Global Purchasing Senior Specialist - Chester, United Kingdom - Bristol-Myers Squibb

Bristol-Myers Squibb
Bristol-Myers Squibb
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Chester, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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Working with Us
Challenging. Meaningful. Life-changing. Those aren't words that are usually associated with a job. But working at Bristol Myers Squibb is anything but usual. Here, uniquely interesting work happens every day, in every department.

From optimizing a production line to the latest breakthroughs in cell therapy, this is work that transforms the lives of patients, and the careers of those who do it.

You'll get the chance to grow and thrive through opportunities uncommon in scale and scope, alongside high-achieving teams rich in diversity.

Take your career farther than you thought possible.


What we can offer

  • Flexible working flexible start and finish times
  • Hybrid working 50% home/office working
  • Career and qualifications support
  • Modern office building with various onsite benefits

Position Purpose

  • The Global Purchasing Sr. Specialist plays a crucial role in coordinating and leading financial and vendor management in a multicountry environment for HR. _
  • Build and Maintain Supplier Governance with assigned HR function and/or geographic region.
  • Provide continuous improvement within Global Vendor Management Processes to enhance stakeholder's experience and align business strategy/requirements.
  • Provide Subject Matter Expertise with BMS Policy and Procedures for purchasing and payment processing.
  • Collaborative with internal and external parties to problem solve with an understanding of endtoend processes and knowledge of impacts to decisions.

Key Responsibilities

  • Proactively executing and coordinating the "Purchase to pay" process for People Services, working closely with regional teams and SMEs across HR and BMS.
  • Manage the monitoring and tracking invoices to ensure timely payment.
  • Conducting financial tracking, monitoring, and reporting of Purchase Orders against actual budgeted amounts.
  • Preparing and communicating monthly financial variance reports
  • Lead collaboration with crossfunctional teams, both internal and external to ensure invoices are validated and approved before releasing payment.
  • Executing full life cycle of Purchase Orders management in SAP/ARIBA including creation, maintenance, ontime payments, and closure.
  • Building relationships with crossfunctional teams such as Accounts Payable, Global Payments, Finance, Procurement, and functional support teams.
  • Provide Subject Matter Expertise regarding Procurement and Finance policies and procedures, utilizing SAP, ARIBA, and Icertis.
  • Work with HR and Finance to manage the harmonization of various acquired companies. Ensuring that benefits and compensation have been correctly aligned to allow for the smooth day to day running of the business without any issues.
  • Provide insight and guidance to HR on the BMS ways of working addressing issues such as:
  • Managing procurement processes
  • Overseeing vendor creation
  • Contract management
  • Facilitating the I2P process
  • Handling nonBMS system payments through heritage payment systems.

Knowledge, Skills & Qualifications

  • Bachelors degree
  • Experience with financial/budget
  • Experience in purchase order/vendor payment Processing utilizing SAP / Ariba
  • Ability to work in a matrix team with strong exceptional organizational skills
  • Advanced level data analysis, excel and complex reporting skills
  • Excellent communication skills in order to work across regional remote teams and markets
  • Ability to identify, analyse and solve problems, with limited guidance.
  • Identify and drive areas for continuous improvement.
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Uniquely Interesting Work, Life-changing Careers

On-site Protocol
BMS has a diverse occupancy structure that determines where an employee is required to conduct their work. This structure includes site-essential, site-by-design, field-based and remote-by-design jobs.

The occupancy type that you are assigned is determined by the nature and responsibilities of your role:

Site-essential roles require 100% of shifts onsite at your assigned facility. Site-by-design roles may be eligible for a hybrid work model with at least 50% onsite at your assigned facility.

For these roles, onsite presence is considered an essential job function and is critical to collaboration, innovation, productivity, and a positive Company culture.

For field-based and remote-by-design roles the ability to physically travel to visit customers, patients or business partners and to attend meetings on behalf of BMS as directed is an essential job function.

BMS cares about your well-being and the well-being of our staff, customers, patients, and communities.

As a result, the Company strongly recommends that all employees be fully vaccinated for Covid-19 and keep up to date with Covid-19 boosters.

BMS will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records, pursuant to applicable laws in your area.

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