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About this role
As a senior analyst you will be responsible for the category’s contract (lifecycle) managementYou will support and partially also lead and manage a portfolio of projects from start to finish, requiring the collaboration with and coordination of multiple internal and external stakeholders globallyYou will contribute to the category goals by supporting the category lead and the category managers amongst others with spend and saving analysis and overall category management tasksThe ideal candidate should have the ability to work independently, execute projects within the agreed deadlines and with the appropriate sense of urgencyThis role will report to the global category lead distribution & logistics.
*this role may be based remotely*
What you’ll do
Contract management and category support:
Generates and analyses spend reports from the existing sourcing systems and provides spend reporting to the category managers on regular basis
Provides functional and category analytics, both routinely and on an ad-hoc basis as required
Partners with category lead and category managers to establish saving targets
Performs savings tracking and analysis for the category
Contributes to process improvements within the category and in close cooperation with stakeholders/business partners
Identifies and leads ci initiatives in partnership with category managers and stakeholders as applicable
Ensures market competitive sourcing: initiates market studies for various d&l sub-categories to identify market trendsMonitors the market to understand logistics trends, current developments, and changes in market conditions
Contributes to category management planning
Supports and partially leads category projects including rfi/rfp projects, i.e., in cooperation with the buying desk
Supports negotiating and contracting strategies to achieve category goals
Responsible for / leading contract management, contract life cycle management and contract administration (i.e., as determine super user) for the d&l category and in close cooperation with the category lead and category managers
Supports supplier management activities from a procurement perspective, ensuring the appropriate level of oversight, direction and development based on defined criteria
Qualifications
Who you are
You are analytical and enjoy working with dataYou are experienced in contract management and negotiations as well as project management in collaboration with cross functional teams.
Qualifications:
Minimum 3-5 years’ experience in strategic procurement inclCategory and supplier management, contract (life cycle) management
Very good understanding of contracting and commercial terms and conditions
Experience with negotiation of contracts and commercial terms and conditions
Good understanding of procurement tasks, category management and the distribution and logistics industry
Project management skills with the ability to plan tasks, remove barriers, manage changes, resolve conflicts, build consensus, and motivate team members across multiple projects concurrently
Ability to prioritize, organize and multitask in a flexible, fast paced, and challenging global environment
Strong research, analytical and problem-solving skills
Proven ability to work in diverse, cross-functional teams with limited guidance (internally and externally, globally)
Actively solicits differing opinions to ensure understanding of complex issues and acts in a manner that builds and maintains trust
Strong communication skills with ability to present information in a clear and concise manner
Excellent interpersonal and organization skills with strong attention to detail
Effectiveness in gathering relevant information from internal and external sources to research, analyze, draw effective conclusions, and resolve issues
Education:
Bachelor’s degree or the equivalent combination of education and experience required; advanced/graduate degree preferred.
Additional information
The company
At biogen, our mission is clear: we are pioneers in neuroscienceBiogen discovers, develops, and delivers worldwide innovative therapies for people living with serious neurological and neurodegenerative diseasesOne 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 ophthalmologyBiogen also manufactures and commercializes biosimilars of advanced biologics.
Global business services
The vision of global business services (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.
We do this by partnering with the business and enterprise functions (internal customers) to identify repeatable, scalable business processes that be standardized, optimized, collocated where appropriate to drive maximum effectiveness in operation, while also driving enterprise efficienciesGbs will deliver these services by leveraging a global delivery model, operational transparency, and metrics, leveraging global best practices, and a service-oriented process improvement cultureAll solutions will be supported by strong business cases and ultimately monitored for the effectiveness and efficiency against benchmarks and service level agreementsGlobal procurement and the distribution & logistics category team is part of gbs.
Additional information
As a senior analyst you will be responsible for the category’s contract (lifecycle) managementYou will support and partially also lead and manage a portfolio of projects from start to finish, requiring the collaboration with and coordination of multiple internal and external stakeholders globally.
