About the Job

Location: Budapest

At Xellia, you’ll join a collaborative and friendly team in an international company with a strong purpose. We offer a dynamic, multinational working environment where you’ll have the opportunity to learn, grow, and make a meaningful impact.
As a Procurement Excellence Manager you will help drive value creation, improve ways of working, and ensure clear follow-through across key priorities.

Main Responsibilities

Procurement Excellence & Governance

• Establish and embed best-in-class Category Management ways of working, ensuring consistency and scalability across Procurement
• Define, implement, and continuously improve sourcing, negotiation, and supplier management standards
• Act as a structured driver of governance, ensuring transparency and discipline across all procurement activities

Value Delivery & Performance Management

• Own and govern the savings pipeline, ensuring robust tracking, validation, and benefit realization
• Proactively and persistently engage stakeholders to secure accurate data, timelines, and commitments
• Apply a project management approach to all key initiatives, ensuring milestones, risks, and dependencies are actively managed

Sustainable Procurement

• Lead and further develop the Sustainable Procurement agenda, embedding ESG principles into sourcing and supplier management
• Ensure sustainability is integrated into category strategies and supplier selection criteria

Operational Excellence & Processes

• Own end-to-end Source-to-Pay (S2P) process design, ensuring efficiency, compliance, and scalability
• Define and maintain buying channel strategies and digital tool adoption
• Lead continuous improvement initiatives with a structured, data-driven, and solution-oriented mindset

Cross-functional Collaboration & Influence

• Act as a persuasive and credible partner to stakeholders across Procurement, Finance, Supply Chain, and Legal
• Gently but consistently challenge and follow up to ensure timely delivery of inputs and adherence to standards

Strategic Development

• Drive a culture of continuous improvement, accountability, and value creation
• Contribute to the long-term maturity of Procurement, including capability building and operating model evolution
• Bring structured thinking combined with “out-of-the-box” problem solving to improve processes and outcomes

Behaviors & Success Profile

• Persuasive and persistent communicator – able to influence without authority and ensure follow-through
• Highly organized and structured thinker – capable of bringing clarity to complexity while enabling innovation
• Strong project management mindset – plans, prioritizes, and executes with discipline
• Category Management-oriented – understands value levers and drives strategic procurement impact
• Proactive and improvement-driven – constantly identifies and implements better ways of working
• Sustainability-minded – integrates ESG considerations into decision-making

What We Expect

• MSc in Business, Economics, or equivalent preferred
• 5+ years of experience in Procurement, Procurement Excellence, or Performance Management
• Strong Category Management experience and understanding of end-to-end S2P processes
• Proven track record in project management and driving cross-functional initiatives
• Exposure to Sustainable Procurement / ESG initiatives
• Strong stakeholder management and influencing skills in complex, matrix organizations

What We Offer

• Competitive compensation and benefit package
• „Nordic-style” culture – dynamic teamwork, good working atmosphere
• Opportunity to learn and develop
• Stable international company background
• Multinational working environment
• Home office opportunity

Xellia Pharmaceuticals is the global leader in fermentation-based, non-beta-lactam anti-infectives, supplying Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients (APIs) and Finished Dosage Forms (FDFs) to over 500 pharmaceutical companies across 80 countries.

Recognized by the World Health Organization and the European Union for our critical medicines, we play a vital role in combating severe infections and antimicrobial resistance. Headquartered in Denmark, we operate manufacturing sites in Copenhagen, Denmark; Budapest, Hungary; and Taizhou, China, with R&D and commercial operations in seven additional locations globally. As the only European manufacturer of several key anti-infectives and with a heritage spanning over 120 years, we are driven by purpose and progress.

With more than 1100 employees, our impact starts from within. We offer a workplace where ideas, curiosity, and initiative thrive, and where your role evolves with your ambition. Instead of rigid structures, we provide real responsibility, freedom to explore, and support to grow. Together, we shape not only the future of our company and the development of our people, but also the health of communities worldwide.

Further information about Xellia can be found at: www.xellia.com
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