Senior Manager

Our Client, a Biopharmaceutical company, is looking for a Senior Manager for their Foster City, CA location.
 
Responsibilities:

• Develop category strategies to deliver value by achieving cost savings and improving quality and service levels by identifying opportunity areas such as standardization and supplier consolidation
• Oversee all spend activity and purchase requests for assigned category areas and determine proper action plan for all purchases that meet the procurement involvement threshold
• Provide category subject matter expertise to the associated business group and Procurement functions
• Support Commercial category strategies with spend analytics, supplier benchmarking, and RFP execution support
• Coordinate Commercial supplier communications, data gathering, and performance tracking
• Effectively work with Procurement Business Partner and business groups as a trusted advisor to determine desired product/service specifications and projected demand when making recommended action plans
• Consult with cross functional teams to execute strategic sourcing projects for assigned category
• Collaborate with Procurement functions and business groups to ensure that all spend above established thresholds are managed strategically
• Collaborate with Procurement colleagues including Supplier Inclusion and Procurement Operations to create standard and repeatable process to integrate business diversity and responsible procurement into overall value proposition
• Drive use of sourcing and procurement best practices and standardization of processes while minimizing supply risk
• Ensure the company has good supply market understanding and works with the business teams to provide input for creating innovative win win customer and supplier strategies
• Proactively identify improvement opportunities for assigned category and recommend key actions to the appropriate stakeholders
• Combine all spend information into yearly plans and long-term forecasts for costs, savings targets, and planned projects
• Execute initiatives to classify suppliers and manage supplier relationships according to defined supplier relationship management standards.

• Bachelor’s Degree. MBA preferred
• Experience
• 5+ years Strategic Sourcing/Procurement experience, Category Management, Contract Negotiation, Performance Measurement, Contract Negotiation, Project Management, Business Analysis, Change Management experience
• Skills
• Strong knowledge of strategic sourcing methodology with pragmatism to manage exceptions
• Ability to develop category and sourcing strategies by identifying opportunity areas
• Track record of effectively directing and leveraging procurement spend in assigned category areas by leading global cross functional teams
• Experience managing and maintaining strong supplier relationships
• Strong leadership presence and negotiation/contract management experience
• Extensive knowledge and experience with procurement/spend systems data and analysis
• Strong interpersonal and leadership capabilities to develop sourcing team
• Ability to apply change management and consulting skills/knowledge and expertise

• Health Benefits
• Referral Program
• Excellent growth and advancement opportunities