Procurement Lead - Indirect Procurement

Piramal Pharma Solutions

Piramal Pharma Solutions is a contract development and manufacturing organization (CDMO), offering end-to-end development and manufacturing solutions across the drug life cycle. We serve our clients through a globally integrated network of facilities in North America, Europe and Asia.

This enables us to offer a comprehensive range of services including Drug Discovery Solutions, Process & Pharmaceutical Development services, Clinical Trial Supplies, Commercial supply of APIs and Finished dosage forms. We also offer specialized services like development and manufacture of Highly Potent APIs and Antibody Drug Conjugation.

Our capability as an integrated service provider & experience with various technologies enables us to serve Innovator and Generic companies worldwide.

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Procurement Lead - Indirect Procurement

The Procurement Lead – Indirect Procurement is responsible for sourcing and managing non-material spend categories including MRO, capital equipment, engineering and facility services, laboratory supplies and instruments, IT, professional services, logistics and site operating services. The role owns the end-to-end indirect procurement cycle: demand clarification with technical stakeholders, competitive sourcing, negotiation, contracting and transaction execution within the ERP system (SAP). Unlike direct procurement, indirect spend is fragmented, specification-ambiguous and stakeholder-driven.

The role therefore requires strong analytical judgment, structured problem solving and the ability to convert unclear or incomplete requirements into a defensible sourcing decision. The incumbent is expected to operate both strategically — category planning, spend consolidation, supplier rationalization and savings pipeline management — and tactically — requisition-to-PO execution, expediting, and PO–GRN–invoice resolution — while continuously improving the underlying process.

• Build and maintain category profiles for assigned indirect spend: spend baseline, supplier landscape, cost drivers, contract coverage and consolidation opportunities.
• Develop and execute annual sourcing plans and a tracked savings pipeline; report realized versus targeted savings.
• Reduce tail spend and supplier fragmentation through rationalization, preferred-supplier programs and catalog / blanket order structures.
• Support capital project and new business costing with sourced, benchmarked indirect cost inputs.

• Run competitive RFI / RFQ / RFP events: define scope of work with stakeholders, normalize bids on a like-for-like basis and recommend award with documented rationale.
• Negotiate price, payment terms, service levels, warranty and total cost of ownership; manage bid waiver justification where competition is not feasible.
• Coordinate with Legal, Quality, EHS and IT on contracts, MSAs, service agreements and required compliance documentation.
• Evaluate, qualify and onboard new suppliers based on capability, reliability and cost-effectiveness to expand and de-risk the supply base.

• Perform spend analytics, price-variance analysis, should-cost and total cost of ownership modeling, and market benchmarking to identify savings and leakage.
• Extract and structure SAP purchasing data; build and maintain recurring dashboards and reporting for spend, savings, cycle time and PO compliance.
• Translate analysis into a clear recommendation with quantified impact, and state risks and assumptions separately.
• Perform pertinent unit and currency conversions as they pertain to unit price, quantity and total price.

• Process purchase requisitions to purchase orders in SAP, ensuring correct…