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**Responsibilities**:
The Elanco Procurement team is responsible for sourcing goods and services in a way that adds value to the Elanco functional organizations. The focus of the sourcing roles will be to establish sourcing strategies that are applied during strategic sourcing and value capture projects and maintain relationships with suppliers who supply Elanco. The individual will develop and maintain market knowledge for one or more spend areas, identify and implement best business practices that deliver value, network internally to influence change, lead local and global projects through the strategic sourcing process resulting in negotiations and contracting with the selected supplier(s). The individual will be involved in relationship management with critical suppliers to assure the value targeted during negotiations is realized for the business. The sourcing team is also responsible for account management with internal client areas to stay connected and aware of potential and current business needs.
**Key Objectives/Deliverables**
This role will be responsible for sourcing support for Elanco Logistics services including warehouse and distribution, international transportation (SEA, AIR, ROAD), warehousing, and other logistics services for the Americas cluster. The person will primarily support the strategic requests/projects concerning South America and Canada needs for both Affiliate and M&Q. In this role, the individual will interact with Elanco global logistics and supply chain personnel as well as all other functions collaborating in the logistics environment (e.g Quality, Regulatory, Security, etc ). The employee in this role has the responsibility for leading the sourcing process from strategy development and supplier selection through contract negotiation and ongoing relationship management with other functions. The person in the position works closely with key stakeholders on a daily basis.
The person in this role will identify, negotiate with and manage suppliers who provide goods and services to meet Elanco's global logistics requirements. These activities could include development of Requests for Information, Requests for Proposals as well as negotiation and contract execution. An additional goal of the position is to provide commercial expertise and assist in managing risks from external providers. Having a strong working knowledge of various logístical and warehouse needs associated with Development, Manufacturing and other areas are requirements of this position. It is important that this role understands the regulatory and quality requirements associated with transportation, warehousing, as well as understand Elanco's logistics operations and requirements. This person will work directly and closely with Warehouse/Transportation/Logistics leadership, supply chain and site functions interacting with logistics.
**Basic Requirements**:
Bachelor's Degree in Chemistry, Biology or Industrial Engineering, Business or Supply Chain
At least 4 years of Procurement experience with a large company
At least 1 years of experience sourcing experience for warehouse and distribution or logistics/freight forwarder spend
**Additional Preferences**
Understanding and experience with logistics service providers and strategies behind logistics with a preference on the healthcare environment
Experience and knowledge of GxP manufacturing environment
Proven interpersonal skills especially in conflict situations and collaborates effectively with internal and external teams
Proven skills in negotiating and understanding of commercial law
Demonstrated ability to work independently, set direction, manage commitments
Leverages broad network (internally & externally) to maintain market knowledge & best practice awareness
Demonstrated business acumen; good analytical and problem solving skills
Strong written and verbal communication skills
Experience in managing global third party relationships including management/oversight, supplier and/or supplier selection, negotiati