34 Sourcing Manager jobs in Ireland
Strategic Sourcing Manager
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**What will you do?**
+ Create and implement regional procurement strategies for the Corporate Services & IT categories that are innovative and cost effective and incorporate the growing complexities and challenges across Red Hat's operating expenses for EMEA
+ Partner with key Corporate Services & IT stakeholders and budget owners on appropriate spending strategies and guide strategic sourcing initiatives
+ Select supplier sources by driving competitive sourcing activities
+ Manage all activities related to sourcing, supplier evaluation, and business awards
+ Implement robust contracts with selected suppliers and negotiate optimal terms and conditions
+ Build strategic relationships and manage supplier performance for key suppliers via stakeholder feedback and performance-based metrics
+ Lead transformational activities to build procurement organisational capabilities and improve procurement efficiency
**What will you bring?**
+ 5+ years of strategic procurement experience ideally within Corporate Services & IT categories
+ Broad understanding of Corporate Services & IT supplier landscape within EMEA
+ Excellent communication, time management, and interpersonal skills
+ Experience developing and leading strategic sourcing initiatives for the indirect Corporate Services & IT spend categories
+ Strong analytical skills demonstrated in performing bid analysis, cost analysis, fair-value analysis, and scenario modeling
+ Complex problem-solving skills with the ability to develop and implement creative solutions;
+ Strong experience with contract negotiations
+ Experience building relationships with a diverse set of stakeholders and suppliers
+ Demonstrated persuasion skills and the ability to gain agreement among a wide range of stakeholders
+ Experience leading multi-disciplined projects with minimal amount of supervision
+ Solid understanding of potential InfoSec, Data Privacy, and Legal requirements from a contractual and policy perspective
+ Customer service-oriented with the ability to work as part of a team
+ Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English; additional language skills are a plus
+ Bachelor's degree in business, finance, supply chain, or a related field
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Procurement Category and Contracts Manager, Infrastructure Planning and Sourcing

Posted 27 days ago
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AWS Infrastructure Services owns the design, planning, delivery, and operation of all AWS global infrastructure. In other words, we're the people who keep the cloud running. We support all AWS data centers and all of the servers, storage, networking, power, and cooling equipment that ensure our customers have continual access to the innovation they rely on. We work on the most challenging problems, with thousands of variables impacting the supply chain - and we're looking for talented people who want to help.
You'll join a diverse team of software, hardware, and network engineers, supply chain specialists, security experts, operations managers, and other vital roles. You'll collaborate with people across AWS to help us deliver the highest standards for safety and security while providing seemingly infinite capacity at the lowest possible cost for our customers. And you'll experience an inclusive culture that welcomes bold ideas and empowers you to own them to completion.
Amazon Web Services provides a highly reliable, scalable, and low-cost cloud platform that powers thousands of businesses in over 190 countries. AWS' Infrastructure Supply Chain & Procurement organization works to deliver solutions to source, build and maintain our socially responsible data center supply chains. We are a team of highly-motivated, engaged, and responsive professionals who enable the core sustainable infrastructure of AWS. Come join our team and be a part of history as we deliver results for the largest cloud services company on Earth!
The IPS Procurement Category Management Org is responsible for the procurement of all third party provided services required for the operation of our Data Center infrastructure globally, including Colo and Edge facilities for externally delivered services not provided by the facility owner. The team is responsible for the identification, onboarding and performance management of suppliers as well as developing category strategies, conducting competitive tendering processes, supplier negotiations and the preparation of associated Work Orders.
The team is structured into three regions, each led by a regional manager, with each regional team composed of category managers with responsibility for the management of specific areas of spend within the region and a cohort of procurement specialists who support the category managers. The category management approach facilitates a strategic approach to procurement by facilitating in depth market analysis coupled with a cross functional approach to identify supplier and associated contracting options which are focused on meeting the particular needs of the business. Category management moves beyond traditional transactional based purchasing negotiations to provide a strategic approach to longer term, sustainable cost reductions, reducing risk and increasing resiliency in the supply base and facilitating innovation from within the supply base that the business can leverage.
This is a regional role within the IPS: Procurement -Category Management team responsible for contract negotiations and managing sourcing of third party provided services required for the operations of our Data Center infrastructure. The role specifically manages the category scope of sourcing within the Environment Health & Safety domain. The role is also responsible for working with the multiple AWS teams (including EHS program teams, legal teams and Professional Services team) to ensure SOWs and contracting terms are in compliance with legal requirements.
While cost reduction will always be a key focus of the team, the principle cynosure of the team is the delivery of services that are keenly focused on increasing reliability and supporting enhanced availability through robust relationships which support continuity of operations. As service and quality levels can vary greatly, principally based on the skill set within a supplier local organization, the regional structure facilitates tailoring of category strategies to meet local market considerations and closely monitor supplier performance at the local level.
Key job responsibilities
Category Management
The ideal candidate thinks long term, drives multiple initiatives, and communicates appropriately and influences internal partner teams and suppliers at all levels. You must be collaborative, but also work with significant autonomy. To be successful in this role you must be highly analytical; think strategically and globally; have a sense of urgency to meet customer timelines; exhibit curiosity and learning drive; succeed in a fast-paced environment; engage and influence key stakeholders; and have a high level of customer focus and business judgement. Also, you must have a demonstrated track record of managing multiple projects and driving them to completion to meet business objectives. It will be critical to embrace and model Amazon's Leadership Principles and have an entrepreneurial spirit with a "get it done" mentality.
- Manage a critical categories with the Environment, Health and Safety Domain.
- Achieve cost savings through bidding and negotiations, drive collaboration to achieve long term value delivery.
- Obtain market intelligence, analyze category data and metrics to drive Procurement category strategies.
- Understand trends in customers' needs and concerns, across categories and regions, to influence customers' priorities.
- Lead supplier selection process across multiple sub-categories, internal teams, and regions, and create longer-term supplier selection strategies for management.
- Ensure you are knowledgeable about the supply market, new innovations and supplier capabilities, technically and geographically.
- Ensure you are knowledgeable about sustainability, diversity, in-country value and have experience developing category strategies to incorporate same.
- Develop mechanisms and metrics to track supplier performance related to delivery, quality, and cost.
- Create supplier scorecards to measure and track supplier performance.
- Lead business reviews to discuss best practices and issues and to ultimately improve supplier performance and strengthen business partnerships.
- Innovate within the procurement space, automating and/or improving tools or processes to better support the Procurement Lifecycle.
- Provide support throughout the contracting process, as well as SRM and management of contracts post-execution.
Contract Management
- Drafting key commercial contract terms within an AWS statement of work, work orders and work order amendments
- Communicate daily with cross functional teams including peers within the IPS -CM team, Legal, Infra-Operations and Security & EHS program.
- Proactively identify and implement operational improvements and enhancements that meet business requirements
- Participate in continuous process improvement projects such as creating and maintaining standard operating procedures
- Become the SOW creation subject matter expert
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Basic Qualifications
1. Bachelor's Degree from an accredited university or equivalent combination of education and experience
2. 8+ years' experience in a Procurement organization performing vendor management, contract management, negotiating complex purchases and bidding.
3. Experience with driving category strategies, developing pricing models, and having influence across all levels of an organization.
4. Experience as a Project Manager who can prioritize workload and manage complex projects within cost and schedule.
5. Experience in drafting key contract terms for statement of works, contract amendments and work orders or a broad range of standard commercial contracts.
6. Irish Citizenship to work on UK and Germany Goverment Cloud sites
Preferred Qualifications
1. Ability to Experience to communicate and report on market intelligence data, including commodity trends and labor indexes.
2. Demonstrated success Experience in driving strategies and analyzing market trends.
3. Experience in data centers, engineering, an infrastructure service provider or similar technology company.
4. Experience with creating Procurement systems and tools.
5. Proven ability to Experience in implement category strategies globally and Proven ability to deep dive and develop innovative ideas for process challenges.
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Manager, Supply Chain

Posted 4 days ago
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AbbVie's mission is to discover and deliver innovative medicines and solutions that solve serious health issues today and address the medical challenges of tomorrow. We strive to have a remarkable impact on people's lives across several key therapeutic areas - immunology, oncology, neuroscience, and eye care - and products and services in our Allergan Aesthetics portfolio. For more information about AbbVie, please visit us at Follow @abbvie on X, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, LinkedIn and Tik Tok ( .
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AbbVie Cork is a dynamic Oral Solid Dosage (OSD) site, producing a diverse portfolio of innovative technologies and products.
We are currently sourcing a Supply Chain Manager to join our site leadership team, reporting to our Site Head. The Supply Chain Manager leads all supply chain and warehouse activities related to supply of current products and new product launches.
This includes coaching and mentorship of an experienced and skilled team across Demand Management and Supply Levelling, Master Scheduling, Materials Requirements Planning (MRP), and Warehouse/Storage management.
It's a key role for our site and one where you will have the opportunity to develop a lasting and rewarding career with AbbVie.
Here is a snapshot of your responsibilities:
+ Ensure the development and delivery of the Supply Chain organizational vision and strategic objectives.
+ Build, develop and mentor a team of diverse professionals within your function.
+ Partner with the Senior Leadership team to execute on the site and enterprise-wide strategy.
+ Develop relationships with internal and external stakeholders to ensure product availability, with full alignment to production plan while driving continuous improvements to sustain Operational Excellence and improved financial performance across your team.
+ Take responsibility for Health & Safety, as well as the core Environmental and Energy Sustainability Programmes within the Supply Chain function.
+ Develop senior level relationships with suppliers to resolve critical issues, deliver cost savings, and implement value-added processes.
+ Monitor and achieve optimal inventory turnover consistent with plant efficiencies, customer service and distribution requirements.
+ Ensure that the internal rolling forecast file, which is used to track inventory, production schedule adherence, production batch status and shipment schedule adherence is maintained.
+ Identify and implement continuous improvement Projects in the Supply Chain and WH Areas.
+ Work with the quality system ensuring that the site quality policy and GMP and GDP is fully complied with on a continuous basis.
+ Ensure Known consignor certification is maintained
+ Contribute to the development of the Global Supply Chain Function, i.e. become an active participant of the global team.
+ Champion and lead Culture & Engagement and EEDI initiatives in Supply Chain function and across the site.
Qualifications
+ Bachelor's degree in supply chain management, engineering, or science with 5 years plus experience in supply chain management.
+ 5 year + People Management with demonstrated ability to develop key talent and to set clear vision and strategy for your team
+ OPEX Black / Green belt certified preferably
+ Experience in engaging, collaborating, and influencing at senior leadership level
+ Ability to think outside the box and provide solutions through structured trouble shooting methodologies
Additional Information
AbbVie is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to operating with integrity, driving innovation, transforming lives and serving our community. Equal Opportunity Employer/Veterans/Disabled.
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Supply Chain Specialist
Posted 11 days ago
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Abbott is a global healthcare leader that helps people live more fully at all stages of life. Our portfolio of life-changing technologies spans the spectrum of healthcare, with leading businesses and products in diagnostics, medical devices, nutritional's and branded generic medicines. Our 114,000 colleagues serve people in more than 160 countries.
**Abbott in Ireland**
Abbott has been operating in Ireland since 1946 and serves the Irish market with a diverse range of healthcare products including diagnostics, diabetes care, medical devices and nutritional products. In Ireland, Abbott currently employs about 6,000 people across ten sites located in Dublin, Donegal, Clonmel, Cootehill, Galway, Kilkenny, Longford and Sligo.
**Abbott Diabetes Care Kilkenny**
Abbott Diabetes Care has opened a new site, in Kilkenny, that is at the forefront of Diabetes care with the latest technology, to manufacture FreeStyle blood glucose test strips and FreeStyle Sensors for use in diabetes management. Among Abbott Diabetes Care leading brands are the FreeStyle Precision, FreeStyle Lite and FreeStyle Libre systems.
**Key Responsibilities**
**Indirect Materials & Operational Support**
+ Coordinate consumables planning with suppliers and operational teams.
+ Monitor and manage indirect inventory levels to ensure availability
+ Review and approve indirect material requisitions in line with internal processes.
+ Support departments with requisition creation, issue resolution, and site project requirements.
+ Assist with goods receipt and confirmation processes to ensure timely and accurate records.
**Invoice & Supplier Coordination**
+ Collaborate with internal teams and suppliers to resolve invoice discrepancies.
+ Facilitate supplier set up process in coordination with Procurement, Finance, Supplier Quality, and Master Data Governance.
**Documentation & Process Support**
+ Maintain and update procedures and documentation for the Purchasing/Logistics team, providing flexible operational support where needed.
**Reporting & Analysis**
+ Analyze supply chain data and maintain key reports (open orders, invoice tracking, indirect inventory) to support operational efficiency.
+ Provide insights and recommendations that inform purchasing decisions and strategies
**Qualifications & Skills**
+ Relevant 3rd level education
+ Experience in supply chain operations, materials planning, and purchasing/buying; a strong background in purchasing, particularly in indirect materials or site operations, is highly desirable.
+ Strong analytical and reporting skills; proficiency in Excel, Word, or similar tools. Experience with Power BI is a plus.
+ Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.
+ Familiarity with ERP systems such as SAP.
+ Ability to work flexibly across to support evolving operational needs.
**What we Offer**
Attractive compensation package that includes competitive pay, as well as benefits such as
+ Family health insurance,
+ Excellent pension scheme
+ Life assurance
+ Career Development
+ Fantastic new facility
+ Growing business plus access to many more benefits.
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Abbott is an equal opportunities employer.
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Abbot welcomes and encourages diversity in our workforce.
We provide reasonable accommodation to qualified individuals with disabilities.
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Internship Supply Chain

Posted 27 days ago
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+ Contribute to meaningful, challenging projects with a direct impact on our business
+ Have regular access to senior leadership providing you with an opportunity to grow and learn from the best each day
+ Develop your career and grow your knowledge through targeted training, a global intern community, and the opportunity to build your network
+ Access perks that keep you supported both inside and outside the office
**The Opportunity**
Our Interns provides a meaningful, professional, hands-on experience to students with proven academic performance and leadership potential. We hire students majoring in (Supply Chain) into our programs based on business needs. Ideal candidates will combine technical and business knowledge with analytical strength and creative problem-solving abilities.
Abbott's global business offers opportunities to work across a range of fields, which may include the following areas, along with additional activities depending on business needs:
Supply Chain
+ Logistics Improvement
+ Materials Planning
+ Purchasing.
+ Production Scheduling and Capacity Planning
+ Volume planning
**What are we looking for?**
Eligible applicants should be:
+ Available for a 6, 9 or 12month placement to start between January to June 2026 (aligned with academic work placements dates)
+ Internship placements may be during or at the end of your undergraduate or post graduate course.
+ Pursuing a relevant third level undergraduate or post graduate qualification in Supply Chain / Business Studies a discipline listed above.
+ Candidates must be tracking to or have a minimum of 2.1 Grade in their undergraduate course.
+ Excellent communicators, team players and Innovators.
+ Passionate about STEM and interested in pursuing a career in a STEM environment.
+ A flexible and innovative approach to work.
+ Flexibility to be based at one of our Abbott sites listed above
**Locations**
Cavan, Longford, Sligo
Career growth and future opportunities are pillars of our program. Students who continuously excel in our early career programs are encouraged to apply for Abbott's Professional Development Programs or other full-time positions.
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Supply chain planner
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Supply Chain Graduate Program
Posted 11 days ago
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This well-structured programme will offer the successful graduate an opportunity to build on their recent qualifications and gain excellent, relevant on the job experience to assist their career progression.
This is a 22-month contract where you will learn and spend time experiencing aspects of our Supply Chain function including our Customer Service, Planning & Logistics teams. Working with a world-renowned brand, you can avail of our many wonderful initiatives, participate in our further education opportunities via our education assistance program, get involved in volunteer projects and so much more!
On completion of the program, successful candidates will be ready for a Supply Chain position. These positions will be commencing in January 2026.
**What you will do for us**
+ Support the team on a wide range of process Initiatives activities in line with our Supply Chain strategy.
+ Engagement with our key stakeholders to ensure timely follow up on all communications and requests.
+ Support our digital transformation journey & apply operational excellence tools and techniques to continuously improve our processes and eliminate waste.
+ Perform adequate checks on our processes and standards to drive improvements in our cost structure and flexibilities in supplies.
+ Support the metrics, monitor daily, weekly, and monthly performance to plan by gathering information from plant and inventory systems.
+ Maintaining our procedures & guidelines- ensure our Standard Operating Procedures (SOP's) are up to date and in compliance with our company standards.
+ Support the team with other ad hoc duties as required.
**Education Requirements, Skills & Work experience**
+ Recent bachelor's degree or master's graduate (2024/2025) in Business specializing in either business administration, finance, or data analytics preferable.
+ Business proficiency in English an additional European language is an advantage.
+ Work experience (Internship) within a Supply Chain environment would be an advantage.
+ Excellent aptitude for data and technology with strong attention to detail and adherence to procedures.
+ Curious, motivated with the ability to work on own initiative.
+ Demonstrated organizational skills with the ability to prioritize tasks and work according to tight deadlines.
+ Strong interpersonal skills with the ability to communicate effectively & concisely.
+ Be flexible and a great team player.
We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and do not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, color, sex, age, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, status as a veteran, and basis of disability or any other federal, state or local protected class.
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