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Senior Manager of Indirect Procurement

2 months ago


Bath, Bath and North East Somerset, United Kingdom IQVIA Full time
Job Overview

Key Responsibilities

As a Director of Procurement at IQVIA, you will be responsible for leading all aspects of purchasing initiatives, either regionally or globally, and across different business functions to realize benefits. You will ensure adherence to the company's corporate purchasing policy, which encourages vendor competition.

Essential Functions

  • Manage and Lead a team of procurement professionals, delegating tasks commensurate with skill level, and evaluating workload and quality through regular review.
  • Develop and Implement corporate or departmental quality or process improvement initiatives.
  • Contribute to Discussions on the implementation of purchasing strategy on a regional basis and implement objectives as appropriate. Ensure staff have a consistent understanding and positive impression of business strategy for regional and global objectives.
  • Lead Strategic Initiatives and develop implementation plans.
  • Provide Leadership and Management of purchasing projects from conception through deployment, establishing project budgets, resource plans, milestones, tracking metrics, and success measures.
  • Identify and Agree with stakeholders the project team membership, process steps, and timetable, and ensure stakeholder interests are adequately represented on the team.
  • Oversee Preparation and Presentation of purchasing recommendations to management and stakeholders.
  • Manage Benchmarking and validate opportunities by Requests for Information, and prepare and issue competitive Requests for Proposals.
  • Manage and Build 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, and to identify budget reduction opportunities and to ensure global procurement programs enable stakeholders to achieve their business plans.
  • Work with Stakeholders to manage vendor relationships using agreed scorecard methodology to drive continuous improvement (price, service levels, new ideas, etc.).
  • Oversee the Creation of purchasing plans, priorities, change programs, and agree and implement vendor management programs.
Global Professional Services Competency & Experience RequirementsBusiness Experience
  • 5+ Years Experience of operating and influencing at a senior management level, developed strong working relationships with functional heads and direct reports across areas such as Finance, IT, Legal, HR, Operations, and Marketing.
Procurement / Functional Experience
  • 10+ Years Operating in the Indirect Procurement environment, 7+ years in the professional services space purchasing, consultancy services (Finance, HR, Operations, Marketing), experience and knowledge of the Market Research category.
  • Would Consider Candidates from Pharma & Life sciences with customer-facing functional experience and key competencies below.
Competencies
  • Managing Change - Advanced
  • Listening & Communication - Advanced
  • Creativity & Innovation - Good
  • Relationship Building - Advanced
  • Critical Thinking - Good
  • Business Acumen - Good
  • Negotiation - Good
  • Project Management - Good
  • Analytical, Diagnostic Opportunity Assessment - Good
Qualifications
  • Bachelor's Degree Required
  • Knowledge of Purchasing Methodologies, principles, theories, processes, and practices.
  • Knowledge of MS Office Applications.
  • Strong Analytical and Numeracy Skills.
  • Strong Problem-Solving Skills.
  • Effective Verbal and Written Communication Skills.
  • Ability to Influence and Motivate Others.
  • Ability to Manage Conflicting Priorities.
  • Ability to Establish and Maintain Effective Working Relationships with co-workers, managers, and clients.