geographical ways of working and provides expert guidance for Sanofi team as necessary
- Understands needs of local Hub organization and ensures procurement training is in tune with these needs (upskill and reskill) and or provides guidance on topics to local and Hub organization to support tool/process usage
- Builds network to understand country context, market benchmarks, available expertise and contents within Procurement and Business Units

**Compliance**
- Supports alignment plans for the implementation of global procurement policies and overseas the process to completion
- Identifies with General Category Managers (GCMs) within the Domain and/or Hub team the requirements regarding Risk/CSR/Compliance and highlights gaps for closure
- Maintains comprehensives understanding of Local/MCO and Hub Policies/Processes related to Risk/CSR/Compliance and ensures that these are considered across procurement strategies
- As necessary, coordinates with Domains and/or Hubs team the follow-up of required vendor evaluation processes such as they are related to Risk/CSR/Compliance
- Supports as necessary specific local country/MCO and Hub audits (eg. Internal, SEC)
- Promotes good practices h Postúlate en Kit Empleo: kitempleo.com.ar/empleo/q630k