Senior Specialist, Sourcing & Vendor Management

Overview

We are currently searching for a skilled professional to join a well-known client’s team as a Senior Sourcing & Vendor Management Specialist remotely in the United States. The Senior Sourcing & Vendor Management Specialist role will be responsible for supporting and participating in the development and implementation of a multi-year strategy that expands the capability and flexibility of working with external partners across the functional areas within Global Regulatory Affairs and Drug Safety (GRADS). Their work will have a direct impact on the organization and the larger clinical industry, making this an amazing career opportunity.

Responsibilities

• Organizes and conducts meetings with internal stakeholders and external vendors and provides post meeting summary and action tracking.
• Supports the management of the functional areas sourced activities to support efficient, on-time execution of these agreements and related services.
• Supports the team and participates in the process led by sourcing management, in the end-to-end process for sourcing within functional areas working with Procurement as appropriate. This includes support of vendor RFI/RFP, selection of vendors, solution ID workshops, vendor onboarding/offboarding transition activities, and vendor key performance indicator (KPI) metric collation and oversight, manage the vendor agreements and activities within the global supplier management and contracting platform, working towards business as usual, while sustaining performance and compliance and ultimately continuously improving upon the existing processes.
• Management of the GRADS AM shared mailbox and ensure appropriate actions are taken.
• Collaborate with GRADS Compliance organization to resolve any compliance or quality issues within functional areas resulting from executed vendor partnerships.
• Responsible for raising deviations as needed to ensure efficiency and overall quality of activities as it relates to Strategic Sourcing & Vendor Management for functional areas.
• Contribute to determining solutions outside of current responsibilities as needed and manages day-to-day operational issues outside of current responsibilities as needed.
• Work with procurement, Finance, IT and functional areas subject matter experts to oversee the conduct of due diligence evaluations and selection of external partner organizations.

Experience

Minimum of 3 years of related experience required

EDUCATION

Minimum of Bachelor’s Degree in health sciences or equivalent work experience in pharmaceutical research and development

To Be a Best-fit Your Strengths Must Include

• Experience working in a drug development outsourced model, either on the outsourcer or client side with an ability to translate learnings to functional area outsourcing models.
• Extensive experience with leading successful delivery of projects (pipeline, business improvement, and/or change management projects)
• Knowledgeable of functional areas processes for pharmaceutical products.
• Strong negotiation, interpersonal, communication, and leadership skills.
• Ability to lead by influence and work effectively in matrix organizational structures.
• Must have proven track record to be able to think critically, strategically, independently and problem solve.
• Must have high level of motivation, drive, and demonstration of leadership values.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills and negotiation skills including ability to write clearly and concisely.
• Top notch interpersonal skills in difficult situations.
• Driver of change and innovation.
• Ability to work seamlessly with all levels of personnel.
• Demonstrated sensitivity and knowledge of cultural differences with experience in multi-country, multi-cultural environments and demonstrated success with cross-geographically based cultural collaborations.
• Excellent Microsoft office application skills as well as, e-mail and online meeting tool skills.

About Advanced Clinical

Advanced Clinical is an award-winning clinical development organization that provides global services including CRO, Functional Support, Quality & Validation, Patient Recruitment and Retention, and Strategic Talent Acquisition solutions for pharmaceutical, biopharmaceutical, biotechnology, and medical device organizations. Our mission is to deliver a truly better clinical experience for our clients and candidates. To learn more about Advanced Clinical which has been named to Chicago Tribune’s Top Workplaces, Chicago’s Best and Brightest Companies, and Best of Staffing Talent & Client, visit http://www.advancedclinical.com.

Regarding your application

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