Manager, Vendor Management

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Individual contributor with responsibility for pro-actively evaluating, negotiating with, measuring and managing vendors. Providing services and deliverables to a business function with sole responsibility for up to medium scale vendor (single or few countries, value generally less than $10mm annually, single or few TA/FAs utilizing) relationships and transactions with moderate complexity. Leads negotiations and drive transactions to completion on time and on budget. Active manager and primary owner of supplier categories and supplier relationships, including sourcing responsibility.

Responsibilities

• Individual contributor with responsibility for pro-actively evaluating, negotiating with, measuring and managing vendors. Providing services and deliverables to a business function with sole responsibility for up to medium scale vendor (single or few countries, value generally less than $10mm annually, single or few TA/FAs utilizing) relationships and transactions with moderate complexity. Leads negotiations and drive transactions to completion on time and on budget. Active manager and primary
• Additional responsibility for negotiation and execution of one-off agreements (and statements of work) in assigned categories as requested by management. For Vendor Managers that support clinical trial related services, partners with Outsourcing Project Managers in a support and consulting capacity in relation to PM managed one-off agreements.
• Drives transactions to successful completion, and accountable for successfully interacting with vendor through relationship lifecycle.
• Responsible for providing initial document drafting and originating redlines to Legal following return of documents from counterparties.
• Reviews and analyzes KPIs/metrics, holding vendors accountable to established performance criteria for vendor activities. Drives the investigation of vendor performance issues and develops solutions to ensure overall performance and compliance. Communicates findings and recommendations to larger organization.
• Assists in establishing and is responsible for maintaining consistent practices and policies related to vendor activities to ensure compliance with Corporate Purchasing, Finance, OEC and other applicable policies.
• Across supported service categories, responsible for pro-actively collaborating with TAs/FAs and related TLC POCs and Outsourcing Project Managers. Leverages these efforts to strategically build a preferred supplier network in such categories.
• Provides effective communication to both internal and external partners. Address business issues for key services providers in conjunction with TLC POCs and Outsourcing Project Managers and related departments
• Implements the comprehensive plan for savings goals across all contracting functions.
• Liaise with Corporate Purchasing, TAs/FAs and fellow delegated purchasing functions to ensure the business functions’ needs are met

• Bachelor’s degree required. Advanced degree is preferred
• 5-8 years combined experience in legal, strategy or financial analysis required. Prefer Pharmaceutical, Licensing, CRO or Legal experience.
• Understanding of outsourcing processes, corporate purchasing standards, legal, OEC, and finance policies and procedures. Knowledge of AbbVie organization, pipeline, processes, and culture beneficial
• Ability to successfully operate in a global environment without direct reporting responsibility/authority. Emerging leadership skills with a very broad business orientation. Responsible to teams but with no direct reporting responsibility/authority for those functional areas
• Proven project management skills. Developing skills in managing broad scope projects involving cross-functional teamwork.
• Demonstrated ability to think and plan strategically. Position requires strong analytical skills to understand scientific and financial data, recognize key issues and establish priorities.
• Demonstrated negotiation skills. Excellent communication skills both (written and verbal). Experience in preparing/presenting key information to management.
• Ability to build and maintain effective internal and external partnerships. Relationship management and influencing skills required. High degree of customer focus.
• Requires problem solving abilities at both strategic and operational levels. To identify and resolve issues related to a contract, or management of the supplier to the contract or management of performance issues. This involves both internal cross-functional problem solving as well as issue resolution between functional areas and external suppliers.

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 short-term incentive programs. ​

• 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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