The Manager, R&D Procurement is responsible for managing the end-to-end procurement process, from strategic sourcing through contracting, ensuring execution aligns with category strategy, business requirements, and procurement policies. This role will provide procurement support for clinical study vendor contracting activities, including the sourcing, negotiation, and contracting of vendors that provide services necessary to conduct and execute clinical studies. Examples include central laboratories, central institutional review boards (IRBs), medical imaging, electrocardiogram (ECG) services, and other required services to support the study. The role will partner closely with Clinical Development, Clinical Operations, Legal, Finance, and other business stakeholders to evaluate suppliers, negotiate contracts and budgets, and ensure timely execution of agreements in support of multiple clinical studies. The position requires strong project management, organizational, contracting, and stakeholder-management skills to effectively manage concurrent studies, vendors, and contracting activities.
Responsibilities:
- Manage clinical study vendor procurement activities from sourcing through contracting, ensuring timely and compliant execution in support of clinical study timelines and business objectives.
- Lead sourcing and contracting activities for clinical study service providers, including central laboratories, central IRBs, imaging providers, ECG vendors, and other specialized or non-standard services.
- Partner with Clinical Operations, Clinical Development, Legal, Finance, and other stakeholders to define requirements, and select appropriate vendors.
- Support the drafting, review, redlining, negotiation, and execution of vendor agreements, statements of work, budgets, change orders, and related contracting documents.
- Source and evaluate suppliers for non-standard clinical study services, including identifying qualified vendors, conducting competitive assessments, supporting requests for proposal, and documenting supplier-selection decisions.
- Manage multiple clinical studies and associated contracting workstreams concurrently, maintaining clear timelines, priorities, action logs, and status reporting.
- Track contract deliverables, approvals, milestones, and dependencies to identify and resolve issues that could affect study start-up, study execution, or supplier performance.
- Identify and mitigate procurement, commercial, contractual, operational, and supply risks in collaboration with Category Managers, Procurement leadership, Legal, and clinical business partners.
- Maintain excellence in source-to-contract and requisition-to-pay activities, including compliance with procurement policies, process controls, supplier governance, and documentation requirements.
- Identify opportunities to improve contracting and sourcing processes, reduce inefficiencies, manage savings leakage, and enhance assurance of supply for clinical study services.
- Lead or contribute to continuous improvement initiatives that strengthen clinical vendor sourcing, contracting, budget negotiation, and stakeholder collaboration.
- Lead and develop a team of Procurement Specialists, as applicable, by setting performance expectations, providing coaching, and building capabilities in clinical procurement and contracting.