Company Description
AbbVie's mission is to discover and deliver innovative medicines and solutions that solve serious health issues today and address the medical challenges of tomorrow. We strive to have a remarkable impact on people's lives across several key therapeutic areas – immunology, oncology, neuroscience, and eye care – and products and services in our Allergan Aesthetics portfolio. For more information about AbbVie, please visit us at www.abbvie.com. Follow @abbvie on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube and LinkedIn.
Job Description
Individual contributor with responsibility for pro-actively evaluating, negotiating with, measuring and managing vendors. Providing services and deliverables to a business function with sole responsibility for up to medium scale vendor (single or few countries, value generally less than $10mm annually, single or few TA/FAs utilizing) relationships and transactions with moderate complexity. Leads negotiations and drives transactions to completion on time and on budget. Active manager and primary owner of supplier categories and supplier relationships, including sourcing responsibility.
Responsibilities
- Pro-actively evaluate, negotiate with, measure and manage vendors.
- Negotiate and execute one-off agreements (and statements of work) in assigned categories as requested by management.
- Drive transactions to successful completion, accountable for successfully interacting with vendors through the relationship lifecycle.
- Provide initial document drafting and originating redlines to Legal following return of documents from counterparties.
- Review and analyze KPIs/metrics, holding vendors accountable to established performance criteria.
- Assist in establishing and maintain consistent practices and policies related to vendor activities.
- Collaborate with TAs/FAs and related TLC POCs and Outsourcing Project Managers.
- Provide effective communication to both internal and external partners.
- Implement the comprehensive plan for savings goals across all contracting functions.
- Liaise with Corporate Purchasing, TAs/FAs and fellow delegated purchasing functions.
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree required; advanced degree preferred.
- 5-8 years combined experience in legal, strategy or financial analysis required; prefer Pharmaceutical, Licensing, CRO or Legal experience.
- Understanding of outsourcing processes, corporate purchasing standards, legal, OEC, and finance policies and procedures.
- Ability to operate in a global environment without direct reporting responsibility/authority.
- Proven project management skills.
- Strong analytical skills to understand scientific and financial data.
- Demonstrated negotiation skills and excellent communication skills.
- Ability to build and maintain effective internal and external partnerships.
- Requires problem-solving abilities at both strategic and operational levels.
Additional Information
Applicable only to applicants applying to a position in any location with pay disclosure requirements under state or local law:
- The compensation range described below is the range of possible base pay compensation that the Company believes in good faith it will pay for this role at the time of this posting.
- We offer a comprehensive package of benefits including paid time off (vacation, holidays, sick), medical/dental/vision insurance and 401(k) to eligible employees.
- This job is eligible to participate in our short-term and long-term incentive programs.
AbbVie is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to operating with integrity, driving innovation, transforming lives, serving our community and embracing diversity and inclusion.
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