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Director of Procurement
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As a key member of the IQVIA team, you will be responsible for leading all aspects of purchasing initiatives, both regionally and globally, across various business functions to drive benefits and ensure adherence to the company's corporate purchasing policy. Your expertise will be crucial in fostering vendor competition and driving business growth.
Key Responsibilities- Effectively manage team resources, delegate tasks, and evaluate workload and quality through regular review.
- Lead corporate or departmental quality or process improvement initiatives, contributing to discussions on the implementation of purchasing strategy and ensuring staff have a consistent understanding of business objectives.
- Develop and implement strategic initiatives, establish project budgets, resource plans, milestones, tracking metrics, and success measures.
- Manage purchasing projects from conception through deployment, overseeing preparation and presentation of purchasing recommendations to management and stakeholders.
- Build and maintain relationships with internal stakeholders and function or business unit senior management to align priorities, ensure global procurement policies, processes, and requirements are understood and complied with.
- Oversee the creation of purchasing plans, priorities, change programs, and agree and implement vendor management programs.
- 5+ years of experience operating and influencing at a senior management level, with strong working relationships with functional heads and direct reports.
- 10+ years of experience in indirect procurement, with 7+ years in the professional services space purchasing consultancy services, finance, HR, operations, marketing, and experience and knowledge of the market research category.
- Advanced managing change, listening and communication, relationship building, and critical thinking skills.
- Good creativity and innovation, business acumen, negotiation, risk management, and analytical, diagnostic opportunity assessment skills.
- Bachelor's degree required.
- Knowledge of purchasing methodologies, principles, theories, processes, and practices.
- Strong analytical and numeracy skills, effective verbal and written communication skills, ability to influence and motivate others, and ability to manage conflicting priorities.
IQVIA is a leading global provider of advanced analytics, technology solutions, and clinical research services to the life sciences industry. We believe in pushing the boundaries of human science and data science to make the biggest impact possible – to help our customers create a healthier world. Learn more about our company culture and values.
