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At Biogen, our mission is clear: we are pioneers in neuroscience. Biogen discovers, develops, and delivers worldwide innovative therapies for people living with serious neurological and neurodegenerative diseases. One of the world’s first global biotechnology companies, Biogen was founded in 1978 and today has the leading portfolio of medicines to treat multiple sclerosis, has introduced the first and only approved treatment for spinal muscular atrophy, and is focused on advancing neuroscience research programs in Alzheimer’s disease and dementia, MS and neuroimmunology, movement disorders, neuromuscular disorders, acute neurology, neurocognitive disorders, pain, and ophthalmology. Biogen also manufactures and commercializes biosimilars of advanced biologics.
Global Business Services
The Global Business Services (GBS) team is a newly formed 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.
This leader will provide vision and direction for the category by partnering with Pharmaceutical Manufacturing and Operations business leaders to understand short-term and long-term business needs and priorities and collaborate to develop and execute robust global category and subcategory strategies, >$250M in spend. This individual will champion, support/develop/lead Continuous Improvement initiatives in collaboration with business partners. This leader will possess a positive attitude and ability to influence change management.
This role reports to the Senior Director, Global Supply Chain Categories and has 1 direct report.This role may be based in RTP, NC or Cambridge, MA locations
Category Management: 7-10 years of engineering and procurement experience required; experience in the below is strongly preferred:
o Accomplished in category management (5-7 years+) and has subject expertise for Manufacturing Engineering Services Procurement (3-5 years+)
o Experience with contract negotiations and execution (5 years+)
o 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 (5 years+)
Strong leadership and collaboration skills with ability to build effective relationships and influence peers and key stakeholders.
Excellent interpersonal, motivational and leadership skills
Communicates and influences effectively, with the ability to motivate and influence others inside and outside of own function
Ability to deal with change and ambiguity effectively
Ability to prioritize, organize and multi-task in a flexible, fast-paced and challenging environment
Process and cost improvement skills
C.P.M./CPSM certification desirable
This leader will provide vision and direction for the category by partnering with Pharmaceutical Manufacturing and Operations business leaders to understand short-term and long-term business needs and priorities and collaborate to develop and execute robust global category and subcategory strategies,>$250M in spend.
