Sr. Procurement Specialist

About the role

Looking to join a passionate team dedicated to developing and manufacturing life-saving biopharmaceuticals? Avid Bioservices is a leading clinical and commercial biologics CDMO focused on creating innovative solutions to meet the needs of our clients and improve patient outcomes. Your Role: The Senior Procurement Specialist drives the organization's sourcing lifecycle to optimize costs, mitigate market risks, and guarantee supply continuity. This role balances strategic category leadership with execution, managing a diverse portfolio across both direct procurement (production-critical raw materials and inventory) and indirect procurement (operational goods, software, and corporate services). The ideal candidate acts as a strategic advisor to stakeholders and builds resilient, high-performing supplier networks.

Responsibilities

• Process purchase orders, track deliveries, and ensure timely receipt of goods
• Responsible for negotiating preferred/discount pricing or contract pricing with vendors.
• Maintain strong relationships with suppliers, monitor performance, and resolve disputes or claims.
• Partners with AP to resolve vendor invoice issues.
• Partners with MSAT to drive second sourcing activities for raw materials.
• Helps with obtaining vendor documentation for RMS updates for materials.
• Drive sourcing strategies for raw materials and core engineering components to ensure milestones are being met.
• Complex Contracting: Draft and negotiating complex, multi-year Master Service Agreements (MSAs), Statements of Work (SOWs), and Service Level Agreements (SLAs).
• Help drive Key Performance Metrics (KPI’s) such as cost savings/avoidance, supplier performance and reduction in procurement cycle times.
• Managing high-value corporate spend categories (e.g., Enterprise Software, Global Facilities, Professional Services) and aligning procurement with executive business goals.
• Responsible for executing and managing enterprise-wide sourcing strategies for non-production goods and services. This role focuses on optimizing corporate spend, driving structural cost reduction initiatives, and building resilient supplier frameworks across high value spend categories.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Supply Chain Management, Business Administration, Finance, or a related technical field.
• 5 to 8+ years of indirect/direct corporate procurement or category management experience.
• Experience with ERP / inventory control systems required, Dynamics D365 experience preferred.
• Excellent stakeholder management, communication and influencing skills.

Preferred Qualifications

• Professional certification (e.g.,