Job Description
DaVita International delivers comprehensive kidney and dialysis care to over 50,000 patients in 12 countries covering Europe, Asia, the Middle East, and Latin America. Our parent company, DaVita Inc. is one of the largest health care providers in the United States.
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Over the last decade, we set out to be the world's greatest dialysis company, and over the next decade, we are poised to build the greatest healthcare community the world has ever seen. When you join the International DaVita Village, you're joining a winning team.
As Senior Manager, Procurement and Technical Services, you will report to DaVita International’s Managing Director & Chief Operating Officer and hold global responsibility for procurement and biomedical technical services.
Procurement
- End to end responsibility for global procurement, comprising c. $130m in annual spend managed globally.
- Define global procurement strategy for machines and medical supplies, considering long-term needs of the business across all geographies.
- Manage multi-market negotiations and long-term relationships with global suppliers.
- Drive continuous evolution of all procurement and supplier management processes across the Company and work with functional stakeholders (Legal, Compliance) to ensure alignment with internal and external/regulatory policies.
- For procurement that is handled locally, act as a strategic partner to local procurement leads as they manage local vendors.
- Line management of a senior analyst.
Technical Services
- In the dialysis industry, biomedical technical services (Biomed) must be in lockstep with procurement decisions, and as such you will have end-to-end responsibility for global Biomed.
- This responsibility comprises safety and cost management of the fleet of dialysis machines, water treatment systems, and associated maintenance teams.
- Technical experience is a not a requirement for this role, as you will be managing a technical biomed manager as a member of your team.
- Key strategic projects that you will oversee in this role are efforts to in-source maintenance teams and the roll-out of a new global asset management tool.
You should expect periodic international travel (up to 10%).
Qualifications
- 5-7 years of experience in a strategic procurement role
- Experience working in healthcare or life sciences preferred (in particular dialysis)
- Strong negotiation skills
- Financial acumen, ability to coach analysts on model creation
- Strong business and organizational skills: proficiency with identifying, defining and resolving problems; developing systemic solutions
- Strong project planning skills, process improvement skills, ability to manage projects to meet specific deadlines
- Effective and motivational written and oral communications skills; ability to teach and to deliver concise and effective presentations
Personal Attributes and Skills
- A proactive, innovative and pragmatic approach to problem solving and an ability to think critically and independently with attention to detail
- Excellent written, verbal, and interpersonal communication skills with an acute ability to listen attentively and to communicate effectively throughout all levels of the organization
- Ability to work independently, shift focus, adapt to changing priorities, maintains patience in high-pressure situations
- An innovation mindset; able to look at problems from multiple perspectives and think differently
- Juggle and successfully prioritize competing work streams and strong follow-up skills
- Commitment to personal and professional growth. Ability and willingness to seek and receive feedback constructively as development opportunities
- Live, uphold and model DaVita’s core values of Service Excellence, Integrity, Team, Continuous Improvement, Accountability, Fulfilment and Fun with the ability to demonstrate those positively and proactively in daily performance and communication
When you join the Village, you can expect:
- competitive market rate salary
- Employer pension contributions
- Medical Insurance & Dental Cover
- days holiday (33 including bank holidays)
- comprehensive benefit package including Life Assurance, Income Protection & Employee Assistant Programme
- rewards based on stellar individual and team contributions
- "community first, company second" culture based on Core Values that really matter
- exciting, collaborative and driven multinational environment
- above all, to caring for patients suffering from chronic kidney disease
DaVita promotes equal opportunity employment. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, colour, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, age, or any other impermissible criteria under law.