Executive Director, Procurement
About The Position
The Executive Director leads a procurement team responsible for providing sourcing & supplier management support across Discovery, Pre-Clinical & Translational Medicine and Development Sciences & Clinical Supply, Research and Development Division (R&D). The Executive Director will lead the development of procurement strategy, guiding and implementing global category management while supporting business stakeholders in achieving operational delivery and performance through the supplier base. The incumbent will develop and maintain strong relationships with key executive business leaders across R&D and serve as a bridge to enable analytical and process tech transfers to our Manufacturing Division.
Requirements
- 10 years procurement and business management experience.
- Demonstrated executive presence
- Strong communication skills and ability to drive change in an environment of scientific innovation and ambiguity.
- Clinical Supply Chain Management
- Commercial Contract Negotiations
- Cultural Awareness
- Customer-Oriented
- Global Team Management
- Global Travel Management
- Governance Management
- IT Project Leadership
- Leadership
- Life Science
- Organizational Culture
- Organizational Development (OD)
- Pharmaceutical Sciences
- Procurement
- Procurement Consulting
- Procurement Strategies
- Stakeholder Engagement
- Strategic Procurement Planning
- Succession Planning
- Supplier Management
- Supplier Relationship Management
- Supply Chain Metrics
- Supply Chain Processes
- Sustainability Initiatives
Nice To Haves
- Broad base of core pharma R&D, Research and Direct procurement category knowledge preferred, including specific R&D experience in small and large molecule pipeline portfolio covering early discovery & development phase, pharmaceutical sciences as well as pre-clinical development segments.
Responsibilities
- As a key leader of a category of spend (exceeding $1.5 Billion annually), responsible for developing and implementing sourcing strategy and ensuring alignment, compliance and delivery of required business performance.
- Build a core team of procurement professionals who have direct responsibility for sourcing of projects. Responsibility includes effective talent management, proactively building a recruitment bench & succession planning.
- Adopt high quality change practices with customers and stakeholders, building and implementing an organizational culture which is customer focused, results driven and sustainable. Be a personal exemplar of our company's Enterprise Leadership Skills.
- Deliver ongoing value capture targets as required, as well as meeting critical business requirements for AQSCI.
- Build outstanding relationships with the business stakeholder community, fellow procurement and finance professionals and our company's supplier network.
- Ensure that the approach adopted is aligned with and supports our company's global procurement strategy and Global Category Management and Ways of Working.
- Actively support sustainability efforts, which include but are not limited to expanding engagement with new suppliers to provide opportunities for economic inclusion and championing environmental sustainability goals across Scopes 1, 2 and 3.
Benefits
- medical, dental, vision healthcare and other insurance benefits (for employee and family)
- retirement benefits, including 401(k)
- paid holidays
- vacation
- compassionate and sick days
- annual bonus
- long-term incentive
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Executive
