Are you an experienced procurement lead within marketing? Are you skilled in making and executing procurement category strategies and negotiating contracts? Do you want to impact the future shaping of Global Procurement in an international growing pharmaceutical company? ALK Global Procurement is in a transformation enhancing our scope and reach to ensure short and long-term value creation, underpinning ALK’s new strategy Allergy. ALK Global Procurement manages direct and indirect procurement globally across locations in Europe, North America, and China. To support this transformation, we are looking for an experienced Procurement Professional to lead and develop the efforts within Marketing and Commercial globally in ALK. The position This role offers a unique opportunity to impact the strategic procurement journey in ALK. The expectation is that the right person will play an active role in procurement together with the indirect procurement team and be a close strategic ally to the business. As Senior Category Manager - Marketing, you work independently and in collaboration with stakeholders across ALK and externally. You are close to the decision-making processes and therefore able to contribute significantly to ALK’s future success. You will report to the Director of Global Indirect, CxO, and Large Projects Procurement. What you will do, and how to be successful in the role: • Leadership: Lead, manage and develop category strategies and procurement activities in ALK, ensuring alignment with ALK’s Global Procurement strategy and goals. • Collaboration and Communication: Collaborate with cross-functional teams, such as operations, finance and legal, to ensure alignment of procurement activities and business objectives. • Strategic Procurement: Develop and implement procurement and category strategies for Marketing. Drive continual improvement initiatives related to cost, quality, sustainability, and service levels. • Supplier Relationship Management: Establish and maintain strong relationships with key suppliers, negotiating favourable terms and conditions. Continuously evaluate and monitor supplier performance, addressing any issues or concerns proactively. • Sourcing and Contract Management: Lead the identification and selection of potential suppliers, conducting competitive bid processes or negotiations to secure the best value for the organization. Manage the end-to-end contract lifecycle, ensuring contracts are properly executed, adhered to and renewed or terminated as required. • Value Optimization: Analyse spend patterns, identify value opportunities, and support the development of strategies to optimize procurement processes. Drive initiatives that promote cost reduction, cost avoidance, and cost containment while maintaining quality and sustainability standards. Your profile Your qualifications include proven procurement experience from a similar role in an international company. You have strong skills in making and executing category strategies and you can demonstrate the ability to negotiate contracts, as well as have experience is in procurement of Marketing Services globally. You preferably have a master’s degree in business, supply chain or similar. You have excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to effectively engage and influence stakeholders at all levels and you can drive changes and anchor value. You have a strong analytical mindset, drive and like to be curious, proactive and lead the way. Allergy Solutions For Life More than 500 million people worldwide have allergies. Many of them suffer in silence because the way ahead is too confusing. By collecting information and the latest and most trusted solutions together in one place, we want to make allergy surprisingly simple to manage. With 100 years of experience, nobody knows allergy like us, and we continuously apply our scientific knowledge and expertise to help people take control of their allergy and their life. We want to make a difference by offering solutions for everyone who is touched by allergy – through a comprehensive range of products, services and resources that offer a fast-track to a more balanced life. By joining ALK you will get the opportunity to be part of our exciting journey where you are able to create results, develop solutions, yourself and ALK together with highly skilled and engaged colleagues while helping millions of people suffering with allergy. If our journey sounds like a mission you also would like to be part of we hope to receive your CV and application. Beyond the above we offer you an interesting job with an attractive compensation package, many additional benefits and an international environment. You can also expect flexible working hours, home office options, a modern, well-equipped workplace, a Deutschlandticket and last but not least a fun, friendly and energetic team. For your application please use our application system by clicking on the "Hier bewerben" -button below.