- Serve as an insights-driven strategic partner across R&D
- Synthesize business intelligence, spend analytics, and market trends to uncover strategic opportunities
- Provide strategic, insights-led business partnering across pRED, gRED, and Product Development
- Collaborate with customers, internal procurement teams, and transactional/operations teams to align needs, fulfill opportunities, enhance services, improve customer experience, and realize value
- Act as a subject matter expert, project lead, or workstream lead
- Develop strategies and measure and track performance
- Identify and leverage synergies across Roche
- Provide business insights and opportunities to stakeholders through the procurement organization
- Identify common operational challenges and drive enterprise-wide solutions
- Translate procurement and market data into strategic recommendations for business leaders
- Prioritize customer engagements based on potential impact
- Partner with Analytics & Insights, Market Intelligence, and Category teams to formulate data-informed hypotheses, identify market trends, and uncover efficiency or innovation opportunities
- Lead the transformation of procurement through collaboration and strategic business partnering
Requirements
- University degree required; business or life science degree preferable
- 7+ years of procurement (multi-category) or relevant sales or customer management leadership experience, ideally in a matrix organization
- Demonstrated experience across the Pharma R&D landscape, including early research environments like pRED/gRED or clinical development
- Comfortable using data, market intelligence, and business insights to build compelling narratives, test hypotheses, and influence senior stakeholders
- Strong proven success building and cultivating collaborative and productive relationships with senior stakeholders
- Demonstrated project management skills
- Enterprise thinking and ability to create solutions for business customers by fostering collaboration across the procurement network
- Action-oriented with ability to make decisions and influence others
- Curiosity, active listening, willingness to experiment, and focus on continuous learning and improvement
- Open-minded and inclusive, willing to share ideas and knowledge and receptive to feedback
- Fluent in English to business level
Core Competencies
Demonstrates expertise in procurement and strategic business partnering within the Pharma R&D landscape, leveraging data and market intelligence to drive insights and influence decision-making. Proven ability to cultivate relationships with senior stakeholders and lead cross-functional collaboration to enhance operational efficiency.
Highest-signal resume keywords
- Procurement Leadership
- Pharma R&D Experience
- Project Management Skills
- Data-Driven Decision Making
- Stakeholder Engagement
Hard Skills
- Business Intelligence
- Spend Analytics
- Market Trends Analysis
- Performance Measurement
- Strategic Recommendations
- Operational Solutions
- Data Analysis
- Procurement Strategies
- Customer Management
- Multi-Category Procurement
Soft Skills
- Collaboration
- Influencing Skills
- Curiosity
- Active Listening
- Open-Mindedness
Industry Keywords
- Pharma
- R&D
- Clinical Development
- Matrix Organization
- Enterprise Thinking
- Customer Experience
- Insights-Driven
- Strategic Partnering
- Continuous Improvement
- Stakeholder Management
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Senior Procurement Partnering Manager – Cross-R&D in Welwyn employer: Jobtailor
As a Client Services Coordinator at our dynamic company, you will thrive in a supportive work culture that prioritises employee growth and development. We offer comprehensive training, opportunities for advancement, and a collaborative environment where your contributions are valued. Located in a vibrant area, our team enjoys a healthy work-life balance and the chance to engage with diverse clients, making every day rewarding and meaningful.
