Senior Specialist Procurement (f/m/d)

Senior Specialist Procurement (f/m/d)

Date posted: April 2024
Location: Vienna, Austria

About HOOKIPA:

HOOKIPA Pharma Inc. (NASDAQ: HOOK) is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company focused on developing novel immunotherapies that mobilize and amplify targeted T cells to address unmet needs in cancer or to fight infectious diseases. HOOKIPA is leveraging its proprietary, versatile platform to engineer a broad pipeline of differentiated arenaviral therapeutics. These novel immunotherapies induce robust antigen-specific killer T cells to a broad range of self and non-self antigens, including viral antigens, tumor-associated antigens and neoantigens. HOOKIPA's platform technology uses replicating viral vectors based on the target cancer, with the potential to induce killer T cell response levels previously not achieved by other immunotherapy approaches. HOOKIPA's pipeline includes wholly-owned investigational arenaviral immunotherapeutics targeting HPV16+ cancers, prostate cancer, KRAS-mutated cancers (including colorectal, pancreatic and lung), and other undisclosed projects. In addition, the company aims to develop functional cures of HBV and HIV in collaboration with Gilead.

Position Summary:

The Senior Specialist Procurement is responsible for providing efficient, timely, and effective procurement services to both internal and external customers. In this role, you will execute purchase orders for goods and services, maintain master data, and collaborate on the vendor selection, negotiation, and contracting processes.

Main Responsibilities:

* Execute purchase orders for goods and services.
* Oversee the Procure2Pay process and align with other involved stakeholders such as Material Management, Accounting, and Controlling.
* Continuously strive to ensure a best-in-class master data landscape.
* Obtain offers and perform proposal analysis.
* Manage supplier performance issues, damages, and complaints.
* Actively identify cost-saving and process improvement opportunities.
* Conduct supplier selection, price negotiation, and negotiation of other terms and standard supply agreements.
* Maintain the quality of procurement services through metrics and feedback from internal customer groups.

Qualifications & Skills:

* HAK and/or BA in Economics, Business Management, Supply Chain, Procurement, or a similar field.
* Minimum 3 years of professional experience in operative or strategic procurement, supply chain management, or a similar field, preferably in the Life Science industry.
* Experience negotiating pricing, terms, and conditions.
* Excellent computer software skills with Office365 and ERP software (experience with SAP Business by Design is a plus).
* Experience reading and understanding contractual terms and conditions.
* Experience working in a global, intercultural environment.
* Ability to communicate effectively with a wide range of individuals on all organizational levels and across cultures.
* Customer-oriented service mentality combined with "gatekeeper" skills.
* Fluent in English and German

What we offer:

* Strong team with dedicated and passionate researchers
* State of the art infrastructure
* Excellent working atmosphere
* Opportunities for personal development
* Employee benefits such as health screening, public transportation card, Sodexo pass
* Working in a multinational and multicultural environment
* Flexible Working Hours
* After training phase: home-office possibility up to 40% of working time

We are required by Austrian law to post a minimum salary. The minimum monthly gross salary for this position is EUR 3.554, - based on fulltime (14 monthly salaries per annum/ 40 hours per week); depending on experience and qualification the salary can be negotiated. In addition, we offer a performance-related bonus payment and participation in our stock option compensation program.

Starting date: as soon as possible

Contact:

If you (m/f/d) are interested in this challenging position, please send us your CV including a cover letter (summarizing your qualification and experiences) as well as your credentials

For more information on HOOKIPA please visit www.hookipapharma.com