Senior Procurement Manager - Research & Development

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The Position

Senior Procurement Manager - Research & Development

Roche India – Roche Services & solutions

Hyderabad

A healthier future. It’s what drives us to innovate. To continuously advance science and ensure everyone has access to the healthcare they need today and for generations to come. Creating a world where we all have more time with the people we love.

That’s what makes us Roche.

Roche has defined an exciting 10-year ambition plan, requiring us to adapt and transform to our evolving ecosystem and challenges ahead of us. We have redesigned our Global Procurement (GP) organization to ensure we can succeed in this new environment and deliver on our mission for patients by building new capabilities and creating a more agile organization. Our goal is to improve our ability to deliver on our vision to “accelerate Roche’s goal to bring innovative solutions to patients quickly and efficiently through business and supplier partnerships.” If you are excited about driving this change and catalyzing the future in the R&D procurement capability, the Sr. Procurement Manager - R&D role is for you.

What is the Delivery capability?

The Delivery capability covers the core procurement activities from category management, strategic and operational sourcing, supplier management, content strategy definition, and execution. The Delivery capability comprises many communities grouping categories of the same value chain or having commonality. The communities are key enablers of strong category expertise while allowing flexibility in the procurement delivery response to the evolving needs of our customers.

This position is part of the Indirect Procurement Operations team reporting into the Procurement Delivery Operations Lead - Research & Development.

Are you wondering what is in it for you?

Are you interested in further developing and leveraging your market knowledge, business partnering, and influencing skills? Here is why we think the Sr. Procurement Manager - R&D role is a fantastic job to consider!

As a Senior Procurement Manager - Research & Development, you will work in a dynamic global environment where you bring analytical thinking, planning, execution, and focus to the procurement sourcing and delivery capability area. Thanks to your strong problem solving and core procurement skills, you will effectively collaborate with internal procurement (customer relationship management, contracting, solutions, etc.) and business stakeholders to translate business needs into sourcing, spend management activities, and content enhancement. Based on your R&D procurement and commodity expertise linked to clinical trials management and pre-clinical research, you ensure the effective and efficient delivery of core procurement services and continuous improvement of automation and content availability. 

You will work closely with team members to support customer demand, improve the customer buying experience, deliver on day-to-day operational activities, and provide capacity and expertise to provide productivity and other customer-oriented projects/solutions.

Your Key Responsibilities Include:

Your successful performance and contribution depend on the full embodiment and demonstration of core mindsets and behaviors, including an entrepreneurial spirit, enterprise thinking, inclusive collaboration, and desire for continuous learning that underpin our culture and ways of working.

As a Senior Procurement Manager - Research & Development, you will play a variety of roles according to your experience, knowledge, and the general business/team requirements, such as:

• Sourcing and category subject matter specialist conducting internal analysis to develop and implement strategies and tactical plans for Roche to source and negotiate for third-party goods and services that satisfy stakeholder requirements.
• Procurement practitioner delivering and executing sourcing strategies by leveraging spend, category know-how, robust sourcing, negotiation, contracting, supplier management, and project management skills to achieve objectives and key results.
• Content and automation advocate translating sourcing outcomes and opportunities into content and automated buying channels that improve business adoption, satisfaction, and overall efficiency.
• Manage day to day operations of the R&D team, organizing and overseeing workload, team statistics, information and trainings
• Lead the local R&D team meetings, virtual and on-site
• 1 on 1 check-ins with the local R&D team
• Act as the local R&D team’s main point of contact for sourcing and contracting queries, supporting the team's training and knowledge sharing (clarifying sourcing questions, ensuring quality of contracts and due diligence, organizing meetings with Category Managers when needed and organizing internal training for the team, supporting the team spirit and motivation
• Collaborate cross functionally with other Procurement teams to share knowledge and improve Stakeholder support
• Understand processes and support requests across multiple R&D categories (Clinical Trial management, Clinical Biomarkers, and Pre-clinical Research Services)
• Follow global sourcing and contracting strategies to ensure alignment across regions
• Manage team recruitments, onboarding and training of new starters.
• Participate in monthly Regional R&D Meetings, supporting initiatives and proposing ideas to streamline work and processes
• Ensure correct usage of myBuy Sourcing & Contracting platform by local R&D team, and myBuy Navigator by Stakeholders, providing support as needed

You will work within the broader team and GP networks and squads to determine the various roles needed to deliver project and foundational work.

You bring the following capabilities, mindset, and behaviors:

Skills

You hold a university degree, with a Life Science degree preferable. You also have demonstrable extensive experience in sourcing, simple contracting, people management, operational efficiency projects, or relevant commodity experience.

In Addition, You Have:

• The ability to explain general capability area information to others or collect/translate moderate complexity stakeholder requirements in straightforward situations
• Knowledgeable in procurement systems and operational processes, such as contracting, e-Sourcing, and spot buying is desired
• Knowledge in the Clinical Development and/or Clinical Technologies area (e.g. Clinical Research Organisations, Imaging, eCOA, etc.)
• Knowledge in the pre-clinical area (e.g. in vitro research, animal breeding, PK/PD)
• Experience supporting Life Science research scientists (eg. biologist, biochemist)
• Proven capability in negotiating project budgets and contracts 
• Demonstrated project management skills
• Proven leadership skills with ability to motivate and influence
• Business level fluency in English

Mindset & Behaviors

• You strive to act as an enterprise thinker and leverage knowledge and expertise to create solutions for business customers by proactively fostering collaboration, including across the procurement network.
• You are action-oriented and can make decisions and influence others to do the same; you repurpose work and ideas in favor of starting from scratch. 
• You demonstrate curiosity, active listening, and a willingness to experiment and test new ideas when appropriate, focusing on continuous learning and improvement.
• You work with colleagues across procurement, business, and the broader Roche organization to broaden knowledge and expertise, better understand customer needs, and connect the dots.
• You are open-minded and inclusive, generously sharing ideas and knowledge while being receptive to ideas and feedback from others.

Who We Are

A healthier future drives us to innovate. Together, more than 100’000 employees across the globe are dedicated to advance science, ensuring everyone has access to healthcare today and for generations to come. Our efforts result in more than 26 million people treated with our medicines and over 30 billion tests conducted using our Diagnostics products. We empower each other to explore new possibilities, foster creativity, and keep our ambitions high, so we can deliver life-changing healthcare solutions that make a global impact.

Let’s build a healthier future, together.

Roche is an Equal Opportunity Employer.