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Scientific Procurement Manager

2 months ago


Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom Avantor Full time

The Opportunity:

Avantor is seeking a dedicated and experienced Scientific Procurement & Inventory Manager to join our leadership team based in Cambridge, UK. In this position, you'll take ownership of management of scientific consumables for 2,500+ scientists and line management responsibilities for a Stock Service Lead, Buyer Service, and their associated reports.

This role will be a full-time permanent position based in a brand-new facility at the customer site - The Discovery Centre, Bio-Medical Campus in Cambridge. Next to an attractive salary, we offer multiple benefits such as annual bonus, pension scheme, private medical and dental care, and an additional day off for your birthday.

The Team

You'll join a team of 7 excellent Managers, who are Subject Matter Experts in their fields and are responsible for the different types of services we offer to our customers.

The team you'll be managing are two Service Leads: Procurement Service Lead and Stores Service Lead. The Procurement Team works on a hybrid basis (majority of the time they work from home) and is responsible for placing orders on behalf of scientists – purchasing consumables, reagents, chemicals. The Stores Team is responsible for inventory of materials purchased by the Procurement Team.

You'll belong to our business department Lab and Product Services, which supports large pharmaceutical companies and laboratories all over the world in Research and Development within the Life Sciences industry.

We're looking for:

  • Education: Bachelor's degree in supply chain or science-related field or equivalent experience working in a laboratory.
  • Experience:
  • Multiple years of experience working as a Scientific Materials Manager in a fast-paced pharmaceutical industry is essential.
  • 3 – 5 years of line management responsibilities: coaching and motivating large teams or service leaders, including experience of second line management.
  • Solid experience in procurement and stock management.
  • Regular communication with various functions of the business (Science, Procurement, Account Managers to name a few) and understanding of their role in the business.
  • Very high-level reporting skills: data and stock management, customer cost centre journaling for cross charge and spend, PO management.
  • Very high-level software, IT literacy and systems skills: this role requires exceptional IT skills including working experience of:
  • Excel, PowerBi, Smart Sheets.
  • Data provision, analysis, management, manipulation, scrutiny.
  • Data journaling – cost centre splits.
  • Procurement platforms (COUPA & SAP).
  • Chartered Institute of Procurement and Supply (CIPS).

Key Responsibilities:

  • Managing scientific materials and buyer service streams on the Cambridge footprint ensuring day-to-day operational effectiveness and delivery.
  • Point of contact for scientific consumable delivery, inventory management and reporting (stock, data and spend management).
  • Ability to effectively engage and communicate with the customer's Governance, Procurement and Scientific functions to ensure positive outcomes regarding consumable management and cost centre spend.
  • Delivering a robust performance management strategy to your team of two Service Leaders, and to the full operational teams of 11 that they manage on-site.

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