Senior Category Manager, Clinical Category Management (Regulatory)

Known for its scientific and operational excellence, Regeneron is a leading science-based biopharmaceutical company that discovers, invents, develops, manufactures, and commercializes medicines for the treatment of serious medical conditions. Regeneron commercializes medicines for eye diseases, high LDL-cholesterol, atopic dermatitis and a rare inflammatory condition and has product candidates in development in other areas of high unmet medical need, including rheumatoid arthritis, asthma, pain, cancer and infectious diseases.

The Senior Manager, Category Management will be responsible to develop & lead the Regional/Global Category Management strategy within the Regulatory function (under Research and Global Development). She/he actively partners and advises Regeneron regional/global commercial teams on supply market dynamics and leading practices which maximize value, minimize risk, and ensure quality & cost effectiveness. The Senior Manager works effectively with ambiguity to anticipate future regional/global business requirements in complex and/or multiple business unit stakeholder categories. She/he develops strategies to meet future demands and to create a competitive supply advantage. The Senior Manager owns the Supplier Management Program including risk, performance, relationship, and supplier development pillars. She/he will ensure that the regional/global strategy is consistently deployed in individual markets by collaborating with sourcing managers.

Responsibilities:

• Leads and/or works with others to solve issues of diverse scope where analysis requires an understanding of current business trends

• Uses sophisticated analytical thought to exercise judgement and identify innovative solutions

• Requires broad understanding of the processes, procedures and systems and is able to use that knowledge to improve efficiency and produce high quality work on problems with cross functional impact

• Responsible for regional/global contractual agreements, works with internal legal department, and drives any changes that are critical to Regeneron's interest

• Develops and executes the Category Management strategy to optimize value from the regional/global supply base

• Oversees & coordinates regional/global requests for proposals, negotiates regional/global contracts, and ensures contract objectives are delivered (savings, SLAs, etc.); ensures compliance with regional/global pricing agreements and internal policies/procedures

• Manages regional/global supplier relationships and ensures performance and accountability are tracked/improved

• Develops and manages program policies and procedures ensuring compliance with Company guidelines, related laws, and governmental guidelines.

• Develops and executes procurement related programs to optimize value

• Informs and influences decision making at the management level

• Manages supplier integration plans of all goods and services for consumption by internal stakeholders, business unit, or function

• Identifies projects to apply sourcing and procurement methodologies at the regional/global level

• Coaches and develops proficiency in procurement technical skills among direct reports (if applicable), peers, junior team members, and sourcing managers
Category Management:

• Leads the regional/global supply market evaluation process by utilizing all available market intelligence, risk, compliance, and financial assessment tools

• Creates the Supplier Management Program for the category including risk, performance, relationship, and supplier development pillars with collective input from the individual market sourcing managers

• Accountable for implementing the global Category Management strategy

• Authority to act as the primary relationship manager to the supplier's regional/global leadership team

• Develops and leads the framework negotiation plan for the regional/global category strategy using a leader mastery level skill set

• Coaches category and sourcing managers to ensure consistent execution of the Supplier Management Program

• Responsible to conduct negotiations with key suppliers at their regional/global leadership level

SCOPE: Regional/Global supply markets

Requirements:

Education

• Bachelor's plus 10 years of relevant, progressive experience within procurement, to preferably include 7 years directly in sourcing within Regulatory in the Pharma/Biotech sector.
Or

• Master's plus 7 years of relevant, progressive experience within procurement, to preferably include 7 years directly in sourcing within regulatory in the Pharma/Biotech sector.

Experience

• Demonstrated experience leading multiple/other categories

• Working knowledge with sourcing contracting tools, ERP's, and eRFx systems preferred. (Oracle, Zycus, GEP, Ariba, Other)

• Ability to leverage standard business applications for communicating, presenting and analyzing (Word, Excel, Powerpoint)

• Previous leadership experience preferred.

• Leader level proficiency using negotiations skills

• Cost modeling knowledge

• Excellent verbal and written skills

• Ability to formulate presentations and business cases

• Ability to build consensus, teamwork, and creativity within a collaborative team with limited supervision

• Program management experience and project management experience required

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