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Vendor Manager

Employer
AbbVie
Location
Lake County, Illinois
Start date
Mar 1, 2023

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Job Details

Purpose:

Individual contributor with responsibility for pro-actively evaluating, negotiating with, measuring and managing vendors. Providing services and deliverables to a business function with sole responsibility for up to medium scale vendor (single or few countries, value generally less than $10mm annually, single or few TA/FAs utilizing) relationships and transactions with moderate complexity. Leads negotiations and drive transactions to completion on time and on budget. Active manager and primary owner of supplier categories and supplier relationships, including sourcing responsibility.

Responsibilities:

  • Individual contributor with responsibility for pro-actively evaluating, negotiating with, measuring and managing vendors. Providing services and deliverables to a business function with sole responsibility for up to medium scale vendor (single or few countries, value generally less than $10mm annually, single or few TA/FAs utilizing) relationships and transactions with moderate complexity. Leads negotiations and drive transactions to completion on time and on budget. Active manager and primary
  •  Additional responsibility for negotiation and execution of one-off agreements (and statements of work) in assigned categories as requested by management. For Vendor Managers that support clinical trial related services, partners with Outsourcing Project Managers in a support and consulting capacity in relation to PM managed one-off agreements.
  • Drives transactions to successful completion, and accountable for successfully interacting with vendor through relationship lifecycle.
  • Responsible for providing initial document drafting and originating redlines to Legal following return of documents from counterparties.
  • Reviews and analyzes KPIs/metrics, holding vendors accountable to established performance criteria for vendor activities. Drives the investigation of vendor performance issues and develops solutions to ensure overall performance and compliance. Communicates findings and recommendations to larger organization.
  • Assists in establishing and is responsible for maintaining consistent practices and policies related to vendor activities to ensure compliance with Corporate Purchasing, Finance, OEC and other applicable policies.
  • Across supported service categories, responsible for pro-actively collaborating with TAs/FAs and related TLC POCs and Outsourcing Project Managers. Leverages these efforts to strategically build a preferred supplier network in such categories.
  • Provides effective communication to both internal and external partners. Address business issues for key services providers in conjunction with TLC POCs and Outsourcing Project Managers and related departments
  • Implements the comprehensive plan for savings goals across all contracting functions.
  • Liaise with Corporate Purchasing, TAs/FAs and fellow delegated purchasing functions to ensure the business functions’ needs are met

Qualifications:

  • Bachelor’s degree required. Advanced degree is preferred
  • 5-8 years combined experience in legal, strategy or financial analysis required. Prefer Pharmaceutical, Licensing, CRO or Legal experience.
  • Understanding of outsourcing processes, corporate purchasing standards, legal, OEC, and finance policies and procedures. Knowledge of AbbVie organization, pipeline, processes, and culture beneficial
  • Ability to successfully operate in a global environment without direct reporting responsibility/authority. Emerging leadership skills with a very broad business orientation. Responsible to teams but with no direct reporting responsibility/authority for those functional areas
  • Proven project management skills. Developing skills in managing broad scope projects involving cross-functional teamwork.
  • Demonstrated ability to think and plan strategically. Position requires strong analytical skills to understand scientific and financial data, recognize key issues and establish priorities.
  • Demonstrated negotiation skills. Excellent communication skills both (written and verbal). Experience in preparing/presenting key information to management.
  • Ability to build and maintain effective internal and external partnerships. Relationship management and influencing skills required. High degree of customer focus.
  • Requires problem solving abilities at both strategic and operational levels. To identify and resolve issues related to a contract, or management of the supplier to the contract or management of performance issues. This involves both internal cross-functional problem solving as well as issue resolution between functional areas and external suppliers.


 

AbbVie is an equal opportunity employer including disability/vets. It is AbbVie’s policy to employ qualified persons of the greatest ability without discrimination against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex (including pregnancy), physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, marital status, status as a disabled veteran, recently separated veteran, Armed Forces service medal veteran or active duty wartime or campaign badge veteran or a person’s relationship or association with a protected veteran, including spouses and other family members, or any other protected group status. We will take affirmative action to employ and advance in employment qualified minorities, women, individuals with a disability, disabled veterans, recently separated veterans, Armed Forces service medal veterans or active-duty wartime or campaign badge veterans. The Affirmative Action Plan is available for viewing in the Human Resources office during regular business hours.

AbbVie is an equal opportunity employer including disability/vets. It is AbbVie’s policy to employ qualified persons of the greatest ability without discrimination against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex (including pregnancy), physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, marital status, status as a disabled veteran, recently separated veteran, Armed Forces service medal veteran or active duty wartime or campaign badge veteran or a person’s relationship or association with a protected veteran, including spouses and other family members, or any other protected group status. We will take affirmative action to employ and advance in employment qualified minorities, women, individuals with a disability, disabled veterans, recently separated veterans, Armed Forces service medal veterans or active-duty wartime or campaign badge veterans. The Affirmative Action Plan is available for viewing in the Human Resources office during regular business hours.


Company

AbbVie’s mission is to discover and deliver innovative medicines 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: immunology, oncology, neuroscience, eye care, virology, women’s health and gastroenterology, in addition to products and services across its Allergan Aesthetics portfolio. For more information about AbbVie, please visit us at www.abbvie.com. Follow @abbvie on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, and YouTube.

Stock Symbol: ABBV

Stock Exchange: NYSE

Company info
Website
Phone
1-800-255-5162
Location
1 North Waukegan Road
North Chicago
Illinois
60064
US

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