Manager, R&D Procurement

Company Description

About AbbVie

AbbVie's mission is to discover and deliver innovative medicines and solutions that solve serious health issues today and address the medical challenges of tomorrow. We strive to have a remarkable impact on people's lives across several key therapeutic areas including immunology, oncology and neuroscience - and products and services in our Allergan Aesthetics portfolio. For more information about AbbVie, please visit us at . Follow @abbvie on LinkedIn, Facebook , Instagram , X and YouTube.

Job Description

The Manager, R&D Procurement is responsible for managing the end-to-end procurement process, from strategic sourcing through contracting, ensuring execution aligns with category strategy, business requirements, and procurement policies. This role will provide procurement support for clinical study vendor contracting activities, including the sourcing, negotiation, and contracting of vendors that provide services necessary to conduct and execute clinical studies. Examples include central laboratories, central institutional review boards (IRBs), medical imaging, electrocardiogram (ECG) services, and other required services to support the study. The role will partner closely with Clinical Development, Clinical Operations, Legal, Finance, and other business stakeholders to evaluate suppliers, negotiate contracts and budgets, and ensure timely execution of agreements in support of multiple clinical studies. The position requires strong project management, organizational, contracting, and stakeholder-management skills to effectively manage concurrent studies, vendors, and contracting activities.

Responsibilities:

• Manage clinical study vendor procurement activities from sourcing through contracting, ensuring timely and compliant execution in support of clinical study timelines and business objectives.
• Lead sourcing and contracting activities for clinical study service providers, including central laboratories, central IRBs, imaging providers, ECG vendors, and other specialized or non-standard services.
• Partner with Clinical Operations, Clinical Development, Legal, Finance, and other stakeholders to define requirements, and select appropriate vendors.
• Support the drafting, review, redlining, negotiation, and execution of vendor agreements, statements of work, budgets, change orders, and related contracting documents.
• Source and evaluate suppliers for non-standard clinical study services, including identifying qualified vendors, conducting competitive assessments, supporting requests for proposal, and documenting supplier-selection decisions.
• Manage multiple clinical studies and associated contracting workstreams concurrently, maintaining clear timelines, priorities, action logs, and status reporting.
• Track contract deliverables, approvals, milestones, and dependencies to identify and resolve issues that could affect study start-up, study execution, or supplier performance.
• Identify and mitigate procurement, commercial, contractual, operational, and supply risks in collaboration with Category Managers, Procurement leadership, Legal, and clinical business partners.
• Maintain excellence in source-to-contract and requisition-to-pay activities, including compliance with procurement policies, process controls, supplier governance, and documentation requirements.
• Identify opportunities to improve contracting and sourcing processes, reduce inefficiencies, manage savings leakage, and enhance assurance of supply for clinical study services.
• Lead or contribute to continuous improvement initiatives that strengthen clinical vendor sourcing, contracting, budget negotiation, and stakeholder collaboration.
• Lead and develop a team of Procurement Specialists, as applicable, by setting performance expectations, providing coaching, and building capabilities in clinical procurement and contracting.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in business administration, Supply Chain Mgmt, Clinical Operations, Life Sciences, Legal Studies, or a related field.
• Minimum of seven years of experience in procurement, strategic sourcing, clinical operations, pharmaceutical operations, supplier management, contracting, or a related business function.
• Experience supporting clinical development or clinical study activities, preferably within the pharmaceutical, biotechnology, medical device, contract research organization, or healthcare industry.
• Demonstrated experience with clinical study vendor sourcing and contracting, including services such as central laboratories, central IRBs, imaging, ECG, and other specialized or non-standard clinical services.
• Experience drafting, reviewing, redlining, and negotiating commercial contracts, statements of work, budgets, change orders, and related procurement documents.
• Legal, paralegal, contract management, or other relevant legal experience is preferred, particularly experience interpreting contractual terms and partnering with Legal during negotiations. 
• Experience sourcing and evaluating non-standard services, including supplier identification, competitive bidding, proposal evaluation, commercial analysis, and supplier selection.
• Strong project management and organizational skills, with the ability to manage multiple clinical studies, vendors, contracting workstreams, deadlines, and competing priorities simultaneously.
• Strong communication, influencing, negotiation, problem-solving, and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to work effectively across Clinical Operations, Legal, Finance, Procurement, and external suppliers.
• Previous experience managing teams or leading cross-functional workstreams, with a demonstrated ability to coach others and drive accountability
• Strong analytical skills and working knowledge of procurement operations, contract lifecycle management, supplier governance, risk mitigation, and applicable procurement policies. Knowledge of pharmaceutical clinical development processes and clinical study execution is preferred.

Key Stakeholders: Business Leads, Business Partners, Category Leads/Managers, Procurement Leads, Procurement Strategy & Capabilities Office

Additional Information

Applicable only to applicants applying to a position in any location with pay disclosure requirements under state or local law: ​

• The compensation range described below is the range of possible base pay compensation that the Company believes in good faith it will pay for this role at the time of this posting based on the job grade for this position. Individual compensation paid within this range will depend on many factors including geographic location, and we may ultimately pay more or less than the posted range. This range may be modified in the future. ​
• We offer a comprehensive package of benefits including paid time off (vacation, holidays, sick), medical/dental/vision insurance and 401(k) to eligible employees.​
• This job is eligible to participate in our long-term incentive programs. 

Note: No amount of pay is considered to be wages or compensation until such amount is earned, vested, and determinable. The amount and availability of any bonus, commission, incentive, benefits, or any other form of compensation and benefits that are allocable to a particular employee remains in the Company's sole and absolute discretion unless and until paid and may be modified at the Company’s sole and absolute discretion, consistent with applicable law.​

AbbVie is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to operating with integrity, driving innovation, transforming lives and serving our community.  Equal Opportunity Employer/Veterans/Disabled. 

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