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My Linh Hoangova

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

Personal Information

Citizenship: Czech

Software

SAP, SAP ARIBA

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

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