Associate Director, Procurement Management

AbbVie • Tempe, AZ

16h

About The Position

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 www.abbvie.com . Follow @abbvie on X , Facebook , Instagram , YouTube , LinkedIn and Tik Tok . Job Description Purpose Statement The Site Procurement Lead (Associate Director) is responsible for overseeing and developing end-to-end procurement processes, leading strategic sourcing to contracting activities and ensuring alignment with category strategy for the Tempe, AZ medical device manufacturing site. This role collaborates with Category Managers to lead supplier selection and management, maintains compliance with procurement policies, and administers continuous improvement initiatives.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, Supply Chain Mgmt or related field.
• Minimum of 10 years of experience in procurement, supply chain, or related business or operations function.
• Previous experience leading category teams, partnering with major suppliers, and reporting to senior leaders.
• Strong proficiency in developing high-impact executive-level deliverables.
• Comprehensive expertise in category management, including market analysis, cost and financial assessment, ensuring strategic and informed procurement decisions.
• Fluency in negotiation and bidding, adept in overseeing complex projects with a focus on effective change management.
• Strong capabilities in internal stakeholder management and influence, aligning procurement strategies with business needs and fostering collaborative supplier relationships.
• Strategic thinking and accountability, anticipating future trends, and taking responsibility for impactful procurement outcomes that challenge the status quo.
• Innovative problem-solving skills combined with a significant executive presence, enabling creative solutions and influential communication at all organizational levels.
• High cross-functional leadership abilities, conflict resolution skills, effectively navigating & harmonizing diverse team dynamics.
• Exceptional interpersonal skills and emotional intelligence, facilitating empathetic interactions, effective communication, and robust relationship-building across a matrixed organization.
• High resilience under pressure and autonomous work ethic, maintaining performance in challenging situations and making independent decisions.

Nice To Haves

• Master’s degree is preferred
• Knowledge of the pharmaceutical industry is strongly preferred.

Responsibilities

• Lead and develop consistent procurement processes, including source-to-contract planning and financial analysis, ensuring strategic and informed procurement decisions.
• Ensure aligned execution of category strategy within assigned remit, as defined by Category Managers, coordinating to shape strategic vision and inform initiatives targeting value realization.
• Ensures compliance of procurement policy and team activities to business requirements of supplier diversity and sustainability, overseeing day-to-day processes and communicating insights to senior procurement leadership.
• Drive forward the execution of supplier management strategy, including supplier selection, as developed alongside Category Managers, fostering a collaborative and innovative approach to supplier interactions.
• Oversee risk mitigation plans developed in collaboration with Category Managers, providing tactical input on supplier performance and relaying the identification of procurement risks to safeguard the organization’s interest and maintain operational resilience.
• Maintain excellence in all contract execution activities including source to contract and requisition to pay, developing and implementing strategies to identify inefficiencies in process design and execution.
• Guide the execution of continuous improvement initiatives in collaboration with the PSC team, overseeing the adoption of new processes and providing feedback and guidance to PMO stakeholders.
• Lead and nurture a team of Specialists, setting ambitious performance targets, providing tailored coaching, and evaluating team performance, site aligned Procurement support for complex local needs (manufacturing and R&D site)
• Partner with Procurement Strategy and Capability leaders and business partners to define skillsets, workforce requirements, capability needs, and long-term organizational staffing goals

Benefits

• We offer a comprehensive package of benefits including paid time off (vacation, holidays, sick), medical/dental/vision insurance and 401(k) to eligible employees.
• This job is eligible to participate in our short-term incentive programs.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Director