Procurement Manager with Turkish

4 days ago

Prague, Hlavní město Praha, Czech Republic Novartis Full time 1,200,000 - 2,400,000 per year

Job Description Summary

Location: Novartis, Prague, Czech Republic #LI-Hybrid

Relocation Support: This role is based in Prague, Czech Republic. Novartis is unable to offer relocation support: please only apply if accessible.

Step into a global role where your strategic procurement expertise will shape the future of marketing and sales categories at Novartis. As Procurement Manager, you'll lead high-impact procurement initiatives on the Turkish market, drive innovation with top-tier suppliers, and influence global operations—all from our vibrant Prague hub. This is your chance to collaborate across borders, optimize value chains, and contribute to a company that's reimagining medicine through technology.

Job Description

Key Responsibilities:

  • Implement global category strategy at local level and implement sourcing business plan for area of responsibility.
  • Supervise the implementation of sourcing plans for the sub-category & deliver sub-category savings targets following engagement in the target setting process.
  • Provide input into the overall Category segmentation and identification of key supplier relationships and directly control purchases with respect to supplier choice, timing and commercial conditions on a local basis.
  • Manage strategic sub-category supplier relationships and implement consistent key performance indicators for the sub-category, and report on suppliers' performance, ensuring that any supplier performance risks and issues are resolved on a timely basis to end-user satisfaction.
  • Collect supplier information and feedback from Divisions, countries, sites, Category teams and Business Partners, and deliver Procurement Balanced Scorecard metrics for the relevant sub-category.
  • Create, apply, complete and reviews major contracts for the sub-category and ensure that negotiated contracts are clearly communicated for the sub-category area and that they are consistently applied.

Essential Requirements:

  • University/Advanced degree in Business Administration/Economics/Finance/Supply Chain or similar.
  • 4 – 6 years of experience of working in Procurement within Indirect categories in a global environment.
  • Fluent spoken and written Turkish and English are necessary.
  • Excellent communication and negotiation skills to manage senior stakeholders, internal teams and lead global negotiations with suppliers.
  • Experience in Spend reporting, analysis and optimization. Experience with eSourcing tools.
  • Strong project management skills with a collaborative and team-oriented mindset.
  • Experience working in virtual teams and with remote stakeholders across geographies.
  • Curiosity and eagerness to continuously learn and grow professionally.

Desirable Requirements:

  • Experience within marketing and sales categories (social media, print promo, market insights, congresses, tax services, financial services etc.)

Benefits & Rewards

Monthly pension contribution matching your individual contribution up to 3% of your gross monthly base salary; Risk Life Insurance (full cost covered by Novartis); 5-week holiday per year; (1 week above the Labour Law requirement); 4 paid sick days within one calendar year in case of absence due to sickness without a medical sickness report; Cafeteria employee benefit program – choice of benefits from Benefit Plus Cafeteria in the amount of 17,500 CZK per year; Meal vouchers in amount of 105 CZK for each working day (full tax covered by company); Public Transportation allowance; MultiSport Card, Employee Share Purchase Plan. Find out more about Novartis Business Services:

Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion / EEO paragraph:

Novartis is committed to building an outstanding, inclusive work environment and diverse teams representative of the patients and communities we serve.

Accessibility and accommodation:

Novartis is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodation to all individuals. If, because of a medical condition or disability, you need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the recruitment process, or in order to receive more detailed information about the essential functions of a position, please send an e-mail to and let us know the nature of your request and your contact information. Please include the job requisition number in your message.

Skills Desired

Internal And External Customer Needs Analysis & Satisfaction Studies, Negotiating, Root Cause Analysis And Problem-Solving, Vendor Management

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