Dir, Procurement

**Description**

**Director, Procurement**

Syneos Health is the only fully integrated biopharmaceutical solutions organization purpose-built to accelerate customer success. We lead with a product development mindset, seamlessly connecting our capabilities to add high-value insights to speed therapies to patients and provide practical value to help our customers achieve their objectives.

Every day we perform better because of how we work together, as one team, each the best at what we do. We bring a wide range of talented experts together across a wide range of business-critical services that support our business. Every role within Corporate is vital to furthering our vision of Shortening the Distance from Lab to Life®.

Discover what our 29,000 employees, across 110 countries already know:
**WORK HERE MATTERS EVERYWHERE**

**Why Syneos Health**
- We are passionate about developing our people, through career development and progression; supportive and engaged line management; technical and therapeutic area training; peer recognition and total rewards program.
- We are committed to our Total Self culture - where you can authentically be yourself. Our Total Self culture is what unites us globally, and we are dedicated to taking care of our people.
- We are continuously building the company we all want to work for and our customers want to work with. Why? Because when we bring together diversity of thoughts, backgrounds, cultures, and perspectives - we’re able to create a place where everyone feels like they belong.

**Job Summary**

Responsible for the oversight of Procurement processes, researching issues and providing analysis and departmental metrics. Independently performs a wide range of procurement duties. Assists with day to day procurement process and ensures the accuracy of the procurement process. Responsible for training new staff members. Responsible for maintaining the integrity of procurement processes and ensuring all discrepancies are addressed and resolved in a timely manager. Represents Procurement at key meetings with the business and assists in highly critical and complex tasks within the procurement organization. Serves as the initial escalation for Procurement Specialists and Analysts. Reports on optimal cost, value, timely delivery, quality of goods and or services delivered by vendor to the organization. Develops, deploys, and ensures that all applicable Policies and Procedures are followed on behalf of Syneos Health.

**Responsibilities**:

- Coordinates procurement processes such as critical review of the finalization of the Vendor contracts, and oversight of approaches to managed performance of vendors to mitigate risk.
- Directs maintenance and/or maintains accurate record and files related to procurement. Trains, directs and reviews the work of support staff to ensure compliance with company’s policies and procedures. Serves as the first line of escalation to Procurement Specialists and Analysts.
- Complies and Evaluates requests across multiple categories and vendors to develop common approaches and techniques as required by the Business, Project, and/or Customer.
- Provides functional guidance and trains applicable project team or business owner aware of statuses or pending issues. Prepares and maintains correspondence such as minutes, reports, etc. as necessary.
- Develops and deploys applicable company guidelines and ensures appropriate corrections are completed and documented in a timely manner.
- Participates in face-to-face or teleconferences with Vendor and/or business owner meetings as a delegate of the Procurement Process Owner.
- Performs required audits and procedural reviews on behalf of Global Procurement for adherence to Company Procurement Policies and Practices. Participates, as necessary, when delegated in Customer Audits and provides technical support on processes.
- Educates internal and external business owners, vendors and customers on the company’s procurement department and the applicable procurement needs such as Vendor Qualification, management, purchasing and contracting. Assists business owners and project members on vendor selection and develops processes to maintain vendor information internally within vendor database, ERP systems filing, etc.
- Assists in coordination with vendors and internal departments such as Finance, Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable to resolve repetitive or procedural obstacles.
- Plans, organizes, and directs complex procurement activities that may arise within the Global Procurement Department.
- Coordinate with other departments with in Vendor management group such as qualification, sourcing and vendor onboarding groups to gain efficiencies.

**Qualifications**

**What we’re looking for**
- BS/BA/BCOM degree in Business Administration, Accounting, Economics, Finance or related field plus experience working in Procurement / Purchase space at multi-million companies, preferably within a CRO or service industry.
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