POSITION SUMMARY:
A member of the Global Procurement Team, the Global Indirect Procurement Manager will be a valued business partner to Business Functions including Research and Development, Commercial and Manufacturing and Supply.
The Indirect Procurement Manager creates a competitive business advantage by delivering exceptional results in performance, innovation, quality, and total cost from their Indirect Suppliers.
ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:
The responsibilities of this role include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Leads and/or supports key business function strategic supplier relationships to ensure holistic and sustained value delivery in improved risk, performance, quality, and innovation.
- Collaborates with the Head of Global Indirect Procurement to deliver complex and/or strategic sourcing projects that align with business objectives and deliver significant tangible value to the organization.
- Collaborates with Stakeholders to support supplier planning, budgeting and risk management activities for their functions.
- Develops sourcing plans collaboratively with Stakeholders to deliver best results in minimizing risk and costs, and delivering additional value levers and innovation to the organization.
- Designs, implements and maintains accurate and reliable spend and savings reporting with respect to projects and suppliers.
- Monitors execution against procurement plans and total cost of ownership savings delivery while meeting business requirements.
- Ensures compliance to all company policies and government laws.
- Works directly with project team members, suppliers, contractors, consultants and interns to define project requirements and scopes of work, requests for proposal and bid submittals.
- Initiates RFPs/RFQs/RFSs, analyses bids, negotiates for best and final offer and awards bid packages.
- Duties involve applying sound contracting principles and practices coupled with procurement guidelines, business policies and procedures.
- Negotiates complex purchasing agreements.
- Provides guidance, coaching and mentorship to the Indirect Procurement Intern.
- Works with legal to initiate agreements, evaluates contract terms, adherence to agreed upon scope of work and follows through to signed execution.
- Manages administrative provisions of the agreement including the deliverables, performance period and agreement value.
MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:
Education: BA/BS in Life Sciences, Business, Finance, Marketing, Supply Chain or other Operations related field.
Experience:
- Demonstrable experience and results in indirect procurement and/or strategic sourcing.
- Minimum 5 years of experience within the pharmaceutical industry.
