Main Areas Of Responsibilities

• Strategic Sourcing: Actively contribute to the development and implementation of sourcing strategies for R&D Material Procurement. Lead and support the supplier selection process, including the selection of transactional and preferred vendors, for designated studies, programs and/or services.
• Achieve Significant Synergies and Cost Savings: Proactively support Material Procurement category assessment teams to ensure that all potential opportunities for operational, quality, and financial synergies are identified, tracked, and implemented.
• Contract Management: Develop and foster relationships with preferred/alliance suppliers to ensure clear communication, create an environment of partnership, and agreed-to contractually committed levels of service, quality, delivery, and cost.
• Requirement Definitions: Proactively work with business partners to identify sourcing and contracting requirements in advance of supplier communications to ensure clear specifications, requirements, and alignment across the Allergan team prior to initiating requests or agreements with suppliers.
• Request Proposals: Follow a high-quality, consistent, expeditious, and effective process to ensure that the proper sources of supply are evaluated and selected to support the business need. Prepare, finalize, and distribute requests for proposal to suppliers with a team of internal Allergan stakeholders.
• Negotiate Agreements : Negotiate master services, confidentiality, service standards, and other supplier agreements based on Allergan templates and with the support of Allergan functional and legal teams to ensure high quality, provide clarity, obtain competitive costs, document timelines, and mitigate risk.
• Category Profile: Document and maintain a comprehensive category profile for the R&D/Material Procurement category.
• Deliver Business Results : (1) understand Allergan’s business requirements, and clearly include these within supplier contracts, (2) demonstrate and apply functional knowledge, experiences, and management skills to promote team performance and continual improvement across the organization’s work with R&D services suppliers, (3) ensure applicable suppliers execute services as committed, and (4) handle issue resolution for outsourced services.

Requirements The following listed requirements need to be met at a minimum level to be considered for the job:

• A minimum of two (2) years in biotechnology/pharmaceutical industry or equivalent experience.
• A minimum of one (1) year of direct experience in a chemical outsourcing/contracts function is preferred. Ideally, with direct engagement with API suppliers and other chemical suppliers such as excipient suppliers.
• Demonstrated ability to lead the development of contract management processes.
• Clear understanding of R&D supplier and sponsor businesses, financial drivers

Preferred Skills/Qualification The below skills are attributes that may not be mandatory but are definitely desired in the ideal candidate.

• A C.P.M., C.P.I.M., Project Management, Lean, Six Sigma, or other relevant certifications a plus.
• Excellent ability to communicate effectively with executives and senior leaders, both internally and externally.
• Excellent business/financial acumen, proficient in leading and managing cross-functional teams.
• Ability to lead, motivate, influence and drive change at all levels of the organization.
• Ability to understand the factors affecting the finances and/or operations of suppliers.
• Excellent global supplier management skills with ability foster and leverage professional relationships.
• Ability to identify and solve complex contractual, process, operational business challenges , and know when to seek assistance.

Education

• A Bachelor’s Degree in Business or a relevant technical discipline. Relevant work experience in lieu of degree is also acceptable.