Associate Director, Procurement Management

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 Statement

The Site Procurement Lead (Associate Director) is responsible for overseeing and developing end-to-end procurement processes, leading strategic sourcing to contracting activities and ensuring alignment with category strategy for the Tempe, AZ medical device manufacturing site.  This role collaborates with Category Managers to lead supplier selection and management, maintains compliance with procurement policies, and administers continuous improvement initiatives.

Major Responsibilities:

• Lead and develop consistent procurement processes, including source-to-contract planning and financial analysis, ensuring strategic and informed procurement decisions.
• Ensure aligned execution of category strategy within assigned remit, as defined by Category Managers, coordinating to shape strategic vision and inform initiatives targeting value realization.
• Ensures compliance of procurement policy and team activities to business requirements of supplier diversity and sustainability, overseeing day-to-day processes and communicating insights to senior procurement leadership.
• Drive forward the execution of supplier management strategy, including supplier selection, as developed alongside Category Managers, fostering a collaborative and innovative approach to supplier interactions.
• Oversee risk mitigation plans developed in collaboration with Category Managers, providing tactical input on supplier performance and relaying the identification of procurement risks to safeguard the organization’s interest and maintain operational resilience.
• Maintain excellence in all contract execution activities including source to contract and requisition to pay, developing and implementin