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Bristol Myers Squibb Director, Agile Sourcing, Commercial in Princeton, New Jersey
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The Director of Agile Sourcing - Commercial focused position plays a critical role in driving the execution of global category strategies and ensuring best practices, continuous improvement, and data-driven outcomes. This role is responsible for leading the Sourcing Execution (Source to Contract) program at Bristol-Myers Squibb (BMS) and enabling the Category Management program across a diverse range of Commercial categories, including Market Services, Business Insights, Customer Outcomes, and Commercial Distribution.
This role drives resource allocation for sourcing excellence staff and outsourced providers supporting this function. This role is responsible for developing resource allocation plans, balancing critical competing priorities, and getting required buy-in from category leaders and SS&P Functional lead. They will ensure resources have required capabilities in sourcing, contracting, analytics, and are employing leading practices on a fit-for-purpose basis. This role will be a Change leader using a data-driven approach to sourcing and contracting activities, utilizing analytics and insights to inform decision-making and optimize outcomes.
Major Responsibilities and Accountabilities :
Sourcing Execution
Accountable for developing and driving the sourcing strategies to support Commercial business spend. Drive compliance to optimal buying channels.
Lead team to use appropriate methods of procurement and perform cost benefit analysis, prepare and solicit competitive bids, quotations and proposals with pertinent specifications, terms and conditions.
Evaluate and advise on competitive offerings to determine the overall best offer for a product or service while overseeing relationships with external partners to support sourcing facilitation and administration of contracts where appropriate.
Ensure negotiated terms are translated into contractual terms, following BMS templates provided by Legal Dept / Strategic Corporate Transactions, and working in close partnership with BMS Lawyers when needed.
Manage team performance using data to drive continuous improvement mindset.
Provide management of organization for team spanning across internal resources and external providers.
Ensure Procurement alignment with organizational goals; develop or utilize criteria for evaluating procurement department and staff performance, including evaluating and resolving department performance and procurement audit report issues.
Oversee compliance programs and ensure compliance and risk responsibilities are appropriately staffed and training conducted
Accountable for projects and their full compliance with BMS policies and external regulations/laws, including FCPA, FDA, EMA, SOX, Sunshine Act, and others).
Recruit, hire, onboard, train, and develop a fungible talent pool spanning across levels. Provide a pipeline of future sourcing managers for SS&P. Manage service partners as well as full-time employees, contractors and service provider. Manage dynamic staffing changes (promotion, rotation) and knowledge transfer due to pipelining and development responsibilities.
Transformation and Change leadership
Drive organizational strategy and continuous improvement to deliver S2C goals.
Direct all initiatives and strategic sourcing for Commercial, including all budgetary matters and management of resources.
Qualifications
Minimum Requirements
Minimum education of an Undergraduate Degree preferably in Supply Chain Management, Business management, Life Sciences, or Pharmaceutical.
Minimum of ten (10) years of business experience in which five (5) to seven (7) years are multi-disciplined procurement experience.
Minimum of three (3) to five (5) years of experience managing a direct team, with ability to manage large group of professionals. Hands on manager, who provides close leadership and support to his/her team.
Relevant Procurement & Subject Matter experience.
Experience leading and participating on cross-functional and/or global teams.
Procurement process knowledge, agreement management, financial analysis, market analysis, supplier analysis, supplier diversity, supplier management, technology utilization, strategic planning and integrated supply chain experience.
Preferred Qualifications
- Relevant professional certifications [e.g. Certified Purchasing Manager (CPM), Certified Professional in Supply Management (CPSM), Certified Supply Chain Professional (CSCP), Certified in Production and Inventory Management (CPIM).
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Site-essential roles require 100% of shifts onsite at your assigned facility. Site-by-design roles may be eligible for a hybrid work model with at least 50% onsite at your assigned facility. For these roles, onsite presence is considered an essential job function and is critical to collaboration, innovation, productivity, and a positive Company culture. For field-based and remote-by-design roles the ability to physically travel to visit customers, patients or business partners and to attend meetings on behalf of BMS as directed is an essential job function.
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Company: Bristol-Myers Squibb
Req Number: R1580879
Updated: 2024-05-05 01:55:35.166 UTC
Location: Princeton-NJ
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