Associate Director, Agile Sourcing, Commercial

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Bristol Myers Squibb is looking for an experienced sourcing and contracting professional to join its Agile Sourcing team. The Associate Director, Agile Sourcing, Commercial position will be responsible for contributing to and overseeing the delivery of source-to-contract operations across various Commercial categories. Specifically, this role will be focused on supporting the various functional leaders within the Commercial organization. The candidate will need to be comfortable with leading change and taking calculated risk. The Associate Director will lead a team of resources to ensure effective sourcing, negotiating, contracting and purchasing activities to optimize buying power and achieve desired procurement outcomes in support of our company’s goals.

Major Responsibilities and Accountabilities:

Source, on-board, lead, manage and develop a team of professionals in support of source-to-contract operations across multiple categories

• Monitor team performance and identify opportunities for continuous improvement to ensure successful development and implementation of sourcing and contracting strategy.
• Assist direct reports with professional development planning and enable flexibility across Agile Sourcing organization to foster cross-functional proficiencies of resources and procurement categories.
• Assist in the creation of training materials leveraging a deep knowledge of contract terms and conditions, negotiation best practices and BMS Standard Operating Procedures.
• Establish clear performance expectations, provide proactive feedback and be a hands-on manager who provides close leadership and support to their team.

Oversee the end-to-end sourcing and contracting process in support of operations across the assigned categories

• Guide and support team to establish procurement plans and contracting strategies that are developed and executed in support of organizational objectives.
• Lead team to develop and execute sourcing events and proposals with pertinent specifications, terms, and conditions.
• Apply quality assurance protocols to monitor team and individual quality and to ensure only appropriate escalations to global category managers, legal and other subject matters experts.
• Act as final escalation point within Agile Sourcing team to provide guidance and answer questions on substantive sourcing and contracting related issues.
• Maintain awareness of pre-contracting steps, including underlying BMS policies and procedures related to the contracts and the contracted activities within scope.

Partner directly with adjacent stakeholders and deliver on complex, high-risk issues or projects

• Act as a trusted advisor to global category managers and their leadership to ensure procurement strategies can be delivered against the expectations of the business.
• Act as an expert facilitator to fully manage and lead complex sourcing events and contract negotiations in partnership with business stakeholders, global procurement category managers, legal and other participants in the contracting process, including various subject matter experts.
• Coordinate with functions and stakeholders across BMS to ensure timely, compliant, and effective facilitation of contracts.

Performance Management & Continuous Improvement for Source to Contract

• Review team performance and identify trends for continuous improvement to improve operational effectiveness, standardization and process simplification.
• Partner and share best practices and learnings with Agile Sourcing team to ensure business needs are proactively met in an aligned, consistent and collaborative manner across functional areas and in a manner that is complaint with BMS Standard Operating Procedures and protocols.
• Work with procurement and legal to find ways to improve the contracting process, including recommending updates to contract templates, collecting fallback language and developing guidance for negotiations.
• Participate in or lead continuous improvement initiatives within procurement to strengthen our contracting and sourcing outcomes.
• Explore new procurement technologies with a focus on AI/ML opportunities.
• Develop, review, and analyze SLAs, KPIs, and other team performance metrics to support execution of long-term business plans and growth to drive business decisions and report these metrics to the Agile Sourcing team.

Qualifications

Minimum Requirements

• Minimum education of B.S./B.A. Science degree preferred; advanced education (e.g., MBA, MS) preferred.
• Minimum of seven (7) years related experience, including relevant category procurement, sourcing and contracting experience, including but not limited to familiarity with Master Services Agreements.
• Minimum of 3 (three) years prior experience managing a direct team, with ability to provide close leadership and support to large groups of cross-functional, multi-cultural professionals.
• Experience leading, collaborating with and participating on cross-functional and global teams and demonstrated ability to work and influence within a matrix structure.
• Expertise in procurement process, agreement management, financial analysis, market analysis, supplier analysis, supplier diversity, supplier management, technology utilization, strategic planning and integrated supply chain experience.
• Expertise in contract construction, terms and conditions, with strong preference for working knowledge of facilitating, drafting and negotiating buy-side and other in-scope contracts in the pharma/biotech industry.
• Direct people management experience with demonstrated competencies in growth mindset strategies, mentoring and coaching, performance expectations and a strong proven desire to share knowledge and experience to promote the professional development of others.
• Experience with Contract Lifecycle Management technology (e.g., Icertis) to automate and streamline processes.

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