SAP, SAP ARIBA
My Linh Hoangova
Senior Procurement Professional | Consultant | Category & Strategy Management
Ljubljana
Summary
Experienced professional in category management with a strong ability to drive strategic sourcing and optimize procurement processes. Skilled in fostering team collaboration, achieving results, and adapting to evolving requirements. Proficient in vendor negotiation, market analysis, and budget oversight. Recognized for reliability, clear communication, and leadership in diverse settings.
Overview
15
15
years of professional experience
1
1
year of post-secondary education
7
7
Languages
Work History
Senior Category Manager FDF - Finished Dosage Forms
Sandoz
01.2024 - Current
Global Procurement Manager - Excipients
Novartis Group
09.2020 - 01.2024
- Enhance profit margins across all business sectors.
- Formulate and execute a strategy to align the procurement function with business objectives, focusing on value addition, mitigating supply chain risks, and achieving cost savings.
- Cultivate and manage strategic supplier relationships, oversee contract development and management to drive continuous improvement in goods and services delivery.
- Assess contracts and provide recommendations on commercial viability.
- Accountable for annual purchasing budgets, forecasts, capital expenditure proposals, and ensuring compliance with customer and legal standards, managing projects from inception to completion.
- Strategic forecasting of demand for goods and services.
- Develop policies and procedures for efficient and productive purchasing, ensuring optimal supply chain production and operation.
- Being at the forefront of market trends, current prices, and fair rates for goods.
- Evaluate bids and quotes from suppliers, negotiate service agreements and contracts. Identify sources for purchasing.
- Lead and supervise Cluster Procurement team.
- Foster effective communication among teams under your leadership to facilitate information exchange and drive change and improvements.
- Collaborate with the senior management team to contribute to overall business objectives.
Procurement Category Manager
Zentiva Group, a.s. - part of SANOFI
03.2019 - 03.2020
- Develop global strategies.
- Manage sourcing activities; perform RFI/RFP/RFQ/contract management process and analyze the provided proposals.
- Negotiate and conclude contracts (including SLA, OLA, GSA, SA).
- Lead wide enterprises projects with cost savings effects.
- Communicate, align and collaborate with critical stakeholders (Supply chain, CommOps, Launch management, Sourcing Manufacturing Strategy, Quality, Regulatory, IP, Finance, Development, etc.) to plan and to consolidate business needs.
- Lead key projects for improvement.
Head of Procurement / Vendor management team
ELC Group - part of PLG Group
03.2015 - 03.2019
- Develop a long-term strategy to facilitate improvements for Procurement Services according to agreed KPI's.
- Liaise with Senior Management to understand details of business direction and communicate information back to Procurement/Vendor management team where necessary.
- Ensure the implementation of procurement strategies across the company to ensure consistent and high-quality value delivery.
- Develop sourcing and procurement activities.
- Maintain strong working relationships with strategic suppliers.
- Lead rigorous and objective contract negotiations (including SLA, OLA, GSA, SA).
- Advise to Business Development team on client's requests and supporting the sales efforts to meet company's KPI's.
- Ensure responses are provided to Requests for Information (RFI) and Requests for Proposal (RFP) in a timely manner.
- Recruit, train, manage the performance and supervise the team.
Contract Representative
ICON plc
09.2013 - 02.2015
- Ensure the successful negotiation and on-going management of clinical trial agreements with investigative sites.
- Work cross functionally to support of timely site startup for the conduct of clinical trials including an accurate forecast of contract execution timelines.
- Communicate and explain legal/ budgetary issues to internal and external parties per department guidelines.
Assistant for Corporate Tax and Transfer Pricing
PWC (Pricewaterhouse Coopers)
11.2011 - 08.2013
- Create a detailed itinerary of travel arrangement, meeting times, meal arrangements, car service requirements.
- Reconcile expense reports and information to Amex statements for internal customers and obtain the proper receipts for expense report submission.
- Coordinate with Meeting Event Manager and/or others to plan and execute events.
- Understand the databases (including SAP, ARIBA etc.) and other web-based technology used by internal customers and assist with inputting information into databases, as appropriate.
Representative
Porsche
11.2010 - 10.2011
Education
MBA - Management and healthcare
European School of Business and Management
01.2016 - 01.2017
Skills
Lean Six Sigma methodology
Risk mitigation strategies
Certified Lean Six Sigma Black Belt
DMAIC project management
Negotiation expertise
Supplier relationship management
Supplier contracts
Strategic sourcing
Pricing strategy
Sustainability initiatives
Commodity strategies
Cost containment
Raw material spend
Category planning
Cost reduction strategies
Supplier reviews
Category development
Global sourcing
Personal Information
Citizenship: Czech
Software
MICROSOFT EXCEL, POWER POINT, WORD
MS OUTLOOK
Timeline
Senior Category Manager FDF - Finished Dosage Forms
Sandoz
01.2024 - Current
Global Procurement Manager - Excipients
Novartis Group
09.2020 - 01.2024
Procurement Category Manager
Zentiva Group, a.s. - part of SANOFI
03.2019 - 03.2020
MBA - Management and healthcare
European School of Business and Management
01.2016 - 01.2017
Head of Procurement / Vendor management team
ELC Group - part of PLG Group
03.2015 - 03.2019
Contract Representative
ICON plc
09.2013 - 02.2015
Assistant for Corporate Tax and Transfer Pricing
PWC (Pricewaterhouse Coopers)
11.2011 - 08.2013
Representative
Porsche
11.2010 - 10.2011