Category Manager Procurement

18 July 2026
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Permanent position
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Job summary

Join Abbott, a global healthcare leader with over 107,000 colleagues.

Tasks

Develop and implement global supplier relationship strategies.
Monitor supply market dynamics for benchmarking and insights.
Drive annual performance improvements through strategic work.

Skills

Bachelor's degree required; advanced degree preferred.
Excellent communication and collaboration skills.
Strong analytical and decision-making abilities.

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About Abbott <div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div>At Abbott, we believe people live their fullest lives when they are healthy — physically, emotionally, and socially. As a global healthcare leader with over 107,000 colleagues in 160+ countries, we create lifechanging technologies that support health at every stage of life. Within our Branded Generics business, we make trusted, high quality medicines accessible to more than 18 million people every day, particularly in fast growing regions such as LATAM, APAC, India, and Emerging Markets. Our diverse portfolio spans critical therapeutic areas including Women’s Health, Gastroenterology, Cardiometabolic, CNS & Pain, and Respiratory — addressing real, unmet patient needs worldwide. Abbott is a place where science, purpose, and people come together — and where diverse perspectives are essential to building better outcomes for patients. </div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>Primary Job Function: <ul><li>Responsible for developing and implementing global supplier relationship strategies supporting all financial, operational, qualitative, and regulatory aspects.</li><li>Develop supply market insight capability within the GPROC (Global Procurement) organization to increase knowledge of supply market dynamics, composition, trends and gain a comprehensive understanding of the market landscape and business models from a macro and micro economic perspective covering and Procurement. And utilize this to build and maintain Procurement strategies.</li><li>Monitor supply market dynamics across peer organizations also for benchmarking purposes.</li><li>Focus on achieving LRP Supplier Relationship Office related savings</li><li>Drive annual performance improvements via strategy work and applicable metrics.</li><li>Build up and maintain supplier relationship experience roadmap and ensure that processes meet and reflect EPD overall expectations</li><li>Facilitate and communicate the global supplier landscape design, implementation, optimization and integration of the flow of materials and the related financials</li><li>Assist in analysing of all Supplier Cost within EPD PTO (Procurement & TPM Organization)</li><li>Ensure that impacts to operations driven by regulatory requirements are minimized and/or leveraged for competitive advantage</li><li>Support the Snr Global Supplier Relationship Director to deliver specific strategic projects and initiatives</li></ul>Core Job Responsibilities:<ul><li>Direct, plan and execute strategic GPROC programs, including re-engineering of supplier base on a global or regional basis. Focusing on Cost and Supply Chain continuity.</li><li>Support optimization of the EPD GPROC supplier structure to expand our global supplier network, improve supplier compliance and efficiency</li><li>Actively pursue a cross-functional culture of excellence to effectively implement global supplier programs</li><li>Align programs with Operations and other EPD Functional areas on goals and objectives for the global supplier process</li><li>Build and maintain close working relationships with and provide expertise to management to identify and realize improvements</li><li>Effective cross functional and divisional stakeholder communication, collaboration and coordination</li><li>Lead and/or support large scale and sustainable change management initiatives</li><li>Be a key leader in influencing the evolving EPD GPROC supplier strategy</li><li>Support global supplier integration and acquisitions</li><li>Stay abreast of supplier related regulatory requirements, providing expertise to project teams to ensure cost-effective compliance</li></ul>Minimum Education:<ul><li>Bachelor's degree and/or comparable educational background required. Graduate degree or professional certification is preferred (MBA, CPA, etc.)</li></ul>Minimum Experience/Training Required:Experience:<ul><li>5- 10 years of global supply chain and procurement experience</li><li>Management experience (team and project management) preferably in the pharmaceutical industry</li><li>Experience in managing large distribution and transportation budgets</li><li>Strong proficiency in Microsoft Word and Excel, with high-level working knowledge of SAP R/3.</li></ul>Languages:<ul><li>Proficiency in English</li><li>Other languages are advantageous</li></ul>Skills<ul><li>Excellent communication and concept selling skills</li><li>Able to organize colleagues and actively promote the development of a cross-functional culture of excellence and shape the future direction of the business</li><li>Proactive internal and external stakeholder communication, coordination and collaboration</li><li>Implement agenda under rapidly changing circumstances in complex matrix environments</li><li>Ability to quickly assess project developments and challenges by anticipating potential impacts for the business and resolving issues at initial stages</li><li>Ability to work efficiently in complex and deadline-driven operations, not losing focus on accuracy and quality</li><li>Proven track record to set priorities and adapt them accordingly at short notice</li><li>Effectively work on multiple, unrelated projects simultaneously</li><li>Ability to modify strategies according to market dynamics and internal requirements</li><li>Global vision of the interactions in a demanding environment</li><li>Provide expert guidance to PTO Managers and project teams, and allocates appropriate amount of time and resources for completing work</li><li>Working understanding of the supplier industries</li><li>Tenacity and drive needed to develop, sell and implement strategic supplier programs</li><li>Work collaboratively with colleagues at all levels to achieve organizational goals</li></ul>Attitude / behaviour<ul><li>Flexible, proactive and motivated by the opportunity to optimize structures and processes</li><li>Ability to judge, combined with a persuasive power</li><li>Global and creative mind set and strategic orientation</li><li>Self-motivated team player with a positive “can-do” attitude. Persists in the face of obstacles</li><li>Team player - Works collaboratively with colleagues to achieve organizational goals</li><li>Ability to adapt in a high pressured an ever-changing business environment</li><li>Ability to constructively cope with conflicts</li><li>Strong and proven analytical, organizational and decision-making skills</li><li>Strategic thinking, result and cost oriented</li><li>Intercultural competence</li><li>Proactive, open minded and independent working method</li><li>Accuracy, reliability and conscientiousness</li></ul> Why Abbott <ul><li>Purpose driven work that improves access to healthcare globally </li><li>Opportunities for international collaboration and career growth </li><li>An environment where your expertise, voice, and perspective truly matter </li></ul>Abbott is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer, committed to building teams that reflect the patients and communities we serve. Ready to Join Us?If this opportunity excites you, we’d love to learn more about you. Please submit your CV.(If uploading multiple documents, be sure to add them before saving, as additional uploads cannot be added afterward.)

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