Job Description
The Company
At Biogen, our mission is clear: we are pioneers in neuroscience. Biogen discovers, develops, and delivers worldwide innovative therapies for people living with serious neurological and neurodegenerative diseases. One of the world’s first global biotechnology companies, Biogen was founded in 1978 and today has the leading portfolio of medicines to treat multiple sclerosis, has introduced the first and only approved treatment for spinal muscular atrophy, and is focused on advancing neuroscience research programs in Alzheimer’s disease and dementia, MS and neuroimmunology, movement disorders, neuromuscular disorders, acute neurology, neurocognitive disorders, pain, and ophthalmology. Biogen also manufactures and commercializes biosimilars of advanced biologics.
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Global Business Services
The Global Business Services (GBS) team is a newly formed organization established to transform Biogen’s business processes to set a platform to scale global operations, fuel commercial growth and the innovation pipeline. Further, GBS will provide further value by developing and delivering a suite of business solutions and support services that are valued by internal customers. GBS will deliver services by leveraging a global delivery model, operational transparency and metrics, leveraging global best practices, and a service-oriented process improvement culture. All solutions will be supported by strong business cases and ultimately monitored for the effectiveness and efficiency against benchmarks and service level agreements.
The vision of GBS at Biogen is to be recognized as a world-class Global Business Services organization driven by the desire for excellence in its people, business solutions, execution and partnerships with internal customers.
The GBS team will champion building a continuous improvement culture that other parts of the organization will recognize and seek out for business support. We are developing a performance-based culture supported by tools, training, and well-defined accountability, where people can build their career or prepare for a role in the wider business or elsewhere within GBS. We seek individuals who can enhance our team with their knowledge, skills, innovation, collaboration and “can do” attitude.
The Position
The Commercial Category Leader, Global Procurement is a newly created global leadership role to lead the evolution of Commercial organization, balancing the operational costs against effective service delivery. This role reports into the Chief Procurement Officer and is a member of Procurement leadership team representing a commercial family of global categories.
This individual will be responsible for further building and strengthening a team to develop the Biogen’s Commercial strategy in support of the company’s commercial services and procurement vision. The Commercial Category Leader should be a visionary who can advise and the influence the team on best practices (policy, governance, strategic planning, operating models, and processes etc.). The ability to forge relationships, work cross functionally, generate opportunities and drive new initiatives will be essential.
Key Accountabilities & Responsibilities:
• Member of Procurement leadership team accountable for about $350M in spend for Global Commercial Services Category covering the following sub categories:
• Agencies
• Market Research and Print Fulfillment
• Meetings Management
• Provide leadership on the global Commercial category and ensure Procurement leadership understands priorities and needs for category under responsibility. Make recommendations to leadership from a customer standpoint, by aggregating the voice of the internal customer.
• Ensures resourcing and bandwidth to meet the business needs
• Identifies and leads CI initiatives in partnership with stakeholders
Category Management:
• Accountable to lead the global Commercial category and sub category leaders to develop and implement sub category strategies for Agencies, Market Research and Print Fulfillment, and Meetings Management
• Accountable for performance managing and continually improving Commercial category strategy
• Support globalization of processes to drive efficiency, leverage, and savings in partnership with International Procurement Lead
• Leverages cross-functional teams using spend data analytics, market research, benchmarks, and cost modeling to identify and leverage high value opportunities that deliver innovative and sustainable value, operational efficiencies and risk mitigation to the business
• Partners with senior stakeholders to build relationships that facilitate realization of business value and savings
• Continually monitors the market to understand leading practices and changes in market conditions
Sourcing:
• Develops and implements sourcing, negotiating and contracting strategies to achieve category goals
• Develops and improves strategy for catalogs, buying channels, and sourcing playbook development
• Ensures efficiency of events through appropriate use of buying channels, catalogs, and RFx events and champions ongoing continuous improvement.
• Ensure category analysts and procurement operations are aligned to category strategy/plan to maximum value
Supplier Management:
• Responsible for supplier management activities include issue resolution. Ensuring the appropriate level of oversight, direction, development, and compliance to contracted terms based on the defined criteria
• Serves as a supplier relationship manager for critical suppliers
• Responsible for supplier evaluations including understanding capabilities and risk prior to and during the relationship
Stakeholder Management:
• Responsible for business stakeholder management by working collaboratively and representing all procurement – direct, indirect, strategic and transactional activities – to the respective businesses.
Performance Indicators:
• Value creation including savings
• Spend under category management
• Category performance metrics (from category plan)
• Sourcing events planned v. executed
• Diversity spend
• Innovation projects, value created from supply base
• Customer satisfaction and business partner feedback
• Implemented CI and associated value
• Supplier performance
• Organizational health metrics and action plan implementation
Qualifications
The Candidate Profile
The ideal candidate will be a charismatic, collaborative leader who can articulate a vision, set direction and engage and motivate others to achieve outstanding results. This individual must be able to engage and influence other functions and key stakeholders in a collaborative manner to achieve the required outcomes. S/He must combine a strong strategic focus with natural analytical skills and project execution capability that has been acquired and developed in a complex, international environment.
Qualifications:
• 10+ years of experience in procurement or related field; experience in the below strongly preferred:
o Accomplished in category management (8years+) and has Commercial category expertise for (5years+)
o Strong experience with negotiation of contract and commercial terms and conditions and able to coach others (8years+)
• Strong global leadership & influence skills that inspire trust, collaboration, operational excellence (5years+)
• Ability to build effective relationships and influence peers and key stakeholders
• Excellent interpersonal, motivational and leadership skills
• Communicates and influences effectively, with the ability to motivate and influence others inside and outside of own function
• Ability to deal with change and ambiguity effectively
• Strong project management skills with ability to plan tasks, assign resources, manage progress, remove barriers, manage change, resolve conflict, build consensus, and motivate team members across multiple projects concurrently (5years+)
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to tailor messages to the given audience. Can present information in a clear and concise manner
• Ability to prioritize, organize and multitask in a flexible, fast-paced and challenging environment
• Strong process and cost improvement skills
• C.P.M./CPSM certification desirable
Necessary Experience/Skills
• Must be sensitive to and can manage cross culturally. Ability to manage conflict and pressure by effectively facilitating healthy interaction, discourse and decision making that builds consensus and alignment.
• Proven ability to see a vision and gain alignment across the organization with exceptional impacting and influencing skills.
• Must possess outstanding analytical, and problem-solving skills and the ability to work with enterprise-wide information systems.
• Strong experience and expertise with change management.
• Empathy – able to carry the tough messages with dignity, class and understanding of potential impact on others.
• Strategic thinker and visionary with an equal passion to implement and execute.
• High level of business acumen.
• Must demonstrate a passion for, and proven success in, driving continuous process improvement. Lean and Six Sigma training and/or certification is a decided plus.
• Demonstrates strategic enterprise thinking, finding innovative ways to serve patients, and build trust, reputation and business.
• Creates the environment that inspires and enables people to collaborate and move the organization forward.
• Focuses on the few priorities and delivers superior results.
• Track record of elevating the capabilities of an organization for now, as well as the future.
Characteristics
The successful Candidate will bring commitment and a positive attitude to everything they do and will be passionate about the success and growth of the Company, business, and the team. Also:
• Ability to live the Company's values.
• A high level of intellectual curiosity and the ability to grasp pertinent details, recognize subtleties, critically analyze data, and successfully solve problems.
• Sound judgment with a blend of intelligence, common sense, and a knowledge and understanding of people. An individual who can successfully engender trust and loyalty, does the right thing, and can foster an environment of open communication.
• Ability to communicate well with all levels of stakeholders, both internally and externally.
• High level of self-initiative with a strong sense of urgency, accountability, resiliency, persistence and tenacity.
• Management presence with credibility and the ability to lead through influence and accomplishments while blending together diverse ideas, opinions, and perspectives across a wide range of people.
• Passionate and focused, but still have fun and deliver results.
• Demonstrates ethics, integrity and trust while acting with courage and candor.
• Someone who asks questions and reaches conclusions based on facts and objectivity. Always willing to acknowledge and value other people’s views and explain the why behind decisions.
Education:
• Bachelor’s degree is required. An advanced degree and/or certification is highly preferred. MBA is a plus.
Additional Information
The Commercial Category Leader, Global Procurement is a newly created global leadership role to lead the evolution of Commercial organization, balancing the operational costs against effective service delivery. This role reports into the Chief Procurement Officer and is a member of Procurement leadership team representing a commercial family of global categories.
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