The Senior R&D Strategic Outsourcing Manager will be a Category Manager for the Clinical Services category, supporting the Category Lead and being a point of contact for all Development Operations' and other R&D departments' outsourcing needs and activities with Clinical Research Organization and related Vendors.
Requirements
- Support and provide thought leadership to category strategy development, optimization and management working with SS&P leadership and the business units.
- Understand business priorities and challenges by building trusted and collaborative stakeholder relationships, thus, ensuring successful sourcing strategies.
- Support or may lead vendor evaluation activities (RFIs and RFPs) and selection process including facilitation of vendor capability presentations, software demonstrations, bid defense meetings and vendor award notifications.
- Negotiate contracts involving larger dollar amounts.
- Collaborate with Strategic Supplier Relationship team(s) or business as appropriate to effectively manage the cost, schedule and performance aspects of major contracts and subcontracts.
- Support, or may act as SS&P lead on meetings with stakeholders and suppliers, especially in Supplier Relationship Management activities such as regularly scheduled Business Reviews.
- Manage end-to-end SOW and associated contract development and execution workflow for low-risk contracts leveraging the Legal Contract Lifecycle Management (CLM) system.
- Liaise and collaborate with Exelixis’ Legal department and Business Owners to ensure vendor contract terms and conditions adequately address all business needs and requirements for services and protect Exelixis’, SS&P’s, and Exelixis’ Business Owners’ interests prior to contract execution.
- Support department initiatives and continuous improvement efforts and take greater leadership to develop and maintain SS&P business processes.
- Represent SS&P at internal Team meetings.
- Maintain audit inspection readiness.
- Supervise and manage direct reports (Sourcing Managers, Associate Manager, and Sourcing Associates) if applicable.
Benefits
- Comprehensive employee benefits package
- 401k plan with generous company contributions
- Group medical, dental and vision coverage
- Life and disability insurance
- Flexible spending accounts
- Discretionary annual bonus program
- Sales-based incentive plan
- Opportunity to purchase company stock
- Long-term incentives
- 15 accrued vacation days in the first year
- 17 paid holidays including a company-wide winter shutdown in December
- Up to 10 sick days throughout the calendar year
