Category Associate – Consulting

About the role

Bengaluru, the city, which is India’s epicenter of Innovation, has been selected to be home to Takeda’s recently launched Innovation Capability Center. We invite you to join our digital transformation journey. In this role, you will have the opportunity to boost your skills and become the heart of an innovative engine that is contributing to global impact and improvement.

What you'll do

• Lead and support assigned category initiatives from opportunity identification through strategy development, sourcing, negotiation, implementation and value realization
• Proactively identify opportunities across cost, innovation, risk, sustainability and operational performance through stakeholder engagement, spend analysis
• Maintain a pipeline of initiatives and recommendations
• Build and manage relationships with assigned global and regional stakeholders, translating business priorities into actionable procurement and category initiatives
• Lead the development of category strategies and recommendations for assigned areas, incorporating stakeholder priorities, spend analysis, market intelligence

What you need

• Market research
• Process improvement
• Project management
• ERP
• SAP
• Stakeholder management

Good to have

• Performance management