Senior Manager, Agile Sourcing, Indirect Services

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Agile Sourcing (AS) is part of a global procurement team which collaborates with Global Product Supply (GPS) category leaders and business partners on procurement execution in support of procurement category strategies as well as contributing advanced strategic industry insight. The Senior Manager is directly responsible for acting as a “single point of contact” for requirements gathering, sourcing, negotiation and contracting of high strategic value, complex, high risk and innovative transactions supporting the GPS organization.  

The Senior Manager, Agile Sourcing, Indirect Services role will build an understanding of BMS’s global, end-to-end value chain as it relates to the categories in focus. Key responsibilities include owning and driving implementation of high value and highly complex sourcing projects and contracts; and identifying supply optimization opportunities for speed-to-market, innovation, revenue enhancement and other sources of value for Bristol Myers Squibb. This role has a strong emphasis on contracting.

Major Responsibilities and Accountabilities:

Project Management

• Drive end-to-end implementation of Sourcing and Contracting Strategy and contribute to strategy development.

• Project management and operational support for various contracting and strategic initiatives.

• Communicate project status updates clearly and transparently across matrix stakeholders.

• Provide End-to-End project management for complex sourcing events.

Contract Drafting

• Review, redline, draft, and negotiate routine contracts with minimal supervision for assigned categories, and for complex contracts under the guidance of transactional attorneys.

• Provide guidance and explanation of risks on contract matters to internal stakeholders including procurement and business units.

• Partner with attorneys providing advice on transactions, patient data privacy law, and other regulatory matters, as well as other internal SMEs to draft and update contract templates.

• Develop and maintain fallback guidance, playbooks, and other internal documents with advice from transactional attorneys.

• Serve as a primary point of contact for external parties, engage internal stakeholders in negotiation decisions, and manage contracts through the negotiation process.

• Lead the negotiation and execution of contracts in close partnership with legal and other key business functions to meet GPS category and site needs in a fast-paced, highly regulated environment.  

• Gather contract requirements and understanding the scientific business need.

• Demonstrate strong command of contract legal terms and clauses.

• Develop creative solutions in the face of challenges to enable business initiatives and manage risk.

• Maintain full compliance with BMS contracting policies and procedures.

Strategic Sourcing & Procurement

• Lead the gathering and formalization of key business requirements.

• Prepare and solicit competitive bids, quotations, and proposals.

• Develop scoring criteria with input from key partners and stakeholders.

• Evaluate competitive offerings and assess supplier product & pricing information.

• Partner with category leads, site procurement and business unit representatives to award business.

• Ensure excellence in delivery of procurement initiatives that maximize corporate, business, and functional priorities and objectives.

• As part of implementation, review product availability and/or pricing in