Job RoleThe position is responsible for managing direct procurement and purchase orders for pharmaceutical materials, including raw materials, primary packaging, finished products, commercial requirements, and R&D requirements for local and overseas suppliers.
Responsibilities
- * Create and validate purchase orders for direct materials using the approved vendor list.
- Raise purchase orders for commercial, R&D, and finished-product requirements.
- Check released purchase requisitions and previous procurement prices for repeat orders.
- Issue enquiries, obtain supplier quotations, and prepare comparative statements.
- Negotiate prices, payment terms, delivery terms, and other purchasing conditions.
- Obtain management approvals and attach supporting documents in SAP before purchase order creation.
- Release purchase orders and share them with suppliers.
- Manage supplier contracts, agreements, performance, and delivery commitments.
- Follow up on deliveries and resolve supply issues, discrepancies, and payment-related matters.
- Complete the procure-to-pay process in line with company procedures.
- Support GMP/QMS activities such as change control, CAPA, and deviations where applicable.
- Follow the Environmental Management System, ISO 14001:2015, and HSE requirements.
- Report hazards, non-conformities, and environmental issues and support continual improvement.
Qualification & Experience
- * Bachelor’s degree in pharmaceutical sciences.
- Minimum 3 years of minimum experience in Pharmaceutical industry.
- Good working knowledge of MS Office and SAP.
- Experience with procurement systems; SAP Ariba is an advantage.
- Good negotiation skills.
