Director Global S2C Excellence Procurement

Key Responsibilities

Leadership

• Team leadership and performance: Manage team resources, priorities, and targets through direct reports; set clear objectives and track outcomes.
• Coaching and development: Lead, coach, and develop S2C team members’ professional capabilities and career growth.
• Compliance and ethics: Instill the highest standards of compliance, ethics, and governance consistently across AstraZeneca.
• Talent strategy: Build a high‑performing team by attracting, developing, and retaining talent from within and outside the organization; provide appropriate opportunities and support.

Partnering and Collaboration

• Market practices and innovation: Continuously monitor procurement market practices and drive their adoption within the S2C team.
• Stakeholder engagement: Proactively manage stakeholders within and beyond the Procurement function to align on priorities and outcomes.
• Performance visibility: Ensure transparent visibility of team performance and deliverables through regular engagement and communication with stakeholders.
• Workload and quality management: Balance workload across the team, collaborate with other S2C teams, and ensure the quality of deliverables with timely guidance and support.
• Project delivery: Lead S2C projects where required, ensuring on‑time, in‑scope, and compliant delivery.
• Stakeholder satisfaction: Implement, monitor, and follow up on internal stakeholder satisfaction and feedback.
• Standards and compliance: Embed Global Procurement processes and standards within the team and ensure adherence and accountability.

Qualification & Requirements

Typical Behaviors

• Adaptive and change‑focused: Comfortable operating in ambiguity and shaping processes, rules, and systems where not fully defined.
• Decisive and pragmatic: Makes informed decisions and owns outcomes.
• Customer‑centric: Focused on meeting and exceeding stakeholder expectations.
• Emotionally intelligent: Relates effectively to diverse stakeholders; self‑aware of strengths and development areas.
• Strategic thinker: Quickly identifies opportunities and risks; aligns S2C plans to broader business strategy.
• Versatile leader: Able to switch between doing, teaching, coaching, and delegating as appropriate.

Measures of Succcess

• Service delivery: Performance against pre‑defined objectives, SLAs, and targets.
• Continuous improvement: Delivery of procurement continuous improvement and efficiency initiatives.

Essential Requirements

• Education: Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Business, Supply Chain, or related field.
• Stakeholder management: Proven experience engaging and influencing senior stakeholders and building strong relationships.
• Procurement experience: Minimum 7 years in procurement, ideally in an international, matrixed, global environment.
• People leadership: Minimum 3 years of line management experience leading larger or multi‑disciplinary teams.
• S2C expertise: Experience in complex, global, end‑to‑end sourcing and contracting processes.
• Results orientation: Demonstrated track record of delivering against targets and outcomes.
• Change leadership: Proven experience delivering organizational change and continuous improvement initiatives.

Skills

• Communication: Excellent verbal and written communication skills with the ability to present complex information clearly at all organizational levels.
• Languages: Written and verbal fluency in English; additional languages are an advantage.
• Business partnering: Strong relationship‑building and business partnering skills across functions and geographies.
• Stakeholder engagement: Ability to quickly engage and influence stakeholders at different levels in the organization.
• Project management: Strong project and program management capabilities.
• Digital proficiency: Proficiency in Microsoft 365 (e.g., Excel, PowerPoint, Teams); familiarity with eSourcing and contract lifecycle management tools is a plus.
• Prioritization: Proven ability to manage multiple projects/tasks effectively in a fast‑paced environment.

Desirable

• Shared services leadership: Experience leading delivery teams in a shared services/SSC model.
• Advanced project credentials: Formal project management certification (e.g., PMP, PRINCE2) or equivalent experience.
• Procurement excellence: Hands‑on procurement sourcing experience in regulated or R&D‑intensive industries.

Benefits

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