Director, Strategic Sourcing, CRO Category Lead

Responsibilities

• Build relationships with R&D business partners to develop and enable sourcing strategies that align with the needs of the business while meeting financial, operational, risk, quality, regulatory, and assurance of supply/services control objectives.
• Manage and identify key supplier relationships by enabling operational delivery, continuous improvement, and innovation through performance and relationship measurement, overall governance, supplier relationship development and alignment to business and corporate goals and objectives.
• Ensure and monitor compliance with sourcing policies and processes through stakeholder communication, training, and the identification and reporting of exceptions and deviations.
• Identify and drive continuous improvement opportunities within the process area.
• Lead and execute significant, high value and high impact sourcing activities with cross-functional teams by assessing the category market, collecting business requirements, soliciting RFx’s, leading contractual and rate card negotiations and ensuring the strategic contractual infrastructure is in place to support business priorities.
• Ensure compliance with company policies, industry regulations, and ethical standards.
• Assess and mitigate supplier risks, driving quality and adhering to regulatory guidelines.
• Drive 10-15% annual savings within in-scope spend areas.
• Lead team of sourcing managers.

Qualifications

• Knowledge and experience within the Pharmaceutical or Biotech R&D CRO clinical category; demonstrated expertise in the discipline.
• Experience in executing R&D sourcing projects yielding preferred or strategic partnerships.
• Experience in interacting with senior level stakeholders and suppliers.
• Proven experience managing and leading cross-functional teams, including overseeing performance, development, and delivery of strategic objectives.
• Proficient in evaluating and developing procurement strategies in alignment with R&D stakeholders to maximize efficiency and minimize cost with minimal oversight.
• Proficient in negotiating supplier contracts and rate cards that lead to the greatest value for money and quality for the organization.
• Demonstrated proficiency in launching and managing financial KPI's for Sourcing.
• Demonstrated proficiency in building successful stakeholder relationships.
• Expertise in data analysis and extracting key actionable observations.
• Basic understanding of ICH E6 guidelines.