Large Molecule Operations Sourcing Associate

Vor 3 Tagen


Luzern, Schweiz Merck Sharp & Dohme Vollzeit

Our Support Functions deliver services and make recommendations about ways to enhance our workplace and the culture of our organization. Our Support Functions include HR, Finance, Information Technology, Legal, Procurement, Administration, Facilities and Security.

The Large Molecule Operations Sourcing Associate Director in Global Operations Sourcing Procurement supports the sourcing and contracting of large molecules from commercialization through post NDA launch.

Developing and maintaining strong relationships with key leaders and stakeholders, namely Commercialization, External Manufacturing, Quality, Regulatory, Supply Chain, Finance, Legal, Shared Business Services, and other corporate functions.

**Primary activities include, but are not limited to**:
Leadership
- Delivers exemplary results in the right way.
- Partners with stakeholders outside of Procurement to ensure alignment.

Category scope
- Direct responsibility for supplier relationships around the world and is worldwide point of contact for global relationships with numerous key suppliers, which are complex to manage.

Sourcing Management
- Utilize, drive sourcing management as a structured process including obtaining sponsorship creating and leading cross-functional teams.
- Upon receiving approval for sourcing strategies, oversee/execute sourcing levers (including but not limited to RFx, negotiations, contracting activities) to ensure appropriate sourcing rigor.

Strategy Development/Implementation
- Create breakthrough strategies which deliver quick wins and generate legitimate business value.
- Drive innovation.

Change Management
- Adopt high quality change practices with customers and stakeholders, building and implementing an organization which is sustainable.
- Be a leader by example and practice, embodying our Company's Leadership Standards.

Continuous Improvement
- Ensure that every supplier relationship is established with intent of future continuous improvement, and to lead and manage the measurement and review process to ensure delivery of expectations.

Stakeholder Management
- Work in a way that positively engages the support of business colleagues using problem solving, transparency, and proactive communication skills.
- Build sourcing management pipeline, ensuring stakeholder alignment and compliance to supply management processes.

Diversity
- Actively support diversity, both within our Company as well as expanding relationships and spend with Diverse Suppliers.

Business requirements/cost management focus
- Must have keen insight and understanding of business requirements on a 1/3/5-year horizon, and partners GP and business peers to drive cost reductions.
- Implement Supplier Value Management with the key suppliers in this category to foster innovation, manage supplier performance, establish appropriate governance model, and ensure continuous improvement.

**Qualifications and Experience**:
**Education Minimum Requirement**:

- Required: Undergraduate degree required.
- Technical or scientific degrees such as chemical engineering, chemistry, biology required.
- Business administration as an additional degree preferred.

**Required Experience and Skills**:

- Minimum of five years’ experience in the Pharma Industry,
- Minimum three years of in Direct GMP Materials Procurement supporting External Manufacturing.

**Preferred Experience and Skills**:

- Understanding the GMP manufacturing environment, various technologies, costing, supply chain and operational management.
- Negotiations, stakeholder management, financial acumen.
- Direct experience in a GMP manufacturing environment and deep understanding of technology complexity versus cost.

Our Sourcing team partner with the business to ensure efficient acquisition of goods and services that enables the

commercialization of our medicines, vaccines and Animal Health products. We collaborate internationally and are grouped

into center-led categories and regional operating teams.

**THE COMPANY**

Our company has had a presence in Switzerland since 1963. With a regional office and manufacturing/packaging facility, Lucerne is considered the center of operations. Approximately 1,000 people work collaboratively at the four Lucerne locations (Tribschenstrasse, Citybay, Schachen and Kriens). A fifth location has been recently established in Zurich, aimed at accelerating the development and commercialization of many of our company’s medicines and vaccines, which supports our mission to save and improve lives around the world. The new location has a target date of 2021 for operational readiness. We are proud to be certified as a “Top Employer Switzerland” and “Top Employer Europe” showing the company’s commitment to our employees and the community around us.

Our Tribschenstrasse office, located in the city of Luzern has a rich diversity of employees at this location including Global

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