AstraZeneca

Associate Director, Global Cell Therapy Sourcing, Procurement

AstraZeneca

full-time

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Location Type: Hybrid

Location: Santa Monica • California • Maryland • United States

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Salary

💰 $116,000 - $173,000 per year

Job Level

Senior

About the role

  • Develop long-term strategic plans for an entire spend category within AstraZeneca
  • Manage stakeholder and supplier relationships to ensure that category strategies are aligned with business needs
  • Lead project initiatives tied to the category strategies to deliver value
  • Implement sustainability initiatives with vendors
  • Lead complex contractual and commercial negotiations
  • Ensure a data-driven approach to category management and deliver insights, capabilities, and results

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree or equivalent
  • 7+ years of experience in a procurement environment
  • Significant experience of Category Management (preferably in Cell Therapy)
  • Strong project management, change management and people leadership skills
  • Strong understanding of the pharmaceutical industry
  • Comfort with risk and ambiguous situations
  • Proven track record negotiating and managing complex CDMO contracts
  • Technical background (ideally MS&T, CMC, or manufacturing engineering)
  • Strong alliance management skills balancing cost, quality, and relationship dynamics
  • Experience with novel modalities (CAR-T, TCR-T, in-vivo gene editing)
  • Familiarity with Lean/Six Sigma methodologies
  • Deep understanding of China's biotech ecosystem, regulatory environment, and supplier landscape (for China-focused role)
  • Mandarin language proficiency (for China-focused role)
Benefits
  • qualified retirement programs
  • paid time off (i.e., vacation, holiday, and leaves)
  • health, dental, and vision coverage in accordance with the terms of the applicable plans
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Hard Skills & Tools
Category ManagementCDMO contractsLean methodologiesSix Sigma methodologiesMS&TCMCmanufacturing engineeringnovel modalitiesCAR-TTCR-T
Soft Skills
project managementchange managementpeople leadershipstakeholder managementrelationship managementnegotiationdata-driven decision makingcomfort with riskadaptabilityinsight delivery