Associate Director, Category Management (Analytical Testing & External Labs)

Company Description

AbbVie's mission is to discover and deliver innovative medicines and solutions that solve serious health issues today and address the medical challenges of tomorrow. We strive to have a remarkable impact on people's lives across several key therapeutic areas – immunology, oncology, neuroscience, and eye care – and products and services in our Allergan Aesthetics portfolio. For more information about AbbVie, please visit us at www.abbvie.com. Follow @abbvie on X, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, LinkedIn and Tik Tok.

Job Description

Purpose
The Associate Director, Category Management partners with VP-level business or functional stakeholder(s) to develop global procurement strategies, contributing to a cross-functional team that informs strategy through analysis, market expertise, and understanding of broader business objectives. This role builds an annual strategic plan and leads a team of managers to achieve ambitious performance targets aligned with organizational goals.

This new role will have a unique opportunity to build and shape category strategies from Discovery to Development. 

Primary accountabilities:

• Provide overall strategy and alignment on goals with internal customers and cross functional procurement priorities.
• Lead the development of global category strategies that meets long term business needs that drive ongoing value, continuous improvement and comply with global procurement policies, processes, and tools.
• Serve as a thought partner to Business leaders to ensure their category strategies are complete, rigorous and will satisfy needs.
• Solicit business unit input to ensure internal customer satisfaction with the performance of category procurement teams and take action on areas for improvement.

Metrics and performance indicators:

• Category Management Plan and Execution supporting the portfolio.
• Delivery of People, Process, Governance and Value delivery goals.
• Meet agreed-upon operational budget for procurement.
• Meet or exceed agreed-upon service level expectations.
• Supplier performance – at or above expectation across balanced scorecard.
• Organizational and employee development.