Senior Sourcing Manager

Exelixis-posted 4 months ago
$143,000 - $202,000/Yr
Full-time • Senior
Alameda, CA
Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services
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The Senior Manager will be a Category Manager within the Strategic Sourcing and Procurement (SS&P) department. This individual will support the Category Lead and be a point of contact from the team for the categories they are assigned and will be responsible for operations of their category and vendor pool. This individual will proactively identify opportunities, engage, and partner with business stakeholders and the Strategic Sourcing and Procurement (SS&P) team to maximize value and mitigate risk for key business initiatives and requirements. SS&P department manages outsourcing leveraging a category-based approach. Categories are established based on consolidation of like-services and areas of spend spanning Exelixis enterprise from: Discovery, Development, General and Administrative, Information Technology, Commercial, etc. For each category, there will be Category Manager(s) assigned which reports to the Category Lead and this role is seeking a candidate with functional experience to support the following categories: General & Administrative (G&A) and Commercial.

  • Support and provide thought leadership to category strategy development, optimization and management working with SS&P leadership and the business units.
  • Understand business priorities and challenges by building trusted and collaborative stakeholder relationships, thus, ensuring successful sourcing strategies.
  • Identify and recommend sourcing opportunities across the business.
  • Support or may lead vendor evaluation activities (RFIs and RFPs) and selection process including facilitation of vendor capability presentations, software demonstrations, bid defense meetings and vendor award notifications.
  • Contribute to process development and optimization.
  • Support or may lead vendor contracting process in collaboration with key internal and external stakeholders, including negotiation of scope of work, budgets, and payment schedules and out of scope management.
  • Negotiate contracts involving larger dollar amounts.
  • Identify, negotiate, and develop more complex and sophisticated pricing and contracting options, including annual pricing and rate cards.
  • Collaborate with Strategic Supplier Relationship team(s) or business as appropriate to effectively manage the cost, schedule and performance aspects of major contracts and subcontracts.
  • Support or may function as SS&P lead on meetings with stakeholders and suppliers, especially in Supplier Relationship Management activities such as regularly scheduled Business Reviews.
  • Contribute to build, maintain, and grow business relationships with current and prospective vendors through honesty, integrity, and trust.
  • Liaise and partner with Exelixis' Legal department and Business Owners to ensure vendor contract terms and conditions adequately address all business needs and requirements for services and protect Exelixis' interests prior to contract execution.
  • Manage end-to-end SOW and associated contract development and execution workflow for low-risk contracts leveraging the Legal Contract Lifecycle Management (CLM) system.
  • Liaise and collaborate with Exelixis' Legal department to enforce vendor contract terms and conditions.
  • Liaise and collaborate with SS&Ps Procurement Operations, FP&A, and other functional areas as needed to perform internal monthly vendor financial accruals, internal quarterly vendor financial forecasts, and internal quarterly vendor financial reporting.
  • Partner and collaborate with SS&P's Procurement Operations function where needed on internal vendor invoice query and payment process.
  • Support department initiatives and continuous improvement efforts and take greater leadership to develop and maintain SS&P business processes.
  • As applicable per designated category, maintain audit inspection readiness.
  • Represent SS&P at internal Team meetings.
  • Bachelor's degree in related discipline and 9 years of related experience; or, Master's degree in related discipline and 7 years of related experience; or, Doctoral degree in related discipline and 2 years of related experience; or, Equivalent combination of education/training and experience.
  • Experience in the pharmaceutical and/or biotechnology industry(ies) required.
  • Experience in pharmaceutical and/or biotechnology R&D outsourcing, purchasing, supplier relationship management and/or procurement role(s) required.
  • Supervisory/management experience preferred.
  • Experience with Ariba, Agiloft or similar contract lifecycle management system, Jira Service Management preferred.
  • 401k plan with generous company contributions
  • Group medical, dental and vision coverage
  • Life and disability insurance
  • Flexible spending accounts
  • Discretionary annual bonus program
  • Opportunity to purchase company stock
  • Long-term incentives
  • 15 accrued vacation days in their first year
  • 17 paid holidays including a company-wide winter shutdown in December
  • Up to 10 sick days throughout the calendar year
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