Associate Director, Procurement Lead

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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 Worcester, MA (primary) site and Waltham MA site.  The site includes both Biologic Manufacturing and R&D operations.. 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 implementing strategies to identify inefficiencies in process design and execution. 

• Guide the execution of continuous improvement initiatives in collaboration with the PSC team, overseeing the adoption of new processes and providing feedback and guidance to PMO stakeholders. 

• Lead and nurture a team of Specialists, setting ambitious performance targets, providing tailored coaching, and evaluating team performance, site aligned Procurement support for complex local needs (manufacturing and R&D site) 

• Partner with Procurement Strategy and Capability leaders and business partners to define skillsets, workforce requirements, capability needs, and long-term organizational staffing goals 

• Broad-based expertise in implementing procurement processes, including source-to-contract planning and financial analysis, ensuring strategic and informed procurement decisions.
• Vast experience tailoring processes to meet business needs.
• Strong capacity and experience building and managing collaborative relationships, aligning procurement activities with business needs.
• Innovative problem-solving skills combined with a solution-oriented mindset, enabling creative approaches and influential communication at all organizational levels.
• High cross-functional collaboration abilities and teamwork skills, effectively navigating and coordinating diverse team dynamics.
• Strong soft skills and emotional intelligence, facilitating empathetic interactions, effective communication, and robust relationship-building.
• Impactful executive functioning abilities and autonomous work ethic, maintaining efficient performance in challenging situations and building consensus in decision-making.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, Supply Chain Mgmt or related field. Master’s degree is preferred.
• Minimum of 10 years of experience in procurement, supply chain, or related business or operations function.
• Experience leading procurement teams and collaborating with senior internal and external stakeholders.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and leadership skills.
• Knowledge of the pharmaceutical industry is preferred.

Key Stakeholders (optional):

Site Procurement Management  (Regional and Site Leads), Ops Procurement Leadership, Business Partners, Category Leads/Managers, Procurement Strategy & Capabilities Office

Applicable only to applicants applying to a position in any location with pay disclosure requirements under state or local law: ​

• The compensation range described below is the range of possible base pay compensation that the Company believes in good faith it will pay for this role at the time of this posting based on the job grade for this position. Individual compensation paid within this range will depend on many factors including geographic location, and we may ultimately pay more or less than the posted range. This range may be modified in the future. ​

• We offer a comprehensive package of benefits including paid time off (vacation, holidays, sick), medical/dental/vision insurance and 401(k) to eligible employees.​

• This job is eligible to participate in our long-term incentive programs. ​

Note: No amount of pay is considered to be wages or compensation until such amount is earned, vested, and determinable. The amount and availability of any bonus, commission, incentive, benefits, or any other form of compensation and benefits that are allocable to a particular employee remains in the Company's sole and absolute discretion unless and until paid and may be modified at the Company’s sole and absolute discretion, consistent with applicable law. 

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