Senior Manager, R&D Procurement, Biomarkers Category

Position Overview

Senior Manager, R&D Procurement, Biomarkers Category will develop, lead, and manage the Biomarkers category strategy supporting Innovative Medicine R&D Clinical Development—translating scientific and clinical needs into market-informed strategies, supplier strategies, sourcing approaches, contracting pathways, and governance models to enable access to biomarker technologies while delivering procurement value, continuity, quality, compliance, and speed to innovation.

• Determine global business needs and develop/refresh global Biomarkers category strategy (guidance, supplier segmentation, preferred vendor models, governance, contracting strategy).
• Partner with scientific, clinical, business, vendor management, finance, quality, legal, and digital stakeholders.
• Use market intelligence to inform sourcing approaches and contracting pathways (including strategic partnerships and agile test-and-learn models where appropriate).
• Support major sourcing events (RFx), supplier evaluations, and negotiations.
• Lead supplier relationship management and governance; monitor/mitigate risks (supplier, regulatory, geopolitical, technology, performance, contracting).
• Deliver business plan commitments (savings, cost management, cash flow, supplier management, traceable impact goals) using the R&D Procurement operating model.
• Drive execution via scorecards, milestone tracking, and issue/risk mitigation; leverage approved analytics and GenAI tools.

• Required:
  
  Bachelor’s degree; 8+ years related experience.
• Preferred:
  Master’s/advanced degree in sciences/business/supply chain/procurement.

• Business acumen; influencing; leadership/collaboration; strong communication/presentation; core procurement understanding (spend, category, supplier management, negotiation); learning agility; project management.

• Experience in pharma/Med Tech/clinical development/diagnostics/lab services/CRO; biomarkers/companion diagnostics/assay development/central labs; cross-geography supplier experience; data/analytics/GenAI use; category strategy refresh; partnership across business/scientific/regulatory/quality/finance/legal/procurement.

• English; travel up to 10%.