WNS
10,000+ employees
Founded 1996
⚖️ Legal
📦 Logistics
📣 Marketing
Legal • Logistics • Marketing
WNS is a global business process management company that operates across 13 countries with over 66 delivery centers and employs more than 62,000 people. The organization is committed to inclusivity and diversity, fostering a unique culture of co-creation and continuous learning. WNS offers various career opportunities across the Asia Pacific, Europe, Africa, and the Americas, and prides itself on its transparent and merit-based recruitment process. As a leader in its field, WNS focuses on nurturing future leaders and decision-makers while maintaining a strong emphasis on social responsibility through initiatives like the WNS Cares Foundation.
Procurement Leadership – CII, CI, D
🔥 16 hours ago
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WNS
10,000+ employees
Founded 1996
⚖️ Legal
📦 Logistics
📣 Marketing
Legal • Logistics • Marketing
WNS is a global business process management company that operates across 13 countries with over 66 delivery centers and employs more than 62,000 people. The organization is committed to inclusivity and diversity, fostering a unique culture of co-creation and continuous learning. WNS offers various career opportunities across the Asia Pacific, Europe, Africa, and the Americas, and prides itself on its transparent and merit-based recruitment process. As a leader in its field, WNS focuses on nurturing future leaders and decision-makers while maintaining a strong emphasis on social responsibility through initiatives like the WNS Cares Foundation.
📋 Description
• Develop and implement global category strategies across Commercial procurement spend • Serve as the global procurement subject matter expert and strategic advisor to senior Commercial and Market Access stakeholders • Manage a complex spend portfolio exceeding $250M • Deliver sustainable value through strategic sourcing, supplier relationship management, innovation, risk mitigation, and commercial excellence • Analyze spend, market trends, and supply risks • Provide strategic direction and operational support to Sourcing Managers • Define category roadmaps, sourcing pipelines, and performance metrics • Build supplier relationships, facilitate business performance reviews, and establish supplier KPIs, scorecards, and reviews • Lead supplier risk management and continuity planning • Lead Cross Functional Category Councils across an immediate and five-year pipeline • Align procurement initiatives and saving opportunities with internal client stakeholders • Ensure compliance with procurement policies, governance frameworks, and ethical sourcing standards • Maintain documentation and reporting of procurement activities and supplier engagements • Lead tendering, negotiations, and contract awards for activities over $500K • Drive total cost of ownership improvements, cost reduction, and value creation • Monitor category performance and report insights to the Category Director and Commercial and Finance stakeholders • Conduct cost analysis and benchmarking • Develop trusted advisor relationships across Commercial, Medical, Market Access, Finance, Legal, and Strategy • Translate business objectives into procurement and supplier strategies • Challenge business requirements and optimize external spend • Act as primary procurement partner and strategic consultant for assigned categories • Manage risk, training and development, market intelligence sharing, change initiatives, and stakeholder engagement
🎯 Requirements
• Minimum 5-7 years of procurement, strategic sourcing, category management, or commercial operations experience • Experience within the pharmaceutical, biotechnology, life sciences, or healthcare industry required • Demonstrated category expertise across Data & Analytics, Commercial Data Purchases, Business Analytics Services, Forecasting & Demand Planning, Competitive Intelligence, Market Research, or Market Access • Proven experience developing and implementing global category strategies for complex commercial service and data providers • Deep understanding of the supplier landscape, commercial data ecosystem, and leading industry providers supporting commercial pharmaceutical organizations • Experience partnering with senior leaders across Commercial, Medical Affairs, Market Access, Finance, and Strategy functions • Demonstrated success leading large-scale negotiations, strategic supplier partnerships, and multi-million-dollar sourcing initiatives • Experience operating in complex global organizations with multiple business units and geographic regions • Strong understanding of category economics, supplier cost drivers, benchmarking methodologies, and value creation opportunities • Strong understanding of pharmaceutical and life sciences commercialization models, market access considerations, competitive intelligence methodologies, forecasting processes, and the commercial data ecosystem • Demonstrated expertise in Data & Analytics, Market Research, Competitive Intelligence, Market Access, and related commercial services categories • Bachelor’s degree in Business, Supply Chain, or related discipline • Professional certification (e.g., CIPS) preferred
🏖️ Benefits
• Role clarity, coaching and mentoring, professional development and structured career path • Wide variety of best in class benefits • Free HMO coverage for self and dependent from Day 1 • Opportunity to support meaningful initiatives through WNS Cares Foundation
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