Global Strategic Sourcing Director, Cro Clinical

2 weeks ago


Mississauga, Canada Alexion Pharmaceuticals,Inc. Full time

Location: Mississauga, Canada

Job reference: R-193840

Date posted: 03/04/2024

**Job Title: Global Strategic Sourcing Director(GSS), CRO Clinical Outsourcing**
**Location: Mississauga**

**This is what you will do**

We are excited expanded our Global Strategic Sourcing (GSS) R&D team to support Alexion’s Global Portfolio in new modalities of intervention and therapeutic areas and help deliver important medicines to our patients. The GSS R&D organization is on a transformative path to meet the rapidly evolving needs of the business.

Through our “Growth Through Innovation (GTI)” program, you will help to drive the success of our R&D organization while ensuring we can meet our business goal of delivering important medicines to patients suffering from rare disease to 100 countries worldwide. **In this role, you will be**responsible for developing and leading category strategies in support of CRO outsourced clinical services in our Nephrology Therapeutic area.** You will be partnering and advising key stakeholders on supply market dynamics and leading practices which improve value, minimize risk, and ensure quality & cost effectiveness.

Your primary focus will be helping to establish a best practices Category Management and Strategic Sourcing program for **CRO outsourced clinical services** actively supporting the development a global network of preferred and strategic suppliers. Strategic vision and tactical execution are key to success in this role.

**J**o**b** Du**ti**e**s & **R**e**s**pon**s**i**b**ilit**i**e**s**:

- Align with Clinical Development Nephrology Therapeutic Leads to understand the portfolio delivery and tmeline requirements. Develop and execute a clear category strategy to support these studies, manage and execute global sourcing events, and procurement strategies for outsourced **CRO clinical services.**:

- Collaborate with key stakeholders to ensure effective alignment to support business requirements while appropriately managing quality, speed, cost, risk, and ease-of-use.
- Be knowledgeable in market trends, benchmarks, and best practices.
- Ensure a data-driven approach to category management and high-quality analytics to deliver insights, capabilities, and results.
- Coordinates bid defense meeting and provide bid analysis to project teams.
- Contract lifecycle management including negotiation of clinical study contracts and change orders (scope of work, commercial terms, budget) through to close out.
- Partner with suppliers and internal stakeholders to identify, manage, escalate, and resolve issues related to supplier performance.
- Develop and foster a supplier experience that nurtures the perception of Alexion as a “customer of choice.”

**You will need to have**

Essential Qualifications
- 10+ years Bio-Pharma industry experience with extensive knowledge of strategic sourcing and category management.
- Exceptional negotiation skills: you are a tenacious problem-solver with a focus on building mutually beneficial relationships.
- Proficient working in a dynamic matrix organization
- Excellent communication and ability to influence others.

**We would prefer for you to have**

**Preferred Qualifications**
- Bachelor Degree ; Advanced Degree ; CPSM or equivalent
- Subject expertise in the Drug Development process

**#LI-Hybrid**:
AstraZeneca requires all US employees to be fully vaccinated for COVID-19 but will consider requests for reasonable accommodations as required by applicable law.



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