Buyer (Research Triangle Park, NC)

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About This Role

 

As a Buyer at Biogen, you will play a crucial role in our cross-functional team, ensuring that GMP/raw materials are procured efficiently and in compliance with established policies, strategies, and procedures. You will be responsible for maximizing returns on external spend while facilitating on-time and compliant procurement of goods and services necessary for manufacturing production campaigns. Your focus will be on minimizing excess and obsolete inventory (E&O) and maintaining cost-containment strategies. In this individual contributor position, you will work closely with various departments to ensure seamless procurement operations, contributing significantly to Biogen's manufacturing success and financial objectives.

What You'll Do

• Ensure all procurement transactions undergo proper due diligence review and documentation before conversion into a purchase order.

• Responsible for interfacing with Inventory Planning group to execute a purchasing strategy that is intended to ensure 100% compliance with financial objectives and site manufacturing goals.

• Collaborate with and engage internal stakeholders, including Quality, Supply Chain, Materials Science, and other cross-functional teams.

• Interact with suppliers on the communication of purchase orders, status, confirmation and delivery. 

• Work to resolve any supplier issues and escalate as needed. Participate in meetings to review and resolve supplier delays/issues.

• Ensure adherence to supply agreement conditions

• Facilitate information exchange with suppliers concerning lead times, quantity discounts, and vendor-specific issues impacting procurement timelines.
  
   

Who You Are

You are an experienced procurement professional, ideally with purchasing experience in a GMP-regulated environment. Experience purchasing raw materials, such as chemicals, filters, consumables, or related manufacturing materials, is preferred. You enjoy collaborating with diverse subject-matter experts and can work independently as well as part of a team.

 

Required Skills:

• Undergraduate degree or equivalent combination of education and experience

• 1-3 years of related purchasing experience

• Proficiency in MS Word, MS PowerPoint, MS Excel, and Outlook.

• Excellent oral and written communication skills.

• Workable knowledge of ERP systems (SAP/Oracle).

• Ability to run reports and update metrics as needed.

• Excellent analytical skills and ability to present data logically and understandably to internal and external audiences.
  
   

Preferred Skills:

• Experience in the pharma/biotech industry or GMP environment.

• CPSM (Certified Professional in Supply Chain) certification.

Global Business Services

The Global Business Services (GBS) team is an organization established to transform Biogen's business processes, a platform to scale global operations, fuel commercial growth and the innovation pipeline. Further, GBS provides added value by developing and delivering a suite of business solutions and support services that are appreciated by internal customers. GBS provides services by leveraging a global delivery model, operational transparency and metrics, leveraging global best practices, and a service-oriented process improvement culture.

The vision of GBS at Biogen is to be recognized as a world-class Global Business Services organization driven by the desire for excellence in its people, business solutions, execution and partnerships with internal customers.

The GBS team champions building a continuous improvement culture that other parts of the organization recognize and seek out for business support. We are a performance-based culture organization supported by tools, training, and well-defined accountability, where people can build their career or prepare for a role in the wider business or elsewhere within GBS. We seek individuals who can enhance our team with their knowledge, skills, innovation, collaboration and can do attitude.

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Additional Information

Base salary offered is determined through an analytical approach utilizing a combination of factors including, but not limited to, relevant skills & experience, job location, and internal equity.

Regular employees are eligible to receive both short term and long-term incentives, including cash bonus and equity incentive opportunities, designed to reward recent achievements and recognize your future potential based on individual, business unit and company performance. 

In addition to compensation, Biogen offers a full and highly competitive range of benefits designed to support our employees' and their families physical, financial, emotional, and social well-being ; including, but not limited to:

• Medical, Dental, Vision, & Life insurances
• Fitness & Wellness programs including a fitness reimbursement 
• Short- and Long-Term Disability insurance
• A minimum of 15 days of paid vacation and an additional end-of-year shutdown time off (Dec 26-Dec 31)
• Up to 12 company paid holidays + 3 paid days off for Personal Significance 
• 80 hours of sick time per calendar year
• Paid Maternity and Parental Leave benefit 
• 401(k) program participation with company matched contributions
• Employee stock purchase plan 
• Tuition reimbursement of up to $10,000 per calendar year 
• Employee Resource Groups participation

Why Biogen?

We are a global team with a commitment to excellence, and a pioneering spirit. As a mid-sized biotechnology company, we provide the stability and resources of a well-established business while fostering an environment where individual contributions make a significant impact. Our team encompasses some of the most talented and passionate achievers who have unparalleled opportunities for learning, growth, and expanding their skills. Above all, we work together to deliver life-changing medicines, with every role playing a vital part in our mission. Caring Deeply. Achieving Excellence. Changing Lives.

At Biogen, we are committed to building on our culture of inclusion and belonging that reflects the communities where we operate and the patients we serve. We know that diverse backgrounds, cultures, and perspectives make us a stronger and more innovative company, and we are focused on building teams where every employee feels empowered and inspired.  Read on to learn more about our Biogen.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, marital status, race, color, national origin, ancestry, ethnicity, religion, age, veteran status, disability, genetic information or any other basis protected by federal, state or local law. Biogen is an E-Verify Employer in the United States.