Senior Specialist, CMO Procurement – Animal Health Global Supplier Management

Job Description

As part of the Contract Manufacturing Category team, the Senior Specialist leads strategic sourcing to ensure reliable, compliant and cost competitive Contract Manufacturers for our Animal Health products.  The Senior Specialist plays a leadership role in the development, lead and execution of sourcing strategies, category management, contract management, risk management and stakeholder management within this category.

Duties and Responsibilities:

People leadership- Expected to lead and influence peers, as appropriate, in the leadership of projects or other initiatives (for example, cross functional team members on a sourcing project team).

Procurement Leadership: 

• Leads development, recommendation/presentation, and implementation leadership of category sourcing strategies and ensures alignment, compliance and delivery of business requirements/needs.

• Collaborates with Supplier Relationship Managers to support their needs form a strategic sourcing perspective.

Project Management:

• Leads strategic sourcing projects (using an established sourcing management process) to establish sources of supply via market intelligence gathering and analysis, competitive sourcing events (RFIs, RFP/RFQs), costs analyses, strategic analyses, due diligence/compliance assessments, and contract negotiations.

• Leads cross-functional sourcing teams (key manufacturing support functions) to execute sourcing projects

Proactive Cost Management: Leads development, negotiation, and implementation of cost savings and productivity projects

Stakeholder Engagement/Management: Leads engagement with the business stakeholders (at same organizational level or one to two levels above and across manufacturing support functions such Supply Chain Management, Quality Assurance, Technology, Environmental Health and Safety, Finance, Regulatory Affairs, Legal) across the world in support of strategic sourcing and relationship management.

Strategy Development/Implementation: Create breakthrough strategies which deliver quick wins and generate legitimate business value.  Drive innovation.

Continuous Improvement: Ensure that every supplier relationship is established with intent of future continuous improvement, and to lead and manage the measurement and review process to ensure delivery of expectations.

Education Minimum Requirement:

• Bachelor's Degree preferably in Engineering, Science, or Business fields

Required Experience or Skills:

• At least five (5) years of experience in procurement and project management, within manufacturing environment or company. 

• Hands on work experience in strategic sourcing, contract negotiations and execution

• Experience working with Contract Manufacturers

• Experience working with suppliers and customers across geographies.

• Demonstrated ability to work well with people from many different disciplines.

• Project management experience specifically related to strategic sourcing projects in a cross functional environment

• High degree of flexibility and adaptability to deal with ambiguous and dynamic situations

• Experience managing multiple simultaneous and complex projects requiring frequent communication, organizational/time management and problem-solving skills.

• Excellent interpersonal, communication, collaboration, negotiation, analytical, and project management skills.

• Demonstrated strong leadership, problem solving, and team building skills/experience and sensitivity to diverse cultures

• Ability to work independently with minimal coaching

Preferred Experience and Skills:

• Post graduate degree in business, engineering or technical fields

• Experience working in the Pharmaceutical or Animal Health industry.

• Ability to translate strategic vision into tactical plans and manage the change required to execute.

• Ability to work with senior management with professionalism and discretion.

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