Global Procurement Manager, External Manufacturing Procurement

AstraZeneca is on a path to deliver at least fifteen new medicines before the end of the decade.

As a global business, we are playing our part in solving the biggest challenges of our time, from climate change to access to healthcare and disease prevention. We are harnessing the power of science and innovation and our global reach to make a positive impact on society, healthcare systems, and the environment. This starts with us, but matters to everyone, everywhere.

Committed to science-led innovation, our investment in new technologies is providing ground-breaking next generation therapies. External Manufacturing Procurement is at the forefront of establishing external manufacturing partners for these new technologies to enable the commercial launch of our new portfolio.

The Role

Reporting to the Associate Director of External Manufacturing Procurement Business Operations, the Global Procurement Manager (GPM) role will lead sourcing & procurement activities for Active Pharmaceutical Ingredient (API), and Formulation & Packaging (F&P) categories of external manufacturing, for both small molecule and biologics businesses. Will lead commercial procurement activities with assigned Suppliers, and for assigned Brands within a therapy area in support of Therapy Area Directors within the team.

In conjunction with other team members, develops long term strategies on two dimensions: for brands, working with Therapy Leads to drive end-to-end supply chain value, as well as full product lifecycle value; for technologies, developing API and F&P category strategies. Ultimately ensuring that the external supply base can support these strategies well into the future.

Key Accountabilities

• Working alongside our Global Procurement Services (central procurement services organization) in advising on and driving procurement strategies to make decisions vital to purchase products and services in congruence with interpersonal objectives
• Delivering on AZ Procurement Value Proposition
• Performing Master Supply Agreements, and/or individual product contracts for assigned Suppliers or Brands.
• Supporting strategic relationship management (internal business partner and supplier) - to ensure that Category Strategies are highly aligned to current and future Business needs and that the supply base is capable of supporting these strategies.
• Supporting risk assessment processes for suppliers.
• Chipping in to implementation of Therapy Area and Category plans to ensure that the underpinning process improvement and procurement activities deliver the expected business value in accordance with the strategic plans
• Support AZ’s industry-leading Sustainability agenda with suppliers
• Develop positive relationships with vendors to achieve driven value and quality of services
• Developing excellent relationships & influence with internal partners

Required Skills & Knowledge

• Customer Management
• Degree level or equivalent qualifications
• Comfort with risk and ambiguous situations
• Excellent collaborator
• Strong interpersonal skills and ability to influence others
• Commercial, Procurement experience, negotiating large, sophisticated deals
• Minimum 7 years in Procurement / Business Development roles
• Project management, organizational change and partnership skills
• Sound understanding of Safety, Health and Environment
• Analytical and Systems savvy, working with Procure-to-pay systems, SAP, Microsoft Suite

Desirable Skills & Knowledge

• Excellent proven understanding of the pharmaceutical industry
• Proven capability of leading and developing commercial partnerships of significant scale
• Knowledge of the CDMO supply base across our technology areas
• Sustainability platform requirements of CDMOs

This position can sit in the following locations:

Additional Locations Gärtuna (Swe), Macclesfield (UK), Shanghai (China)