Sr. Manager Procurement and Purchasing
The Position
This is an exciting opportunity for a strong leader with procurement, purchasing and sourcing experience to join a growing team, and redefine team’s responsibilities and company’s purchasing practices. The Senior Manger role has a high visibility across the company as it supports the purchasing needs of all departments. The right person would have strong relationship building and influencing skills who would build a vision for scalable and effective procurement, purchasing and sourcing processes, and would implement their vision.
Responsibilities:
- Leads change and challenge the status quo to drive process effectiveness
- Develop a strategy for procurement, purchasing, and sourcing, and implement strategy
- Partner with all departments to streamline and improve purchasing practices and build procurement and sourcing processes
- Evaluate company purchasing needs, forecasted and actual spend, and determine opportunities to consolidate vendors and establish preferred vendors with negotiated terms
- Collaborate with legal to negotiate contracts with key vendors
- Implement standards and guidelines for supplier evaluation
- Establish a comprehensive vendor onboarding process that meets regulatory, legal, financial, GMP and information security requirements
- Work closely with suppliers to remedy and track issues, present forecasts, retrieve quotes and other activities as needed
- Lead vendor business reviews and identify opportunities for process improvements and cost efficiencies
- Evaluate implementing an e-procurement tool to allow departments to order directly from a variety of vendors with negotiated terms
- Manage a team of five; support team with goal setting, prioritization, and addressing escalated matters; build and contribute to a positive and collaborative culture
- Establish key performance indicators and a process to monitor and incorporate them in decision making
- Work closely with FP&A and Accounting to ensure purchase orders correctly capture financial data, and procurement and purchasing processes are effective in ensuring financial discipline across the company
- Support Accounts Payable with addressing vendor, invoice and purchase order discrepancies and lead efforts to streamline processes and improve cross-team interaction and effectiveness
- Support company-wide initiatives for implementation of additional ERP functionality and future updates
- Ensure governance with Arrowhead policies and procedures
Requirements:
- Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Life Sciences, or another relevant field
- 5+ years of experience in sourcing, procurement, purchasing
- 3+ years of leadership experience managing teams, setting a team’s strategy and implementation
- A proven track record of effectively managing and collaborating with internal and external stakeholders
- Experience using ERP/procurement/purchasing system
Preferred:
- Master’s degree in Business, Finance, Accounting, Supply Chain, or another relevant field.
- Master’s degree in Business, Finance, Accounting, Supply Chain, or another relevant field.
Experience with Microsoft Dynamics 365 and procurement and purchasing solutions like Ariba - Prior experience working in a life sciences company