Sourcing Manager

At Alcon, we are driven by the meaningful work we do to help people see brilliantly. We innovate boldly, champion progress, and act with speed as the global leader in eye care. Here, you’ll be recognized for your commitment and contributions and see your career like never before. Together, we go above and beyond to make an impact in the lives of our patients and customers.

We foster an inclusive culture and are looking for diverse, talented people to join Alcon. As a Sourcing Manager, you will define and adapt a regional sourcing strategy for secondary category in alignment with business stakeholders across corresponding Alcon business units. You will perform strategic sourcing work to manage risk and optimize the value/resilience of materials/services sourcing including: Identifying projects to apply sourcing and purchasing/procurement methodology, establishing supplier relationship management processes and continuous improvement goals/programs, negotiating contracts and coordinating supplier integration plans with internal clients, monitoring market dynamics that impact materials/services availability and/or pricing, partnering with internal clients to identify sourcing needs, developing buyer/market profiles, identifying marketplace trends, and defining acceptable service levels.

Key Responsibilities:

• Manage the relationship with key stakeholders in the business to maintain the highest level of customer satisfaction and to ensure the sourcing strategy is aligned and understood.
• Analyze, identify, evaluate, negotiate, select, contract, develop, and maintain a supply base which meets the line functions’ need for timely and quality supply of goods and services for the assigned category. Support sites during budgeting process.
• Seek input from and align with other supply side functions and/or local stakeholders.
• Build full spend transparency (spend baselines, KPIs and metrics).
• Lead key supplier relationships to enable innovation, continuous improvement and cost containment through mutual accountability and trust.
• Develop, align and implement innovative cost savings and productivity initiatives for the assigned category to support Procurement and business targets.
• Lead complex negotiations and support the business with contracting (negotiation and implementation of other agreements) within assigned category in compliance with legal, ethical, and procurement standards and protecting trade secrets and IP.
• Other duties as assigned.

WHAT YOU’LL BRING TO ALCON:

• Bachelor’s Degree or Equivalent years of directly related experience (or high school 13 yrs; Assoc. 9 yrs; M.S. 2 yrs; PhD 0 yrs)
• The ability to fluently read, write, understand and communicate in English
• 5 Years of Relevant Experience

Travel Requirements: Like domestic or international (Percentage)
Relocation assistance: yes or no
Sponsorship available: yes or no

Preferred Requirements:

• Experience in procurement, purchasing, supply chain and/or sourcing of paper/boards/cartons.
• Demonstrated experience leading cost reduction and inventory reduction activities.

How You Can Thrive At Alcon:

• Benefit from a growing, innovative environment.
• Sharpen your current skills and gain exposure within different areas of the business.
• Join Alcon’s mission to provide outstanding, innovative products and solutions to improve sight and improve lives!
• Work Hours: Standard Hours, Monday-Friday

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Alcon is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. Alcon takes pride in maintaining a diverse environment and our policies are not to discriminate in recruitment, hiring, training, promotion or other employment practices for reasons of race, color, religion, gender, national origin, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital or veteran status, disability, or any other legally protected status. Alcon is also committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodation to individuals with disabilities. If, because of a medical condition or disability, you need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the application process, or in order to perform the essential functions of a position, please send an email to alcon.recruitment@alcon.com and let us know the nature of your request and your contact information.