Acheteur Global / Global Category Buyer, Clinical & Medical - H/F Groupe Talents Handicap

Are you ready to lead and innovate in a dynamic, patient-focused biopharmaceutical company?

Ipsen is a growing global specialty-driven biopharmaceutical company focused on innovation and specialty care. We aim to make a sustainable difference by significantly improving patients' health and quality of life, providing effective therapeutic solutions for unmet medical needs through differentiated and innovative medicines in Oncology, Neurosciences, and Rare Diseases.

Why Ipsen?

Patient-Focused: The patient is at the heart of everything we do, and improving their outcomes is the deliverable of every strategy.

Employee Care: We care for our employees, who are the ambassadors making a real difference.

Bold Leadership: We attract and develop bold, agile, entrepreneurial individuals who take full ownership of their decisions.

Growth Opportunities: We offer a wealth of fulfilling challenges and growth opportunities in a fast-moving, game-changing organization.

About the Role:

The Global Category Buyer, Clinical and Medical is responsible for a multi-million clinical trials spend related to Clinical and Medical Services ranging from Phase I to IV trials to support IPSEN assets development across our 3 therapeutic areas.

You will:

• Support implementation of Category Strategies working in close collaboration with the business stakeholders to ultimately deliver value to the business.
• Initiate, lead and execute the procurement strategy for our clinical trials, in alignment with business stakeholders and the Global Strategic Sourcing Director to support business strategies and goals and deliver competitive advantage to the business.
• Contribute to the strategic development of your portfolio and will ensure the robust delivery through clear and measurable benefits.

Main Responsibilities

Business Partnering

• Partner with the business to gain visibility on the Clinical Development Plan and R&D/Medical trials portfolio.
• Analyze spend and budget to identify Procurement opportunities with R&D and Medical business stakeholders
• Work in close collaboration with R&D and Medical business stakeholders to get a clear understanding of future business needs, to determine the appropriate Procurement strategy, source vendors, and to ensure the consistency between the technical specifications, vendor proposals, and contractual documents
• Drive, execute and implement the procurement process for Clinical and Medical initiatives according to the global procurement policy and procurement best practice

Category Management

Support Category Management processes

IMPLEMENT CATEGORY STRATEGIES

• Implement appropriate sourcing strategies across the assigned categories
• Lead outsourcing projects from need definition, cost analysis, negotiation strategy and contract development and provide hands-on procurement execution support
• Manage commercial conditions negotiation to secure contract execution in collaboration with study director / project manager or any other internal stakeholders.
• Support CSR initiatives related to category
• Manage or support contractual or business litigations for the assigned categories

CATEGORY SUPPORT

• With the support of the Global Strategic Sourcing Director, oversee the implementation of Research & Laboratory category plans
• Support some key operational initiatives and manage RFP processes until contract execution to support Business projects
• Monitor MSA execution, compliance and deviation.

Strategic Supplier Relationship Management

Support SRM processes already existing or to be defined

• Build robust partnerships with strategic vendors.
• At Therapeutic area/ asset level, managing key supplier interactions, communication process across the organization
• Collaborate with the Global Strategic Sourcing Director to prepare, run and steer supplier governance meetings
• Develop a culture of supplier performance driven by KPI and metrics

Contribute to the development & management of the Procurement community

• Contribute to drive a culture of teamwork and project management good practices.
• Facilitates & promotes compliance of Category strategies, processes, policies & tools.
• Shares best practices & participate actively in external networking and benchmark for the specific categories of the position

Qualifications:

• Master's degree in business / management / procurement.
• Professional Qualification in Procurement eg CIPS
• Strong experience in Procurement in an international and matrix environment.
• Strong experience within Pharmaceutical industry and Drug Development process
• Strong experience in a CRO especially Business development or Customer Delivery
• Previous experience as CRA
• Experience in negotiation in cross functional teams based in multiple geographies
• Demonstrated successful use of risk management and supplier relation management
• Project Management: Ability to manage projects to ensure successful delivery, to establish clear goals and accountabilities. This includes the ability to develop project plans, prioritize, identify potential issues/risk and develop contingency plans.
• Negotiations: Ability to influence and negotiate optimal agreement.
• Data Analysis/Interpretation: Ability to convert general data and findings into specific suggestions that add value to the business and the team.
• Knowledge of markets & suppliers for specific categories of the position
• Fluency in English

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