About This Role
You are responsible for building and maintaining positive relationships with vendors, suppliers, and strategic partners to ensure performance is aligned with company needs.
This includes ensuring Biogen has continuous supply of commercialized products to our patients and implementation of innovation into pipeline products.
You play an important role in optimizing expenses and streamlining supply chain costs, while strengthening our core capabilities to supply to market.
Key Responsibilities
* Lead Supplier Relationship Management Team linking Procurement, Finance, Quality, and other internal Biogen partners to provide ONE voice of Biogen to external partners.
* Coordinating, facilitating, and participating in quarterly meetings with strategic partners where supplier performance is reviewed, demand projections shared, and pathway forward is agreed.
* Driving innovation to integrate changes between programs, suppliers, and customers.
* Build rapport with vendors/suppliers and role model teamwork with the procurement mangers to improve value from contracts and relationships.
* Establish and maintain collaborative stakeholder relationships across the organization and evaluating performance throughout all contract phases.
Supplier Performance Tracking and drive for continuous Improvement
* Establish and agree upon supplier performance KPIs (Delivery lead times, quality attributes, escalation pathways)
* Review existing performance against delivery plans and quality agreements.
* Financial accountability to improved collaboration and pricing
Geographic impacts, tier 1,2,3 supply points and risk analysis.
* Understand political / geographical risks linked to supplier manufacturing sites and tiers of supplier network.
* Cross reference identified risks across Biogen supplier network for compounding risk nodes.
* Proactively identify alternatives to limit risk to Biogen supply either by proposed dual sourcing approaches or inventory management techniques.
Annual Supplier Supply/Risk assessment
* Develop and management supplier relationship strategy and engagement model in alignment with PO&T/Biogen business objectives.
* Review KPIs against targets, assess corrective actions/plans and assign target dates for actions to be complete.
* Identify supply constraints and propose alternatives to mitigate risks (short term/long term)
Requirements
* Bachelor's degree in business, Engineering, MBA, Management, Project Management, Finance, Education, Science, Supply Chain Management, Performance business is required, MBA preferred.
* Minimum 7 years of related experience required, including supplier relationship management experience in a GMP environment.
* Provide strong and visible leadership – strong ability to lead using indirect management and influence.
* Utilize strategic thinking to shape the plan and gain buy-in from the sourcing and procurement organization and other stakeholder functions.
* Enlist strong process and project management skills/ability to manage change.
* Employ strong people skills — an ability to envision, energize, and enable both the sourcing and procurement organization and other functions, and, where necessary, lead performance management decisions.
* Have an ability to work multifunctionally across organization boundaries and lead the shift from an inside-out culture to an outside-in, customer-centric organization.
* The ability to uphold the goals and culture of the organization.
* The ability to understand the values of team members, and lead and support them appropriately.