Senior Manager, R&D Vendor Management

3 weeks ago


Illinois, United States AbbVie Full time

DescriptionPrimary focus on negotiation and execution of related Master Agreements within category responsibilities. Maintains and manages existing MSA’s, including amending agreements in relation to new business needs or changes in circumstances.Responsible for oversight of CRO partnerships, including selection, contracting and performance management to support our Oncology Early Development business team.Responsible 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. Independently drives managed transactions to successful completion, and accountable for successful managing vendors through relationship lifecycle.Responsible for providing initial document drafting and originating redlines to Legal following return of documents from counterparties and driving decision making on issues that have crossover between Legal and business expertise.Reviews and analyzes KPI's/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, compliance and Quality. Communicates findings and recommendations to larger organization. Participates in Vendor Governance, managing relationships to unlock additional enterprise value.Assists in establishing and is responsible for maintaining consistent practices and policies related to vendor activities to insure compliance with Corporate Purchasing, Finance, QA, Clinical and OEC 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.Provide effective communication and recommendations to both internal and external partners. Address business issues for key services providers in conjunction with TLC POCs and Outsourcing Project Managers, QA, Dev Ops and other related depts. Escalates issues as defined by KPIs/metrics.Implements the comprehensive plan for A savings goals across all contracting functions.Liaise with Corporate Purchasing, TAs/FAs and fellow delegated purchasing functions to ensure needs are met.#LI-AL1QualificationsBachelor’s degree required. Advanced degree is strongly preferred (Scientific, JD, MBA).8-10 years combined experience in pharmaceutical research, legal, strategy or financial analysis required. Prefer Pharmaceutical, Licensing, CRO or Legal experience.Strong knowledge of drug development, project management, quality assurance, manufacturing, clinical and non-clinical research, legal and regulatory functions and specific experience in working with CROs.Strong understanding of outsourcing processes, corporate purchasing standards, legal, OEC, QA and finance policies and procedures. Knowledge of AbbVie organization, pipeline, processes, and culture beneficialExperience in leveraging resources in a global environment without direct reporting responsibility/authority. Demonstrated leadership skills with a very broad business orientation. Responsible to teams but with no direct reporting responsibility/authority for those functional areasProven project management skills. Demonstrated success 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.Must have demonstrated strong negotiation skills through past experience. Excellent communication skills both (written and verbal). Experience in preparing/presenting key information to senior level 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.Job Field: PurchasingJob Type: ExperiencedOrganization: OperationsSchedule: Full-timeTravel: Yes, 10 % of the Time



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