Senior Manager, Indirect Procurement - Clinical

Essential Functions

• Serve as the primary procurement business partner to Clinical stakeholders, providing guidance and influencing vendor strategy, budgeting, and procurement processes.
• Own and manage the end-to-end requisition-to-purchase order process, ensuring compliance with procurement policies and timely processing of purchasing requests.
• Lead the request for proposal process including bid comparison, bid review meetings, recommendation on selection and awarding the service.
• Provide procurement support across additional indirect spend categories (e.g., professional services, G&A, IT) as business needs evolve.
• Partner with Finance to support budgeting, forecasting, accruals, and spend tracking for clinical programs.
• Drive standardization and continuous improvement of procurement processes, templates, and workflows in partnership with Finance and Procurement leadership.
• Support contract negotiation activities in partnership with Clinical Operations and Legal, contributing procurement expertise to ensure appropriate terms, risk mitigation, and alignment with company policies, while ensuring purchase order readiness and alignment with procurement processes prior to contract execution.
• Manage multiple concurrent procurement activities across clinical programs and other categories in a fast-paced, evolving environment.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree in Business Administration or related field, with a minimum of 8+ years of procurement, sourcing, or vendor management experience, including experience supporting clinical trials or clinical services in a biopharmaceutical or CRO environment preferred.
• Experience supporting Phase I–III clinical trials, including large, multi-site studies with significant patient enrollment.
• Must possess strong analytical ability, and solid business acumen including an understanding of business operations in a fast-paced environment.
• Able to work independently, prioritize work, and handle simultaneous assignments under tight deadlines.
• Experience with procurement and financial systems (e.g., Netsuite, SAP, Coupa, Ariba, Oracle) preferred
• Advanced knowledge of Excel, PowerPoint and Word are required.
• Demonstrated ability to work collaboratively across organizations and utilize resources effectively.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Ability to work in the HQ office 3-5 days a week