Associate Director, R&D Business Partner - Sourcing & Procurement

AstraZeneca • Los Angeles, CA

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About The Position

This role focuses on the development and deployment of global category strategies and initiatives, leading major supplier relationships, developing deeper relationships with stakeholder groups through effective business partnering, and ensuring that underpinning process improvement and procurement activities deliver expected business value. The Associate Director, R&D Business Partner - Sourcing & Procurement role has a global remit and accountability for a category in the R&D space. In this role, you will be responsible for developing long-term strategic plans for an entire spend category within AstraZeneca. You will manage stakeholder and supplier relationships to ensure that category strategies are highly aligned to current and future business needs and that the supply base is capable of supporting these strategies. You will lead project initiatives tied to the category strategies to deliver value to the business, lead the implementation of sustainability initiatives with vendors, and lead complex contractual and commercial negotiations. You will work alongside key stakeholders and align with GPS (Global Procurement Services). You will ensure a data-driven approach to category management and high-quality analytics to deliver insights, capabilities, and results.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent
• 7+ years of experience in a procurement environment
• Significant experience of Category Management (preferably in R&D/Pharma)
• Project management, change management and people leadership skills
• Good solid understanding of the pharmaceutical industry
• Strong communication skills and ability to influence others
• Comfort with risk and ambiguous situations

Nice To Haves

• #CellTherapy

Responsibilities

• Lead implementation of category plans to ensure that the underpinning process improvement and procurement activities deliver business value in accordance with the strategic plan and help towards our Sustainability targets.
• Develop long term strategic plans for agreed scope of spend area, with a focus on delivering broader value, innovation, and savings.
• Support the team in strategic relationship management (customer and supplier) - ensuring Category Strategies are fully aligned to current and future Business need, and we maintain a supply base capable of supporting these strategies.
• Work alongside Global Procurement Services (GPS) advising on and driving procurement strategies to make decisions necessary to make purchases in congruence with organizational objectives.
• Advise on contracts and agreements for the supply of sophisticated products and services with new and existing suppliers
• Cross functionally support Global procurement colleagues and collaborate on setting and completing the strategy.

Benefits

• qualified retirement programs
• paid time off (i.e., vacation, holiday, and leaves)
• health, dental, and vision coverage

What This Job Offers

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