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Strategic Sourcing: Actively contribute to the development and implementation of sourcing strategies for R&D Material Procurement. Achieve Significant Synergies and Cost Savings:
Proactively support Material Procurement category assessment teams to ensure that all potential opportunities for operational, quality, and financial synergies are identified, tracked, and implemented. Contract Management:
Develop and foster relationships with preferred/alliance suppliers to ensure clear communication, create an environment of partnership, and agreed-to contractually committed levels of service, quality, delivery, and cost.
Requirement Definitions: Proactively work with business partners to identify sourcing and contracting requirements in advance of supplier communications to ensure clear specifications, requirements, and alignment across the client team prior to initiating requests or agreements with suppliers.
Request Proposals: Follow a high-quality, consistent, expeditious, and effective process to ensure that the proper sources of supply are evaluated and selected to support the business need.
Will prepare, finalize, and distribute requests for proposal to suppliers with a team of internal client stakeholders.
Negotiate Agreements: Negotiate master services, confidentiality, service standards, and other supplier agreements based on client templates and with the support of client functional and legal teams to ensure high quality, provide clarity, obtain competitive costs, document timelines, and mitigate risk.
Category Profile: Document and maintain a comprehensive category profile for the R&D/Material Procurement category. In alignment with client’s core competencies, the incumbent must demonstrate the following behaviors and abilities:
Deliver Business Results:
(1) understand client’s business requirements, and clearly include these within supplier contracts,
(2) demonstrate and apply functional knowledge, experiences, and management skills to promote team performance and continual improvement across the organization’s work with R&D services suppliers,
(3) ensure applicable suppliers execute services as committed, and
(4) handle issue resolution for outsourced services.
Enhance Organizational Performance:
(1) foster clear, consistent, and open collaboration across the extended client and supplier teams,
(2) identify and pursue new ideas and constructive change to support improved execution from both client and our suppliers, and
(3) support the issue escalation process at the operational level and ensure timely escalation to senior leadership.
Demonstrate Personal Leadership:
(1) act with integrity, initiative, and sound judgment to reinforce trust, professionalism, and commitments,
(2) communicate regularly, openly, and effectively both within client and to our suppliers, as appropriate, and
(3) inspire and empower peers, client team and suppliers, as appropriate, to achieve and exceed objectives.
Experience:
Minimum of 3 years in biotechnology/ pharmaceutical industry or equivalent experience. Ideally has 1 years direct experience in a chemical outsourcing/contracts function. Ideally, with direct engagement with API suppliers and other chemical suppliers such as excipient suppliers.
Licensure/Credentials: None required, however a C.P.M., C.P.I.M., Project Management, Lean, Six Sigma, or other relevant certifications a plus.
Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:
Must demonstrated ability to lead the development of contract management processes.
Excellent ability to communicate effectively with executives and senior leaders, both internally and externally.
Excellent business/financial acumen, proficient in leading and managing cross-functional teams. Ability to lead, motivate, influence and drive change at all levels of the organization.
Ability to understand the factors affecting the finances and/or operations of suppliers.
Excellent global supplier management skills with ability foster and leverage professional relationships.
Ability to identify and solve complex contractual, process, operational business challenges , and know when to seek assistance.
Clear understanding of R&D supplier and sponsor businesses, financial drivers, & competencies. Willing to travel domestically and internationally 10-20% of the time.
Education Required: Bachelor’s degree in business or relevant technical discipline
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