Manager Procurement - Promotional Material

About the role

This role leads and manages the end-to-end procurement of pharmaceutical promotional materials, ensuring timely availability, cost optimization, quality compliance and alignment with marketing strategies while meeting regulatory and company standards. It supports marketing initiatives by securing high-quality promotional materials on time, which affects brand visibility, market competitiveness and revenue growth.

Key responsibilities

• Sourcing and procuring giveaways (medical gifts, branded items), printed materials (visual aids, brochures, leaflets) and event and activation materials, keeping them available for marketing plans and product launches
• Identifying, evaluating and onboarding vendors, building supplier partnerships, monitoring quality, cost and delivery, and conducting periodic vendor audits
• Driving cost savings through negotiation and strategic sourcing, optimizing spend with finance and marketing and managing budgets
• Working with marketing on demand planning and specifications, with regulatory/QA/legal on compliance of promotional content, and with finance on budgeting and payments
• Ensuring materials meet pharmaceutical regulatory requirements, ethical procurement practices and company SOPs and audit requirements
• Supporting monthly and quarterly demand forecasts, maintaining inventory control for frequent items and minimizing stockouts and excess stock
• Improving procurement processes through automation and standardization, and maintaining dashboards and KPIs

Required profile

• Bachelor's degree in supply chain; MBA preferred
• 5-8 years of relevant experience, with strong experience in promotional procurement, printing and event management
• Knowledge of pharmaceutical compliance standards

Required skills

• Strong negotiation and commercial insight
• Project management and planning, stakeholder management and communication
• Analytical thinking and problem solving