VP Global Procurement - R&D

About the role

The Vice President, Global Procurement R&D will provide strategic leadership and direction for the R&D category while operating first and foremost as an enterprise leader who shapes how procurement creates value across Regeneron.

Responsibilities

• Act as an influential enterprise leader across senior stakeholders, leveraging critical thinking, change management, strong business acumen, and deep procurement expertise to develop strategic improvements that extend well beyond the R&D category.
• Lead and/or participate in senior management discussions related to the R&D category, setting priorities aligned with stakeholder needs and representing Global Procurement in decisions with critical short- and long-term impact on the company.
• Design and lead an R&D procurement function that scales with both human capability and technology-driven execution re-engineering processes and embedding automation and intelligent tooling to free the team for higher-value work.
• Champion the adoption and optimization of technology platforms that drive process automation, data-driven decision-making, and end-to-end visibility across the procurement lifecycle, acting as a change leader who builds buy-in and sustains adoption.
• Lead critical negotiations, supplier management, and stakeholder engagement for the R&D category, turning supplier relationships into a true competitive differentiator through partnership and innovation.
• Build risk and supply chain resilience into category and sourcing strategies, anticipating disruption and ensuring continuity of supply for the suppliers, services, and materials most critical to R&D.
• Build agile, value-driving talent that keeps pace with business demands, taking accountability for development, retention, and recruiting of Global Procurement talent.
• Apply in-depth knowledge of efficient global procurement organizations within the biopharmaceutical industry, using Regeneron's global capability center to standardize repeatable activities and optimize efficiency.
• Exhibit role-model leadership behaviors across the organization, communicating a clear and compelling vision and driving positive change with senior executives and Regeneron's most critical suppliers.

Requirements

• A bachelor's degree in a relevant field (required); an advanced degree (MBA or similar) and/or a professional procurement certification is strongly preferred.
• ~20 years of progressive experience in global procurement or category management, including a track record of taking on broader scope, higher-stakes categories, and larger teams at each career step not just tenure, but demonstrated upward trajectory.
• Direct experience leading procurement within a multi-national biopharmaceutical or life sciences organization, with working fluency in the R&D category specifically sourcing, CRO/clinical services, and lab supplies or in closely adjacent, comparably complex categories.
• A demonstrated record of enterprise-level influence: examples of shaping decisions or strategy beyond procurement's own four walls, gained credibility with C-suite or senior R&D executives, and led change that stuck rather than stalled after rollout.
• Hands-on ownership of building or substantially re-engineering a procurement function not just using existing tools, but having redesigned processes, embedded automation or intelligent tooling, and measurably shifted team capacity toward higher-value work.
• Command of complex, high-value negotiations and supplier relationships, with specific, quantifiable outcomes (cost savings, risk mitigated, capacity secured, innovation unlocked) rather than general negotiation experience.
• Evidence of building supply chain resilience proactively anticipated and managed a real disruption or continuity risk for a critical category, rather than only responding after the fact.
• Direct people-leadership experience managing Director-level (or equivalent senior) professionals, including specific examples of developing successors and retaining high performers through organizational change.

Qualifications

• Required Education: Bachelors Degree

Skills

• Strategic Thinking
• Change Management
• Business Acumen
• Procurement Expertise
• Enterprise-Level Influence
• Process Redesign
• Supplier Relationships
• Risk Management
• Talent Development
• Global Procurement Experience

Benefits

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Pay

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Schedule

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