Manager, Site Procurement Lead

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, Site Procurement Lead is responsible for managing the entire procurement process, from strategic sourcing to contracting, ensuring detailed execution aligned with category strategic vision for the sterile filling Waco, TX manufacturing site. This role focuses on overseeing supplier selection and management, maintaining compliance with procurement policies, and executing tactical processes for supplier diversity and sustainability.

Major Responsibilities:

• Manage activities from strategic sourcing to contracting, ensuring effective and detailed execution, including alignment with defined category strategic vision.

• Maintain compliance with procurement policy and fulfills business requirements of supplier diversity and sustainability, executing tactical processes to create value.

• Drive supplier management and ensures alignment to SRM strategy as determined by Procurement Lead and Category Managers, fostering a collaborative and innovative approach to supplier interactions.

• Implement risk mitigation plans developed in collaboration with Category Managers, providing tactical input on supplier performance and relaying the identification of procurement risks to safeguard the organization's interest and maintain operational resilience.

• Maintain excellence in all contract execution activities including source to contract and requisition to pay, owning the implementation of strategies to identify inefficiencies in process design and execution.

• Enable savings and assurance of supply, manage savings leakage across downstream procurement processes

• Administer continuous improvement projects initiated by the PSC team, embracing and furthering a spirit of adaptability and innovation in procurement operations.

• Lead and nurture a team of Specialists, setting ambitious performance targets, providing tailored coaching, and evaluating team performance.

• Partner with PSC leaders and business partners to define skillsets, workforce requirements, capability needs, and long-term organizational staffing goals.

Qualifications

• Specific and tactical expertise in implementing procurement processes, including source-to-contract planning and cost assessment, ensuring strategic and informed procurement decisions.

• Strong experience in the respective category area, with familiarity tailoring processes to meet category needs.

• Ability to manage the bidding and negotiation processes, with adept ability to implement complex long-term projects with a focus on creating effective supplier relationships.

• Strong capacity and experience managing collaborative supplier relationships, aligning procurement activities with business needs.

• Innovative problem-solving skills combined with a solution-oriented mindset, enabling creative approaches and influential communication at all organizational levels.

• High cross-functional collaboration abilities and teamwork skills, effectively navigating and coordinating diverse team dynamics.

• Strong soft skills and emotional intelligence, facilitating empathetic interactions, effective communication, and robust relationship-building.

• Impactful executive functioning abilities and autonomous work ethic, maintaining efficient performance in challenging situations and building consensus in decision-making.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Business Administration, Supply Chain Mgmt or related field.

• Minimum of 7 years of experience in procurement, supply chain, or related business or operations function.

• Previous experience managing teams and comprehensive understanding of procurement operations.

• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and leadership skills.

• Knowledge of the pharmaceutical industry is preferred.

Key Stakeholders:

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

Additional Information

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• 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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Salary: $109,500