Senior Manager Regional Indirect Procurement - UK & France in Uxbridge

At Regeneron, we are dedicated to transforming lives through science. As a leading biotechnology company, we develop and commercialize life-changing medicines for people with serious diseases. Join our Global Procurement – International Markets: UK and France as a Senior Manager Indirect Procurement. You will partner with team members and colleagues from each market to implement and optimise plans for supplier engagement and sourcing priorities to achieve local commercial, medical, regulatory, and site objectives while ensuring that market requirements for UK and France (regulatory, language, legal, commercial, medical, cultural, etc.) are understood and appropriately addressed.

Responsibilities

• Enabling global priorities at a local level through partnership with stakeholders and the Global Procurement organisation.
• Understanding of local in-country market requirements and supply base.
• Implement global category strategies to drive consistency in sourcing, contracting, and supplier relationship management in local markets.
• Building processes and driving consistency and development across the organisation.
• Reviewing local contracts for key areas of spend, and using data to monitor trends and patterns across spend at country level.
• Partners with country stakeholders.
• Execution of sourcing, negotiation and contracting activities in support of business needs.
• Driving value in terms of cost savings, cash flow improvement, and other efficiency savings from category management activities.

Qualifications

• This role requires a bachelor’s degree in a relevant field of study and progressive experience in indirect procurement, preferably including experience in Pharma/BioPharma.
• Experience leading/supporting global categories teams, processes, and suppliers across a breadth of categories with a track record in building influential relationships with collaborators and suppliers to achieve results.
• Knowledge of contracting tools, ERPs, and eRFx systems (Oracle, Zycus, GEP, Ariba, or similar).
• Proficiency in French is desirable.

Does this sound like you? You enjoy building effective, balanced, and long-lasting working relationships with internal and external stakeholders, suppliers, and partners. You enjoy leading/supporting cross-functional teams to get results through effective sourcing, negotiations, contracting, and supplier relationship management. You are comfortable providing expert insight regarding rates, unit costs, and costing structures to enable efficient negotiations. You look at external data sources, market information, and supplier engagement to improve knowledge of supply market dynamics.

To be considered, you must possess a bachelor’s degree in a relevant field and progressive experience in indirect procurement, preferably including experience in Pharma/BioPharma. You have experience leading/supporting global categories teams, processes, and suppliers across a breadth of categories and a track record in building influential relationships with collaborators and suppliers to get results for your organization. You are confident at building influential relationships with collaborators and suppliers. You bring knowledge of contracting tools, ERPs, and eRFx systems (Oracle, Zycus, GEP, Ariba, Other). Proficiency in French is desirable.

Apply now to take your first step towards living the Regeneron Way! We have an inclusive culture that provides comprehensive benefits, which vary by location.

Regeneron is an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, colour, religion or belief (or lack thereof), sex, nationality, national or ethnic origin, civil status, age, citizenship status, membership of the Traveler community, sexual orientation, disability, genetic information, familial status, marital or registered civil partnership status, pregnancy or parental status, gender identity, gender reassignment, military or veteran status, or any other protected characteristic in accordance with applicable laws and regulations.

The Company will also provide reasonable accommodation to the known disabilities or chronic illnesses of an otherwise qualified applicant for employment, unless the accommodation would impose undue hardship on the operation of the Company's business.