About This Role
The Associate Director, IT Sourcing Category Lead is responsible for long term planning, strategy development, performance management, savings and continuous improvement of Biogen’s IT Category, $270M in spend. This leader will ensure Category leadership understands priorities and needs for category under their responsibility.  This individual will make recommendations to leadership from a customer standpoint, by aggregating the voice of the internal customer.  The Associate Director will ensure resourcing and bandwidth to meet the business needs. Finally, this leader will identify and lead CI initiatives in partnership with stakeholders.  This role reports to the Senior Director, Global Business Services Categories and has 5-6 direct reports. 

*This role may be based in Cambridge, MA or RTP, North Carolina locations*

What You'll Do

Category Management:
•    Responsible to lead Biogen’s IT category (and sub category leaders as applicable) to develop and implement category and sub category strategies for:
          -IT Hardware
          -IT Services
          -IT Software and Support    
          -Telecommunications
•    Support globalization of processes to drive efficiency, leverage, and savings
•    Leads cross-functional teams using spend data analytics, market research and cost modeling to identify and leverage high value opportunities that deliver innovative and sustainable value, operational efficiencies and risk mitigation to the business
•    Partners with critical stakeholders and builds relationships that facilitate the realization of business value and savings 
•    Responsible for performance managing and continually improving category strategies
•    Continually monitors the market to understand leading practices and changes in market conditions

Sourcing:
•    Develops and implements sourcing, negotiating and contracting strategies to achieve category goals 
•    Provides direction and strategy for catalogs, Guided Buying, and Sourcing playbook development
•    Ensures efficiency of events through appropriate use of buying channels, catalogs, and RFx events and champions ongoing continuous improvement.  
•    Partners with category analysts and procurement operations to execute category strategy/plan to maximum value

Supplier Management:
•    Responsible for supplier management activities including resolution. Ensuring the appropriate level of oversight, direction and development based on the defined criteria
•    Serves as a supplier relationship manager for key suppliers 
•    Responsible for supplier evaluations including understanding capabilities and risk prior to and during the relationship

Stakeholder Management:
•    Partners with the business stakeholders at appropriate levels for the respective category and facilitates resolution and communication of all other procurement activities
 

Who You Are
You are an experienced procurement professional with expertise in IT strategic sourcing and category management supporting a global IT organization.  You have a track record of successfully developing and leading a global IT sourcing team, including developing and optimizing sourcing processes and driving continuous improvement.

•    10-12 years’ experience in procurement including the below areas:
      o    Accomplished in category management (5-7 years) and has subject expertise for IT Procurement (3-5 years)
     o    Sourcing Category Team Management experience (3years+)
     o    Strong experience with negotiation of contract and commercial terms and conditions and able to coach others (5years+)
•       Strong leadership and collaboration skills with ability to build effective relationships and influence peers and key stakeholders.
•    Excellent interpersonal, motivational and leadership skills
•    Ability to deal with change and ambiguity effectively
•    Strong project management skills with ability to plan tasks, assign resources, manage progress, remove barriers, manage change, resolve conflict, build consensus, and motivate team members across multiple projects concurrently (5years+)
•    Excellent communication skills with the ability to tailor messages to the given audience. Can present information in a clear and concise manner
•    Ability to prioritize, organize and multitask in a flexible, fast-paced and challenging environment
•    Strong global leadership & influence skills that inspire trust, collaboration, operational excellence (4years+)
•    Strong process and cost improvement skills
•    C.P.M./CPSM certification desirable

Education: 
•    Undergraduate degree or the equivalent combination of education and experience required 
 

Global Business Services

The Global Business Services (GBS) team is an organization established to transform Biogen’s business processes to set a platform to scale global operations, fuel commercial growth and the innovation pipeline.  Further, GBS will provide further value by developing and delivering a suite of business solutions and support services that are valued by internal customers.   GBS will deliver services by leveraging a global delivery model, operational transparency and metrics, leveraging global best practices, and a service-oriented process improvement culture.   All solutions will be supported by strong business cases and ultimately monitored for the effectiveness and efficiency against benchmarks and service level agreements.

The vision of GBS at Biogen is to be recognized as a world-class Global Business Services organization driven by the desire for excellence in its people, business solutions, execution and partnerships with internal customers.

The GBS team will champion building a continuous improvement culture that other parts of the organization will recognize and seek out for business support.  We are developing a performance-based culture supported by tools, training, and well-defined accountability, where people can build their career or prepare for a role in the wider business or elsewhere within GBS. We seek individuals who can enhance our team with their knowledge, skills, innovation, collaboration and “can do” attitude.

Why Biogen?

Our mission to find therapies for neurological and rare diseases is a unique focus within our industry and this shared purpose is what connects us as a team. We work together to overcome obstacles and to follow the science. We are resilient as we strive to make an impact on our patients’ lives and on changing the course of medicine. Together, we pioneer. Together, we thrive.

At Biogen, we are committed to building on our culture of inclusion and belonging that reflects the communities where we operate and the patients we serve. We know that diverse backgrounds, cultures, and perspectives make us a stronger and more innovative company, and we are focused on building teams where every employee feels empowered and inspired. Read on to learn more about our DE&I efforts.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, marital status, race, color, national origin, ancestry, ethnicity, religion, age, veteran status, disability, genetic information or any other basis protected by federal, state or local law. Biogen is an E-Verify Employer in the United States.