Global Procurement Manager
Posted 2 weeks ago by AstraZeneca
£63 Per hour
Undetermined
Hybrid
Macclesfield, England, United Kingdom
Summary: The Global Procurement Manager (Biologics Drug Substance) role at AstraZeneca is a temporary position based in Macclesfield, focusing on sourcing and procurement for Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients and Formulation & Packaging categories. The role involves leading commercial procurement activities, developing long-term strategies, and ensuring alignment with business needs while fostering relationships with suppliers and internal stakeholders. The position requires a minimum of 7 years of procurement experience in the pharmaceutical sector and offers a hybrid working arrangement.
Key Responsibilities:
- Lead sourcing & procurement activities for API and F&P categories.
- Develop long-term strategies for brands and technologies.
- Support strategic relationship management with internal partners and suppliers.
- Execute Master Supply Agreements and individual product contracts.
- Support risk assessment processes for suppliers.
- Deliver on AZ Procurement Value Proposition.
- Foster relationships with vendors to achieve competitive value and quality.
- Support AZ’s sustainability agenda with suppliers.
Key Skills:
- Minimum 7 years in Procurement, ideally in the Pharmaceutical space.
- Experience in Active Pharmaceutical Ingredient and Formulation & Packaging.
- Strong supplier selection and negotiation skills.
- Stakeholder management and influencing abilities.
- Comfort with risk and ambiguity.
- Commercial procurement experience with large, complex deals.
- Analytical skills and experience with Procure-to-pay systems.
- Project management and collaboration skills.
- Degree level or equivalent qualifications.
Salary (Rate): £62.50/hr
City: Macclesfield
Country: United Kingdom
Working Arrangements: hybrid
IR35 Status: undetermined
Seniority Level: undetermined
Industry: Other
Role: Global Procurement Manager (Biologics Drug Substance)
Role Type: Temporary – Until End of 2025 + Possible Extension
Location: Macclesfield – 3 days on-site / 2 working remote
Your New Role
Reporting to the Associate Director of External Manufacturing Procurement Business Operations, the Global Procurement Manager (GPM) role will lead sourcing & procurement activities for Active Pharmaceutical Ingredient (API), and Formulation & Packaging (F&P) categories of external manufacturing, for both small molecule and biologics businesses. Will lead commercial procurement activities with assigned Suppliers, and for assigned Brands within a therapy area in support of Therapy Area Directors within the team. In conjunction with other team members, develops long term strategies on two dimensions: for brands, working with Therapy Leads to drive end-to-end supply chain value, as well as full product lifecycle value; for technologies, developing API and F&P category strategies. Ultimately ensuring that the external supply base can support these strategies well into the future.
Key Accountabilities:
- Contributing to implementation of Therapy Area and Category plans to ensure that the underpinning process improvement and procurement activities deliver the expected business value in accordance with the strategic plans.
- Supporting strategic relationship management (internal business partner and supplier) - to ensure that Category Strategies are highly aligned to current and future Business needs and that the supply base is capable of supporting these strategies.
- Working alongside our Global Procurement Services (central procurement services organization) in advising on and driving procurement strategies to make decisions necessary to purchase products and services in congruence with organisational objectives.
- Executing Master Supply Agreements, and/or individual product contracts for assigned Suppliers or Brands.
- Supporting risk assessment processes for suppliers.
- Delivering on AZ Procurement Value Proposition
- Developing excellent relationships & influence with internal stakeholders
- Foster trusted relationships with vendors to achieve competitive value and quality of services.
- Support AZ’s industry-leading Sustainability agenda with suppliers.
Required Skills & Knowledge
- Minimum 7 years in Procurement ideally in Pharmaceutical space – in one or more of the following areas Active Pharmaceutical Ingredient (API) / Bio drug substances / Formulation & Packaging (F&P), clinical manufacturing.
- Experience of sourcing contract manufacturing services advantageous
- Strong experience in Supplier selection & strong negotiation strategy
- Stakeholder Management – Stakeholder Negotiation / advisory / Influencing.
- Comfort with risk and ambiguous situations.
- Ability to work in fast paced moving environment managing multiple scenarios.
- Commercial, Procurement experience, negotiating large, complex deals.
- Experience of working on global basis.
- Analytical and Systems acumen, working with Procure-to-pay systems, SAP, Microsoft Suite
- Sound understanding of Safety, Health and Environment
- Project management, change management and strong collaboration skills.
- Excellent collaborator
- Degree level or equivalent qualifications
Desirable Skills & Knowledge
- Excellent working knowledge of the pharmaceutical industry
- Sustainability platform requirements of CDMOs
- Knowledge of the CDMO supply base across our technology areas
- Demonstrated capability of leading and developing commercial partnerships of significant scale
WHY ASTRAZENECA?
It's an exciting time to join AstraZeneca, a global business that's rapidly growing - there's a lot happening and even more to come. And we are a valued part of this journey. Respected partners across the business, we provide the platform that's going to power us to achieve more. So, what's next? Are you ready to bring new insights and fresh thinking to the table? Brilliant! We have one seat available, and we hope it's yours. Please apply with a copy of your CV.