Assoc. Dir, Vendor Management

Our company is a global health care leader with a diversified portfolio of prescription medicines, vaccines, and animal health products. The difference between potential and achievement lies in the spark that fuels innovation and inventiveness; this is the space where our company has codified its legacy for over a century. Our company success is backed by integrity, forward momentum, and an inspiring mission to achieve new milestones in global healthcare.

Our company is on a quest for cures and is committed to be the world’s premier, research-intensive biopharmaceutical company. Today, we’re doubling down on this goal. Our company Research Laboratories is a scientific research facility and will take our company leading discovery capabilities and world-class small molecule and biologics R&D expertise to create breakthrough science that radically changes the way we approach serious diseases.

We are currently seeking an Associate Principal Scientist, Vendor Management to be an integral part of a Biomarker Operations Vendor Management team in our company translational medicine area. You will serve as a functional interface between internal company project teams, internal molecular biomarker lab and diagnostic vendors. Your responsibilities will include maintaining a high level of vendor productivity, proactively assessing new capabilities and technologies, participating in external vendor audits and due diligence, ensuring both internal and external compliance, adherence to vendor standardization and managing problem resolution. You will also closely partner with our company internal scientists and alliance and relationship managers, as well as colleagues in our company's Licensing, Procurement, Finance, and Quality Assurance departments. This position will report into the Biomarker Operations Vendor Management Director and be based either at a our company Pennsylvania or New Jersey site.

You will have experience in molecular biomarkers, clinical trial central and specialty lab processes and demonstrated success in vendor management. You will have strong verbal and written communication skills and be expected to operate in a highly collaborative and matrixed environment. You will excel under fast-paced and fluid conditions and be a strong advocate for operational excellence.

In this exciting role, you will:

• Identify, troubleshoot, and solve operational issues
• Work with vendors to continuously improve their level of service
• Ensure vendor agreements and other appropriate vendor documents are in place
• Manage budget forecasts, tracking, and invoice payments as needed
• Collect metrics on vendor performance and develop action plans when needed
• Ownership to ensure assigned vendor deliverables and timelines are clear, resources are appropriately planned and managed, communications are effective, risk management plans are in place, and information is accurately tracked and accessible.

• Participate in external vendor audits and due diligence
• Maintain effective communication and working relationships with project team members, vendors and other internal company teams
• Guarantee vendor capacity meets demand
• Monitor processes and identify opportunities for improvement
• Ensure both internal and external compliance
• Assess and pilot new vendors, capabilities, and technologies

Qualifications

Education Minimum Requirement:

• BA/BS in a scientific or technological field of study

Required Experience and Skills:

• Experience working at a vendor and managing sponsors
• For MS or higher degree: 3 plus years of scientific related job experience
• Vendor Management experience
• Project Management experience within the Science realm (or relative realm)
• For BA/BS: 6 plus years of scientific related job experience

Preferred Experience and Skills:

• Molecular biomarker and diagnostic experience
• Formal Project Management certification or training
• Drug discovery experience, including familiarity with clinical trial execution
• Leadership roles

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Expected salary range:

$130,960.00 - $206,200.00

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Requisition ID:R248769