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Uniphar

Strategic Sourcing Specialist

Dublin

FULL TIME

December 4, 2024

Strategic Sourcing Specialist
Permanent Full Time Role
Citywest, Dublin
The Role:
Reporting to the Procurement Manager, the Strategic Sourcing Specialist will be responsible for all sourcing activity for our unlicensed medicines business in our pharmasource department. They will be responsible for analysing market trends, identifying growth opportunities, and developing strategic initiatives to help the organization achieve its goals. This role requires expertise in procurement practices, supplier relationship management and negotiation. We are seeking a results-driven professional with strong commercial acumen to lead initiatives that enhance our competitive advantage and financial performance. The ideal candidate will possess a deep understanding of market trends and demonstrate a sharp business insight.
Key Outcomes
  • Drive global drug shortages and exclusive access initiatives
  • Conduct market research to identify trends, risks, and opportunities in supply markets
  • Support Business Unit targets, ensuring that targets are achieved each month
  • Continuously work to identify business development opportunities to contribute to growing the unlicensed business unit as well as the wider On Demand business through procurement excellence
  • Build and maintain strong relationships with key suppliers to foster collaboration and ensure long-term partnerships
  • Strategic collaboration with external stakeholders, including cultivating MAH & KAM relationships
  • Work closely with internal teams, including operations, finance, and legal, to align sourcing initiatives with business needs
  • Identify risks, both within the portfolio and in the supply chain. Develop contingency plans to mitigate these risks
  • Track and report on key performance indicators (KPIs)
  • Use analytics to measure the success of sourcing strategies and inform future decisions
  • Supporting cross-functional tasks when required
  • Ownership of stock from beginning of lifecycle to end
  • Ensuring we are price competitive against the market while ensuring growth margin
Key Skills & Experiences
  • Commercially focused with a proven ability to evaluate business opportunities and risks
  • 5+ years’ of pharmaceutical experience
  • 5+ years’ experience in procurement, sourcing, or supply chain management, preferably in a strategic role.
  • Ability to communicate in a professional manner and effectively manage internal and external relationships
  • Experienced in stakeholder management/negotiation/relationship management/commercial decision making
  • Excellent IT and Microsoft office capabilities
Uniphar – Who we are
With a workforce of more than 3000 employees spread across Ireland, United Kingdom, Mainland Europe, MENA, and the USA, Uniphar is a trusted global partner to pharma and Med Tech manufacturers, working to improve patient access to medicines around the world. Uniphar provides outsourced and specialised services to its clients, leveraging the strong relationships with 200+ of the world’s best known pharmaco-medical manufacturers across multiple geographies, enabled by our cutting-edge digital technology and our highly expert teams. Uniphar is organised into three key divisions: Supply Chain Retail & On Demand, Uniphar Med Tech and Uniphar Pharma.
Supply Chain & Retail
Supply Chain Services provides both pre-wholesale and wholesale distribution of pharmaceutical, healthcare and animal health products to pharmacies and hospital nationwide. The business supports a diverse customer base through the provision of strong service levels coupled with innovative commercial initiatives. In addition, the business provides services and supports that help independent community pharmacy to compete more effectively in an increasingly difficult environment and runs a network of Uniphar-owned pharmacies under the Life, Allcare, Mc Cauleys and Hickeys symbol brands.
Pharma – On Demand
The On-Demand business is a specialist medical supply business that sources and distributes pharmaceuticals, medical equipment, and consumable supplies to healthcare professionals in over 160 countries worldwide. We have offices in Ireland, UK, Europe, USA and New Zealand. The company’s main divisions encompass everything from International Sales through Sales to NGO’s and Charities, Clinical Trials Supply, Imported (Unlicensed Medicines), Sexual Health Supplies, and the storage and distribution of medical products and devices for third parties.
Click here to find out more: About Us - Who we are | Uniphar
Culture at Uniphar
Uniphar is a combination of many businesses each with its own identity, culture, values, and ways of working. Our overarching culture narrative is inclusive of each of these stores. Uniphar lives and breathes four key pillars which unpin and support our culture.
We have a people first approach - we do the right thing. We support entrepreneurial spirit where adaptability, commitment & resilience is embodied in our way of working. We have a Common Purpose that connects our diversified businesses and people. Finally, Trust is at the heart of how we operate.
Everything Uniphar does is enabled by our people and as we continue to grow domestically and internationally, we become more diverse. This diversity fuels our business and culture.
Sustainability
Sustainability is at the core of what we do and is deeply embedded in our business strategy. We want to contribute positively to the people and the world around us. Running our business in a sustainable way ensures that Uniphar will continue to prosper in the long-term. We are focused on ensuring that each of the five pillars of our sustainability strategy are a fundamental part of our decision-making process.
Job Types: Full-time, Permanent
Benefits:
  • Bike to work scheme
  • Company pension
  • Employee assistance program
  • Employee discount
  • On-site parking
  • Sick pay
  • Store discount
  • Wellness program
  • Work from home
Schedule:
  • Monday to Friday
Work Location: Hybrid remote in Saggart, Dublin, CO. Dublin
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