VP, Commercial Procurement

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The role of the VP, Commercial Procurement is to lead an organization that is responsible for overseeing and managing the procurement activities related to all aspects of commercialization of BMS product portfolio.  This role plays a critical role in driving performance across the Commercial procurement categories including, cost savings and optimizing supplier relationships, including small and diverse suppliers.  This role works in close collaboration with Commercial leaders to enable the company revenue targets and the new product pipeline. The Vice President of Commercial Procurement reports to the Chief Procurement Officer.

This role leads and provides guidance to the commercial procurement organization including, performance goals, coaching and mentoring, and fostering a collaborative and inclusive work environment that encourages innovation and continuous learning.

This role also collaborates with internal business partners and stakeholders, such as commercial teams and finance, to understand their procurement needs and align strategies accordingly. Build strong relationships and effective communication channels to ensure procurement activities support business objectives. This role is also responsible for managing the relationship, performance and SLAs with key strategic suppliers.

Major Responsibilities and Accountabilities:

• Design, develop and execute SS&P’s Commercial strategy.
• Enhance and drive the deployment, execution and adoption of a global Commercial strategy for process areas such as:
  • Advertising
  • Media
  • Commercial Distributions
  • Contact Centers
  • Diagnostic Services
  • Field Force
  • Fulfillment & Print
  • Medical Affairs
  • Patient Access and Support

• Partner closely and regularly interact with a wide array of stakeholders across the Commercial organization to establish, enable, continuously improve and govern BMS’ sourcing experience:
  • Work with the Commercial organization to enable the company revenue targets by leveraging sourcing strategies.
  • Interact with SS&P leadership regularly to ensure strategies meet continuously evolving business needs.

• This role leads the international teams who support procurement needs from the Commercial organization outside of the United States.  

Talent/People Development:

• Responsible for building and managing a team that provides all the Commercial Procurement support globally.
• Build and continuously improve the capability by ongoing talent development; establishing/communicating criteria for evaluating staff performance; managing head count, and directing the implementation of work processes and practices to optimize team engagement (myVoice survey) and effectiveness.
• Dedicated project resources with a focus on driving process excellence related to Commercial categories.

Supplier Diversity and Sustainability:

• Ensure BMS meets or exceeds supplier diversity targets as it relates to small and diverse business spend
• Drive continuous improvement to maximize small and diverse spend across all categories of spend
• Support the execution of the procurement sustainability strategy that ensures fulfillment of the BMS commitments and external stakeholder/shareholder requirements.

Qualifications:

Minimum Requirements:

• B.S./B.A.
• Minimum of 15+ years of related business, Accounts Payable, Accounting, Procurement Operations, Finance or transaction processing experience
• 5+ years experience in the managem