R&D Associate Procurement Director

Cambridge, UK, Warsaw, Poland, Gothenburg, Sweden, Mississauga, Canada

Play your part in impacting patients’ lives

AstraZeneca is a global, science-led, patient-focused biopharmaceutical company that focuses on the discovery, development and commercialisation of prescription medicines for some of the world’s most serious diseases. Our innovative medicines are used by millions of patients worldwide.

Contribute to our truly global Procurement team, which reflects the full diversity of the people we serve. Your voice counts: different experiences, backgrounds and ways of working are respected here. United by curiosity, we share insights to challenge conventions. By collaborating and innovating with each other, our stakeholders, and our suppliers, we are creating the most competitive supplier ecosystem.

R&D Procurement support both R&D Oncology and R&D Biopharmaceuticals. These R&D units have responsibility for the value chain from discovery through to late-stage development, enabling rapid acceleration of promising early-stage assets and life-cycle management programs.

We are now recruiting an Associate Director of Procurement to join R&D Procurement (Global Procurement), assigned to R&D Digital Health. The position is located at one of AstraZeneca’s vibrant R&D sites in Cambridge (UK), Gothenburg (Sweden), Warsaw, (Poland) or Mississauga (Canada).

What you'll do:

The role is accountable for leading a complex category, or leading a cluster of categories, within R&D Procurement. The role reports to the Director of Procurement - R&D Clinical Technology. You will work closely with various R&D groups such as Digital Health and clinical teams to support new clinical technology requirements. You will manage key partner relationships across R&D to understand needs and develop strategy.

In addition to engaging with procurement and suppliers to support new requirements, this position will play a key role in serving as an SME in R&D Digital Health and Clinical Technology bringing expertise and knowledge to the procurement network.

Strategy:

Accountable for the designing and implementation of category strategies to optimise business efficiency.

Accountable for category management globally including strategic sourcing, Supplier Collaboration & Innovation and contract & risk management.

Accountable for developing and maintaining expert knowledge of respective global supply markets, competitors and product innovations.

Accountable for understanding the global category spend and finding opportunities to increase quality and improve value for money. Facilitate implementation of procurement change initiatives within category to improve business performance.

Leadership:

Accountable for managing category support resources, category targets and overall category related portfolio.

Leads, coaches and develops professional aspects of Procurement team members where necessary

Business & Supplier Engagement:

Develop an extensive understanding of customer needs and the business environment. Build strong relationship with customers and ensure customer satisfaction.

In conjunction with stakeholder groups, defines business needs from their area of responsibility and translates these needs into specific resource requirements for Procurement

Develops senior level relationships in order to resolve issues, optimise business performance and develop future improvement opportunities

Work with the Strategic Intelligence team to perform procurement reporting and analysis of management information to identify potential improvement opportunities as well as identification of innovative procurement solutions that provide savings and process efficiencies for the organization.

Fosters trusted relationships with vendors to achieve better pricing and quality of services. Maintains contractual and business relationships with suppliers to the highest standards. Address supplier issues to ensure the highest level of service delivery.

Support annual peer reviews of category, region or market strategies

Supports the planning and reviewing of the performance of Clin Tech Procurement Team; and other functional teams linked to area of responsibility

Directs & supports new initiatives and improvement programmes aimed at ensuring compliance, continuous improvement, technical excellence and improving cost-effectiveness

Instil the highest standards of compliance and ethics consistently across AZ

Essential Skills & Experience

• Degree level qualification (or equivalent)
• Thorough knowledge of pharmaceutical industry, specifically clinical development
• Expertise in at least one area of Procurement or relevant R&D experience.
• Proven leadership & stakeholder management experience
• Communication skills and ability to influence others
• Comfort with risk and ambiguous situations

Desirable:

• Strong knowledge base in Digital Health and clinical technology

At AstraZeneca, we’re dedicated to being a Great Place to Work. Where you are empowered to push the boundaries of science and fuel your entrepreneurial spirit. There’s no better place to make a difference to medicine, patients and society. An inclusive culture that champions diversity and collaboration. Always committed to lifelong learning, growth and development.

There are so many fantastic employee benefits that AstraZeneca offer! A competitive salary, private healthcare, a fantastic holiday allowance, phenomenal training and development opportunities, and much more.

So What's Next?

Are you already envisioning yourself joining our team? Good, because we can’t wait to hear from you!

We welcome your CV and covering letter no later than midnight Monday 8th May 2023

Competitive Salary and Benefits

Open Date: 21st April 2023

Close Date: 8th May 2023

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AstraZeneca embraces diversity and equality of opportunity. We are committed to building an inclusive and diverse team representing all backgrounds, with as wide a range of perspectives as possible, and harnessing industry-leading skills. We believe that the more inclusive we are, the better our work will be. We welcome and consider applications to join our team from all qualified candidates, regardless of their characteristics. We comply with all applicable laws and regulations on non-discrimination in employment (and recruitment), as well as work authorization and employment eligibility verification requirements.