Associate Director - Strategic Sourcing 'Core​/Agile

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The Associate Director – Strategic Sourcing ‘Core / Agile’ is responsible for defining and leading sourcing strategies and execution across assigned External Manufacturing (EXM) Generics portfolio, in alignment with Procurement Category Management and Teva’s Core / Agile EXM organizations. This role is accountable for delivering enterprise value through strategic supplier selection, commercial optimization, and disciplined sourcing practices.

Reporting to the Senior Director – Strategic Sourcing Core / Agile Lead, this role operates as a strategic sourcing leader, owning the translation of business needs and category strategies into sourcing approaches, while influencing senior stakeholders to align on sourcing decisions and outcomes. The Associate Director drives both strategy and execution, ensuring sourcing initiatives deliver sustainable value, mitigate risk, and strengthen supplier performance.

This role plays a critical part in advancing procurement maturity by establishing best-in-class sourcing practices, building organizational capability, and embedding structured, data-driven decision-making across the EXM sourcing landscape.

• Define and lead sourcing strategies aligned with business priorities
• Own end-to-end sourcing (opportunity identification, strategy, RFx execution, negotiation, supplier selection)
• Translate business needs and market insights into optimized sourcing approaches (cost, quality, service, risk)
• Align senior stakeholders on strategies and decisions

• Lead complex supplier negotiations (pricing, capacity, long-term agreements)
• Maximise value and mitigate risk through strong negotiation strategies
• Oversee contract development and execution in partnership with Legal
• Proactively manage commercial and contractual risks

• Deliver sourcing value (savings, cost avoidance, resilience, innovation)
• Accountable for achieving annual value targets aligned with Finance
• Ensure tracking and visibility of sourcing performance
• Report outcomes and key decisions to leadership

• Develop and maintain deep knowledge of supplier markets and dynamics
• Define supplier strategies (selection, consolidation, preferred suppliers)
• Engage senior supplier stakeholders to drive performance and value creation
• Partner with SRM on supplier performance and governance
• Provide expertise in supplier economics (cost structures, should-costing)

• Identify and mitigate sourcing risks (supply continuity, capacity constraints, commercial exposure)
• Ensure alignment with quality, regulatory, and compliance requirements
• Partner with Quality, Regulatory, and Manufacturing on risk-balanced decisions

• Act as trusted advisor to EXM, Category Management, and cross-functional teams
• Influence and align senior stakeholders
• Enable cross-functional collaboration (Procurement, Manufacturing, Quality, Finance, Legal)
• Represent Procurement in strategic EXM forums

• Coach and support sourcing professionals (indirect leadership)
• Drive best practices, tools, and consistency in sourcing
• Contribute to capability building (playbooks, training, knowledge sharing)

• Improve sourcing efficiency and scalability
• Drive adoption of tools and data-driven decision-making
• Support procurement transformation and EXM sourcing maturity

• Significant experience in strategic sourcing and contracting, including defining sourcing strategies and leading…