Procurement/Category Manager

Job Description

About This Role
The Procurement/Category Manager will manage Biogen’s Market Research, Data and Analytics category spend, as well as develop and implement category strategy. This role will ensure category leadership understands priorities and needs for Biogen’s Market Research, Data and Analytics category. The individual will make recommendations to leadership from a customer standpoint, by aggregating the voice of the internal customer. This role will also identify and contribute to continuous improvement initiatives in partnership with stakeholders. This role reports into the Director, Commercial Category Leader.

Note: This is a hybrid role that requires part-time work on-site
What You’ll Do
Category Management:
• Leads Biogen’s Market Research, Data and Analytics category to develop and implement category strategy.
• Support globalization of processes to drive efficiency, leverage, and savings
• Leads cross-functional teams using spend data analytics, market research and cost modeling to identify and leverage high value opportunities that deliver innovative and sustainable value, operational efficiencies and risk mitigation to the business
• Partners with stakeholders and builds relationships that facilitate the realization of business value and savings 
• Monitors industry trends and leverages best practices to drive continuous improvement in the category
Sourcing:
• Develops and implements sourcing, negotiating and contracting strategies to achieve category goals 
• Develops strategy for catalogs, Guided Buying, and Sourcing playbook development
• Ensures efficiency of events through appropriate use of buying channels, catalogs, and RFx events and champions ongoing continuous improvement.
• Partners with category analysts and procurement operations to execute category strategy/plan to maximum value
Stakeholder and Supplier Management:
• Partners with the business stakeholders at appropriate levels for the respective category and facilitates resolution and communication of all other procurement activities
• Responsible for executing supplier evaluations including understanding capabilities and risk prior to and during the relationship

Qualifications

Who You Are
You are an experienced procurement professional who has successfully managed a category in market research and/or insights and analytics. You enjoy collaborating with diverse subject-matter experts to develop process improvements and evolve category strategies. 
• 5-7 years experience of related procurement experience, including;
o Accomplished in category management and has subject expertise for Market Research, Data and Analytic services
o Experience with negotiation of contract and commercial terms and conditions 
• Strong leadership and collaboration skills with ability to build effective relationships and influence peers and key stakeholders.
• Excellent interpersonal, motivational and leadership skills
• Ability to deal with change and ambiguity effectively
• Strong project management skills with ability to plan tasks, assign resources, manage progress, remove barriers, manage change, resolve conflict, build consensus, and motivate team members across multiple projects concurrently (2years+)
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to tailor messages to the given audience. Can present information in a clear and concise manner
• Ability to prioritize, organize and multitask in a flexible, fast-paced and challenging environment
• Process and cost improvement skills
• C.P.M./CPSM certification desirable

Education: 
• Undergraduate degree or the equivalent combination of education and experience required.

Additional Information

Global Business Services
The Global Business Services (GBS) team is an organization established to transform Biogen’s business processes to set a platform to scale global operations, fuel commercial growth and the innovation pipeline. Further, GBS will provide further value by developing and delivering a suite of business solutions and support services that are valued by internal customers. GBS will deliver services by leveraging a global delivery model, operational transparency and metrics, leveraging global best practices, and a service-oriented process improvement culture. All solutions will be supported by strong business cases and ultimately monitored for the effectiveness and efficiency against benchmarks and service level agreements.

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 will champion building a continuous improvement culture that other parts of the organization will recognize and seek out for business support. We are developing a performance-based culture 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.

Why Biogen?

Our mission to find therapies for neurological and rare diseases is a unique focus within our industry and this shared purpose is what connects us as a team. We work together to overcome obstacles and to follow the science. We are resilient as we strive to make an impact on our patients’ lives and on changing the course of medicine. Together, we pioneer. Together, we thrive.

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 DE&I efforts.

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.