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About the Role

This is a critical role with accountability for a spend category across a region or the whole of AstraZeneca, leading both demand and supply side activities. It involves strategic planning, strategic relationship management, and overseeing the implementation of category plans to deliver business value.

Responsibilities

• Accountable for designing and implementing APAC IT category, regional, and market strategies that optimize performance, speed to market, and value for money.
• Owns IT category management regionally/locally, including strategic sourcing, contracting, supplier performance, risk, and sustainability.
• Develops and maintains expert knowledge of APAC IT supply markets, competitive dynamics, pricing models, and innovation trends.
• Partners with stakeholders to understand spend, channel mix, and campaign priorities; identifies opportunities to generate value, quality, and efficiency; facilitates procurement led change initiatives within to improve business performance.
• Collaborates with Global Category teams to align on global strategies, leverage scale, and localize for APAC market needs and regulatory requirements.
• Coordinate with APAC country teams with clear targets (savings/ROI, quality, speed, compliance, sustainability).
• Oversees and lead the regional portfolio and performance.
• Leads, builds capabilities in agency management, market benchmarking, rate/fee negotiations etc.
• Fosters a diverse, collaborative, and growth oriented team culture.
• Develops deep understanding of IT customer needs, brand strategies, omnichannel plans, and market environments; builds strong relationships with senior stakeholders to ensure satisfaction and outcomes.
• Works with Strategic Intelligence/Insights and Finance to deliver reporting and analysis, incorporate external insight, to identify improvement opportunities and innovative sourcing solutions that drive cashable savings and process efficiencies.
• Addresses supplier/agency issues to ensure highest service delivery; maintains contractual and business relationships to the highest standards, including clear scopes of work, KPIs, SLAs, and governance.
• Fosters trusted, performance based partnerships with agencies and platforms to achieve better pricing, transparency, quality, and innovation.
• Conducts annual peer reviews of category, regional, and market strategies; calibrates against industry benchmarks.
• Plans and reviews performance of Procurement and cross functional teams within scope; drives initiatives for compliance, continuous improvement, technical excellence, and cost effectiveness.
• Leads business case development and approval for major IT investments, translating needs into resource and supplier requirements.
• Develops senior level relationships to resolve issues, optimize performance, and shape future opportunities.
• Ensures the highest standards of compliance and ethics across AZ, including data privacy, fair market value, anti bribery, third party risk, inclusion & diversity, and sustainability in production.

Requirements

• Degree level qualification
• 5–8+ years procurement experience with 3+ in IT/commercial tech)
• Work experience in pharmaceutical industry (Nice to have)
• IT/Digital education background is a plus, working experience as regional role (Nice to have)
• Excellent PC skills Excel and PowerPoint.
• Data Analytical ability
• Communication and presentation skills, including oral & written
• Ability to influence others without authority
• Demonstrated capacity to effectively manage multiple and frequently changing priorities
• Understanding/knowledge of the Pharmaceutical business and AZ products (Nice to have)
• Good cultural awareness, exposure to global working (Nice to have)

Skills

• IT category management
• Strategic sourcing
• Contracting
• Supplier performance management
• Risk management
• Sustainability
• Market analysis
• Stakeholder management
• Change management
• Agency management
• Market benchmarking
• Rate/fee negotiation
• Team leadership
• Business case development
• Compliance
• Ethics
• Data privacy
• Fair market value assessment
• Anti-bribery
• Third party risk management
• Inclusion & diversity
• Excel
• PowerPoint
• Data analysis
• Communication
• Presentation skills
• Influencing
• Priority management

Location

• Osaka
• Tokyo

Work Type

• Full-time

Experience Level

• 5-8+ years procurement experience
• 3+ years in IT/commercial tech

Education Level

• Degree level qualification
• B.S. Degree

About the Company

• AstraZeneca is a global, science-led, patient-focused biopharmaceutical company.
• We focus on discovering, developing and commercialising prescription medicines for some of the world’s most serious diseases.
• At AstraZeneca, we’re dedicated to being a Great Place to Work.
• Where you are empowered to push the boundaries of science, challenge convention and unleash your entrepreneurial spirit.
• To embrace differences and take bold actions to drive the change needed to meet global healthcare and sustainability challenges.
• There is no better place to make a difference in medicine, patients, and society.
• An inclusive culture where you will connect different thinking to generate new and valuable opportunities.
• Where you will find a commitment to lifelong learning, growth and development for all.
• Our Inclusion & Diversity (I&D) mission is to create an inclusive and equitable environment where people belong, using the power of our diversity to push the boundaries of science to deliver life-changing medicines to patients.
• Inclusion and diversity are fundamental to the success of our company, because innovation requires breakthrough ideas that only come from a diverse workforce empowered to challenge conventional thinking.
• We’re curious about science and the advancement of knowledge.
• We find creative ways to approach new challenges.
• We’re driven to make the right choices and be accountable for our actions.
• As an organisation centred around what makes us human, we put a big focus on people.
• Across our business, we want colleagues to wake up excited about their day at the office, in the field, or in the lab.
• Along with our purpose to bring life-changing medicines to people across the globe, we have a promise to you: to help you realise the full breadth of your potential.
• Here, you’ll do work that has the potential to change your life and improve countless others.
• And, together with your team, you’ll shape a culture that unites and inspires us every day.
• This is your life at AstraZeneca.

Equal Opportunity

• AstraZeneca embraces diversity and equality of opportunity.
• We are committed to building an inclusive and diverse team representing all backgrounds, with as wide a range of perspectives as possible, and harnessing industry-leading skills.
• We believe that the more inclusive we are, the better our work will be.
• We welcome and consider applications to join our team from all qualified candidates, regardless of their characteristics.
• We comply with all applicable laws and regulations on non-discrimination in employment (and recruitment), as well as work authorization and employment eligibility verification requirements.