Global Lead, R&d Sourcing

CSL Behring is a global leader in developing and delivering high-quality medicines that treat people with rare and serious diseases. Our treatments offer promise for people in more than 100 countries living with conditions in the immunology, hematology, cardiovascular and metabolic, respiratory, and transplant therapeutic areas.

To support CSL’s long term strategy to patients and public health, Global Sourcing & Procurement strives to deliver a competitive advantage for CSL via a digitally enabled Category Management system that offers solutions to strategic business questions. This is accomplished by developing our people into a high performing and talented team who operates with strong integrity and ethics across our Strategic Partners and who are motivated and inquisitive about continuous improvement, safety, quality, reliability, and innovation. Global Sourcing and Procurements goal is to become an extension of the Category orders through a business partnering model.

You will be responsible for development and execution of sourcing strategies for all Global R&D categories with an annual value of $690M, includes combinations of spending across the entire CSL business to ensure best highest quality and best possible value for CSL while managing risk and maintaining compliance in sourcing practices.

You will drive the stakeholder engagement, the position holder will lead a team of 4 Procurement professionals to ensure continued Service Reliability, Quality Improvements, Supplier Innovation, and Product Safety across CSL’s R&D organization whilst mitigating risk and delivering year on year savings.

You will be responsible for ensuring Procurement is involved at the earliest stages within the procurement lifecycle and involved in new R&D investment decisions.

This role is expected to interact with senior leaders across the R&D organization and must have the strategic thinking and gravitas to be able to influence. This role will be crucial at providing a robust and comprehensive market assessment for how these external partners can drive innovation, speed, agility, and cost improvements to enable CSL to efficiently scale to our 2030 aspirations.

**Job responsibilities**

**Develop Plans aligned to CSL Global and Procurement Strategy**
- Develop and implement Annual and longer plans for relevant categories based on the Procurement Strategy and other relevant business strategies within CSL to ensure clear goals and action plans for Global Category Management Lead roles resulting in the reduction of the total cost of ownership and risk, while increasing innovation, customer service, compliance, and quality.
- Develop strategies and ensure operational excellence across all categories of R&D including Preclinical, Regulatory, Pharmacovigilance & Safety and Clinical Studies.
- Influence and drive year-over-year cost savings while developing innovative strategies to drive CSL to a best-in-class financially managed R&D organization.
- Independently develop complex strategies for supplier consolidation, segmentation, and best-in-class supplies management processes for key R&D suppliers.
- Influence key stakeholders to drive continuous improvement, reduce waste, and eliminate redundancies across the R&D portfolios
- Be a strategic partner to the R&D Organization
- Interact regularly with the R&D Business Operations Network (BON)
- Support integration activities across the R&D organization and actively work to identify synergies.

**Oversee Effective Category Management and Bid Management**
- Drive value from a complex array of categories by ensuring that all Global Category Lead have effective category management strategies in place; establish and manage Councils for business
- critical commodities aligned with the evolving business requirements to deliver lower cost of ownership, lower risk, higher quality, and better supply performance.
- Lead complex and business-critical negotiations with key suppliers and provide coaching support for sourcing organizations to do the same.
- Ensure CSL Sourcing is committed to conducting business with integrity, per the highest ethical standards, and in compliance with all applicable laws and regulations and anti-bribery requirements and supports diversity and inclusion by promoting utilization of small, disadvantaged, and/or diverse suppliers.

**Supplier Relationship Management (SRM)**
- Establish and oversee SRM processes with critical, global suppliers, including risk management strategies following global policies and supplier segmentation, to enhance relationships and innovations with a focus on the assurance of supply, quality, service, continuous improvement, and innovation while minimizing costs for CSL and develop processes to measure value above and beyond savings in line with Longer-Term Plans and objectives.
- Implement Global procedures to ensure execution of sourcing activities in compliance with CSL Sourcing Policy, Code of Responsible Business Practices,