Associate Director, Category Management

2 weeks ago


North Chicago Illinois, United States AbbVie Full time
Job Description

Associate Director, Procurement (hybrid, 3 days onsite in Lake County, IL)

Company Description

AbbVie's mission is to discover and deliver innovative medicines and solutions that solve serious health issues today and address the medical challenges of tomorrow. We strive to have a remarkable impact on people's lives across several key therapeutic areas – immunology, oncology, neuroscience, and eye care – and products and services in our Allergan Aesthetics portfolio. For more information about AbbVie, please visit us at . Follow @abbvie on , , ,  and . 

As an Associate Director of Category Management, this role provides guidance to and influences business stakeholders of indirect spend categories with particular emphases on Information Technology.   This individual will drive value for spend categories, grow and sustain partnerships with business stakeholders while enabling  AbbVie to be a customer of choice for suppliers under the guidance of the team Director.  

Responsibilities

Maximize category value by employing the following levers: Sourcing & Price Management, Demand Management, Transformational Sourcing, Specification Harmonization, & Process Optimization

Member of team that develops and guides category long range plan including strategy development, implementation, & modification

Provide leadership and strategic vision for AbbVie to optimize company value through selection of quality suppliers, fact-based negotiations, and performance-based contracting to protect the company's interests in partnership with Director

Drive Supplier Diversity and Sustainability targets  

Impact continuous improvement of Procurement processes and systems in alignment with Functional and Enterprise leadership

Build Global Supplier Relationship Management with top suppliers

Develop relationships with regional suppliers to anticipate and proactively address critical issues

Guide geographic stakeholder alignment within Europe, Asia, Latin America on spend management, savings opportunities and strategic supplier sourcing needs

Drive business unit stakeholder alignment with AbbVie / Allergan Aesthetics and therapeutic commercial organizations as well as affiliate indirect needs

Ensure that the functions, countries, and business units understand and comply with the appropriate corporate policies and processes as they related to procurement transactions

Coordinate internally with Procurement leadership on process, technology, organizational alignment, and strategic procurement imperatives

Influence international category and procurement managers inclusively and equitably, always engaging in a manner consistent with AbbVie target behaviors.                                                                                                         

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