Senior Manager, Commercial Strategic Sourcing

1 day ago


Princeton, New Jersey, United States Avanir Pharmaceuticals Full time
Job Title: Senior Manager, Commercial Strategic Sourcing

At Avanir Pharmaceuticals, we are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Senior Manager, Commercial Strategic Sourcing to join our team. This role will be responsible for leading and managing sourcing for commercial services, executing the Sourcing process at Otsuka for Media Planning & Buying, Marketing Agencies, Trade Shows, Market Research, and Patient Support and Promotions.

Key Responsibilities:
  • Develop and execute sourcing strategies that align with the needs of the business while meeting financial and operational control objectives for Commercial.
  • Manage relationships with key vendors to enable operational continuous improvements and innovation.
  • Track and monitor sourcing policies and process compliance, ensuring any exceptions and deviations are reported.
  • Create excellence through consistent, high-quality outcomes.
  • Identify continuous improvement opportunities within process areas.
  • Work with Sourcing leadership to drive 10-15% annual savings within in-scope spend areas.
  • Provide support for significant sourcing activities, including negotiation of contracts with highest value/highest impact to the company.
Requirements:
  • Minimum of 3-5 years experience in Strategic Sourcing roles, including the ability to work through transformational efforts within the team.
  • Executive presence and influence, with demonstrated ability to tell a story and influence the direction of the organization, including at the most senior levels of the organization.
  • Anticipates trends, understands implications, and creates actionable plans to prepare for future needs.
  • Familiar with emerging Procurement technologies.
  • Outstanding communication skills, ability to speak to the business and simplify complex technical sourcing aspects into concepts the business can understand, assess, and ultimately use to make decisions.
  • Strong customer service focus.
  • Experience listening to client needs and partnering to deliver results that are mutually beneficial for the client and the organization.
  • Specific experience in leading large, complex sourcing.
  • Effective influencing and negotiating skills, both external and internal, and ability to flex influence with various levels of the organization.
  • High degree of analytical skills, able to rapidly understand and synthesize disparate data into meaningful information to support critical business decisions.
  • Strong understanding of the pharmaceutical industry and development/commercialization of new drugs.
Education:
  • Bachelor's degree in Business, Supply Chain, or relevant technical expertise. Advanced degree (MBA/MS) preferred.
Competencies:
  • Accountability for Results
  • Strategic Thinking & Problem Solving
  • Patient & Customer Centricity
  • Impactful Communication
  • Respectful Collaboration
  • Empowered Development


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