Senior R&D Strategic Outsourcing Manager
Exelixis
full-time
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Location Type: Office
Location: Alameda • California • 🇺🇸 United States
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💰 $148,000 - $210,500 per year
Job Level
Senior
Tech Stack
Google Cloud Platform
About the role
- Support and provide thought leadership to category strategy development, optimization and management
- Understand business priorities and challenges by building trusted and collaborative stakeholder relationships
- Identify and recommend sourcing opportunities across the business
- Support or may lead vendor evaluation activities (RFIs and RFPs) and selection process
- Contribute to process development and optimization
- Support or may lead vendor contracting process in collaboration with key internal and external stakeholders
- Negotiate contracts involving larger dollar amounts
- Collaborate with Strategic Supplier Relationship team(s) or business as appropriate to manage the cost, schedule and performance aspects of contracts
- Represent SS&P at internal Team meetings
- Other duties and responsibilities, as assigned
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in related discipline and nine (9) years of related experience; or, Master’s degree in related discipline and seven (7) years of related experience; or, Doctoral degree in related discipline and two (2) years of related experience; or, Equivalent combination of education/training and experience.
- Experience in the pharmaceutical and/or biotechnology industry(ies) required.
- Experience in pharmaceutical and/or biotechnology R&D outsourcing, purchasing, supplier relationship management and/or procurement role(s) required.
- Supervisory/management experience preferred.
- Must have strong, working knowledge of pharmaceutical and/or biotechnology industry R&D outsourcing concepts, methodologies, standards, processes, operations, best practices.
- Must have strong, working knowledge of pharmaceutical and/or biotechnology industry outsourcing financial processes and operations, including but not limited to budgeting, accruals, forecasting, financial analyses, financial reporting, capital expenditures, invoicing, payment terms, purchase requisitions/purchase orders, importation/exportation fees, taxes, currency exchange rates, and inflation.
- Must have working knowledge of pharmaceutical and/or biotechnology industry R&D contracts, including but not limited to legal terms and conditions (e.g., legal decisions vs. business decisions) and contract exhibits (e.g., scopes of work, budgets, payment schedules, quality agreements, data privacy addendums).
- Must have working knowledge of pharmaceutical and/or biotechnology industry regulations as applicable to category (e.g., FDA, MHRA, EMA, ICH GCP) and financial regulations (e.g., Sarbanes-Oxley Act, GAAP).
Benefits
- 401k plan with generous company contributions
- Group medical, dental and vision coverage
- Life and disability insurance
- Flexible spending accounts
- Discretionary annual bonus program
- Sales-based incentive plan for field sales staff
- Opportunity to purchase company stock
- Long-term incentives
- 15 accrued vacation days in first year
- 17 paid holidays including company-wide winter shutdown in December
- Up to 10 sick days throughout the calendar year
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard skills
vendor evaluationcontract negotiationfinancial analysisbudgetingforecastingfinancial reportingsupplier relationship managementprocurementR&D outsourcingprocess optimization
Soft skills
stakeholder relationship buildingcollaborationthought leadershipmanagementcommunication