Manager, Category Excellence / Capability Lead ExM GP

We Are Teva

We’re Teva, a leading innovative biopharmaceutical company, enabled by a world-class generics business. Whether it’s innovating in the fields of neuroscience and immunology or delivering high-quality medicine worldwide, we’re dedicated to addressing patients’ needs now and in the future. Here, you will be part of a high-performing, inclusive culture that values fresh thinking and collaboration. You'll have the room to grow, the flexibility to balance life with work, and the opportunity to better health worldwide, together.

Our Team, Your Impact

The Category Excellence & Capability Lead is responsible for partnering with the EXM Procurement team to standardize and continuously improve ways of working to imbed best-in-class category management and sourcing processes, practices, tools, and capabilities. This role ensures that category and sourcing teams operate with a consistent, high-impact approach to strategy development, sourcing execution, and value delivery.

The role work with teams to imbed pre-defined methodology, playbooks, and capability building, enabling category and sourcing managers to deliver superior outcomes across cost, risk, supply continuity, and innovation.

How You’ll Spend Your Day

 

• Work with procurement teams to implement and track the end-to-end category management framework, including strategy development, sourcing execution, and supplier management
• Track and report that standardized approaches to category segmentation, opportunity identification, and strategy formulation are being developed and planned for execution
• Advise teams to maintain alignment with procurement policy, governance, and enterprise objectives

• Track and report that procurement teams execute accordingly to category playbooks, templates, and toolkits (e.g., strategy templates, negotiation guides, should-cost models)
• Assist Procurement teams to standardize best practices across categories to ensure consistency and repeatability
• Continuously assist the EXM Procurement LT to refine tools and methodologies based on internal performance benchmarks

• Where appropriate, partner with Procurement COE teams to deliver training programs to build category management and sourcing capabilities across EXM procurement
• Use established capability maturity models to assess team proficiency through developed reporting for EXM Procurement LT
• Execute onboarding programs for new category and sourcing managers and continuous learning initiatives

• Support category teams to leverage advanced sourcing techniques (e.g., should-cost modeling, market analysis, value engineering)
• Support procurement managers through development of category and sourcing strategies for high-impact or complex categories
• Partner with Analytics and Finance to ensure robust business cases and value tracking are being used consistently within the EXM Procurement team

• Work with EXM Procurement LT to define and track category management effectiveness metrics (e.g., strategy quality, sourcing cycle time, value delivered)
• Establish governance forums and review processes to ensure adherence to standards and that results are reported to EXM Procurement LT
• Conduct maturity assessments and drive continuous improvement initiatives

• Partner with COE functions (Analytics, Finance Governance, Risk) to embed best practices into category and sourcing teams
• Collaborate with category teams to identify capability gaps and improvement opportunities
• Work with leadership to align capability development with business priorities

Your Skills and Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Supply Chain, Finance, or related field (advanced degree preferred)
• 5-8+ years of experience in procurement, category management, or strategic sourcing
• Proven experience in developing or leading category strategies and sourcing initiatives
• Experience deploying training, playbooks, or operating frameworks within procurement or similar functions
• Working Knowledge of category management principles and sourcing strategies
• Ability to work with leaders to standardize category strategies across diverse spend areas
• Working knowledge of sourcing tools, techniques, and value levers

• Experience in training, coaching, and capability building
• Ability to translate complex methodologies into simple, scalable frameworks
• Strong instructional design and communication skills

• Ability to influence without direct authority across category teams
• Strong stakeholder management and relationship-building skills
• Continuous improvement mindset with a focus on operational excellence

How We’ll Take Care of You

At Teva, better health starts from within, and that includes you. From day one, you’ll be supported with benefits designed to help you thrive in and out of work. This includes generous annual leave, reward plans, flexible working schedules (dependent on role), access to tailored health support, and meaningful ways to give back to the community.  When it comes to your career, you’ll be encouraged to explore, evolve, and shape your path. Twist, our one-stop shop for career development platform, gives you access to a wide range of possibilities, from learning programs and short-term projects to opportunities for internal growth. Here, you’ll be part of a culture that empowers you to reach your goals and prioritize your wellbeing every step of the way. 

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