Senior Category Manager,Biotech/Pharma - Early Research & Development,Sourcing Job San Rafael California USA,Business

OPEN JOB:
Senior Category Manager, Early Research & Development, Sourcing
LOCATION:
San Rafael, California
HYBRID - 3 days work from home 2 days onsite in San Rafael, CA weekly on Tuesdays & Thursdays.
BASE SALARY: $128,800 to $177,100
BONUS ELIGIBLE
RELOCATION ASSISTANCE AVAILABLE
INTERVIEW TRAVEL REIMBURSED

IDEAL CANDIDATE

The person is from biotech/pharma procuring for Research needs in: early discovery, translational biology and bioanalytical sciences.
Hiring Manager is open to review folks in the clinical space especially if early clinical phase 1 having worked with clinical pharmacology.
The hiring manager DOES NOT want to see profiles with the majority of experience in technical operations/manufacturing s/he will decline them.

SUMMARY:

The Global Sourcing and Procurement (GSP) organization leads transformation change and implementing industry leading category strategies that directly support business needs.
The GSP organization leverages market intelligence, subject matter expertise and business insights in the procurement of good and services and management of the company's growing third party spend of $1B+.
Through collaboration with our external suppliers and internal business partners, GSP helps bring innovative new medicines to patients.
The Early Research & Development Senior Category Manager is an individual contributor role. This role reports to the Associate Director of R&D Services, in Global Sourcing and Procurement. The R&D Services team is part of the broader Indirect Procurement function, in which the functions Senior Director, who reports to the Chief Procurement Officer.
The primary customer group is the Worldwide Research & Development organization which Translates Genetic Discoveries into Transformative Medicines, with specific focus on the Research and Early Development (RED) organization.
This function covers a broad range of Preclinical sciences and includes external support needs in both GLP and non-GLP environments.

Role Scope:

The role is primarily focused on developing and executing category strategies in the Early Research and Development area, including but not limited to the following:
Preclinical Research Services Bioanalytical and Translational Sciences In-Vivo Animal Research and Toxicology Academic Research and Independently Sponsored Research
The role will work with other category managers to ensure alignment on related services or overlapping suppliers supporting other categories.
Focusing on aligning early development outsourcing strategies to any impacted downstream activities within Clinical R&D or GMP environments.
This role will collaborate closely with category leaders from across the Global Sourcing & Procurement organization to ensure that all Worldwide Research and Development, as well as laboratories in the Technical Operations Organization are fully supported and optimized.
The Senior Category Manager must support development and implementation of industry leading procurement practices, develop deep relationships with stakeholders, drive innovation and continuous improvement in the ways of working.
Provide mentoring and management to ensure colleague engagement and professional development.
Cultivate long term strategic goals that align with business requirements and drive financial rigor and cost savings throughout.

Strategy & Leadership:

Design, develop and shepherd sourcing and category strategies that support business strategy and enable world class procurement execution.
Stakeholder Management: align early to understand stakeholder needs, build credibility through strong relationships and solid track record of results, via a collaborative approach ability to manage senior stakeholders across various functions and foster cross-functional alignment; become the point of procurement accountability for the RED team; develop productive relationships with key suppliers.
Leadership: leading through influence and provide excellent procurement thought leadership, a have a strong understanding of all GSP capabilities and strategies, be a strong advocate for the GSP organization across the company.
Finance

Collaboration:

closely partnership with Finance organization in support of the functional stakeholders.
External perspective: maintain an active understanding of industry trends and functional practices through participation in industry organizations, bringing knowledge to the team and stakeholders.
Ways of working:
Be the subject matter expect on evolving procurement practices and standards that may be rapidly changing internally and externally.
Communication: skilled in written and verbal communication.

Operational Focus:

Sourcing and category management strategies: spearhead creation and implementation of sourcing strategies to drive savings and risk mitigation, drive process improvement through transformational projects; support the team in the implementation of such strategies.
Supplier Relationship Management: create and implement collaborative business plans with strategic suppliers;…

Senior Category Manager, Biotech​/Pharma - Early Research & Development, Sourcing

Senior Category Manager, Biotech/Pharma - Early Research & Development, Sourcing