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External Manufacturing Procurement Manager
This role is part of the Global Manufacturing Procurement organization that supports API and Dry Products External Manufacturing Networks.
Key Responsibilities:
* Develop and implement category sourcing strategies to engage external contract manufacturing organizations (CMOs) for active pharmaceutical ingredients and dry drug products.
* Sourcing, negotiating, contracting, reporting, and networking across procurement, finance, manufacturing, quality, technical services, legal, and other areas involved in managing external CMOs.
Key Objectives/Deliverables:
* Support procurement activities and provide commercial leadership for raw materials, intermediates, API, and dry products with external contract manufacturing organizations (CMOs).
* Develop, execute, and maintain supplier strategy through sourcing, supplier selection, contract negotiation, contract management, risk management, and cost management.
* Provide market intelligence to support sourcing strategies.
* Conduct spend analytics and prepare various reports.
* Understand commercial strategy, governance processes, and business operational requirements.
* Work directly and closely with manufacturing functional leadership, manufacturing support areas, and governance teams to ensure continuity of supply while maintaining an efficient cost-effective supply chain.
* Partner with Finance and Supply Chain to ensure smooth and accurate hand-offs between negotiated agreements and the associated SAP activities.
* Manage supplier relationships with key global suppliers to establish and maintain relationships, influence the continuity of a reliable continuous supply chain, and establish or maintain an efficient cost-effective supply chain.
* Facilitate delivery of development pipeline, ensure reliability of commercially manufactured products, and perform risk mitigation activities from assessment of risk through development of risk mitigation strategies and implementation to execution of the annual supplier risk management process.
Requirements:
* Bachelor's degree in scientific, engineering, business, finance, supply chain, procurement or other related professional field.
* Three to five years of experience in procurement, external supply or manufacturing of relevant materials, or pharmaceutical manufacturing (operations, technical service/material science, etc.).
* Previous experience working directly with suppliers in commercial, technical, or governance capacity.
* Demonstrated ability to influence business decision making both internally & externally.
* Demonstrated business acumen, project management, presentation, and communication skills.
Preferences:
* Previous external manufacturing procurement or sourcing experience.
* Previous negotiation experience.
* Previous SAP or Ariba procurement experience.
* Proficiency in Microsoft Excel, including pivot tables, and PowerPoint.