Procurement Consulting Lead Jobs

Job Title: Procurement Consulting Lead

Location: Cambridge, MA (HYBRID)

Duration: 06 Months

EDUCATION, EXPERIENCE, AND SKILLS:

Required:

• 4-6 years of professional services or relevant procurement experience with knowledge of strategic sourcing and category management

• 6 years overall professional experience

• Proven Financial and Business Acumen; the ability to perform financial analysis

• Outstanding communication and project management capabilities

• Ability to deal with ambiguity and complexity

• Change management and process improvement skills

• Strategic thinker with solid facilitation ability supported by excellent interpersonal competencies (communication, leadership, influencing)

• Demonstrated capability in negotiation, conflict resolution and stakeholder management

• Ability to manage effectively in a global, fluid, interactive, matrix environment

• Skilled and experienced in project and risk management

• Proficiency in basic MS Office© software and other business systems (Ariba, Excel, PowerPoint, etc.)

Desired:

• Undergraduate level degree

• Pharmaceutical or life sciences industry experience

• Demonstrated ability in organizing, analyzing and reporting complex financial data with a solid grounding in basic procurement and financial processes and systems.

ACCOUNTABILITIES:

1. Collate supplier, market, category and internal business data and information for the US Region, and provide regional input and validation to the global Category Strategy, including facilitating the involvement of relevant stakeholders. Using this as a basis, contribute to regional-specific category strategies and communicate and distribute to relevant stakeholders in the procurement and business community.

2. Provide US Regional category input to inform the top-down target-setting process.

3. Develop a pipeline of US Regional category initiatives and opportunities (Savings / Innovation / ESG) using external supply market/business intelligence, application of benchmarking methodologies, and internal business partner knowledge.

4. Provide input into the development of the annual savings opportunity assessment based on the global and US Regional category strategy, business planning activities, and US Regional category pipeline, and ensure these are executed on a timely basis in line with the targeted goals.

5. Work with the required functions and/or other areas within Procurement (e.g. CoE) to support programs to deliver an excellent customer experience.

6. Non-category accountabilities:

• As well as within Procurement, develop strong working relationships with key stakeholders relating to US Regional category accountabilities, Procurement Groups, and General / Administrative functions such as Finance, HR, Legal, Privacy, and Compliance to ensure appropriate inputs to sourcing strategies and implementation plans

7. Administration

• Follow the defined process to ensure contracts developed in the region are effectively implemented at a regional and local level (as needed) including both terms and conditions and sign-off procedures