R532933 Senior Specialist, R&D Procurement

​Job Description

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PositionOverview

This position will be responsible for working alongside the Director/Team Leader of Clinical/OR/Pre-Clinical R&D Global Procurement & Supplier Management in developing and executing a multi-year strategy that expands the capability and flexibility of working with external partners across the R&D organization at Organon.

This position will be responsible for managing activities in support of our current (and future) outsourced scope of work. Responsibilities will include managing processes and connections between an external partner and the various stakeholders within Organon R&D including Clinical/Outcomes Research (OR)/Pre-Clinical functional teams and Global Procurement to ensure that we are efficiently and effectively delivering high quality research activities on time globally. The incumbent expected to have a working knowledge of and skills in one or multiple functions such as clinical operations, outcomes research, outsourcing, and project management.

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PrimaryResponsibilities

• Support the onboarding of vendor resources and facilitate the vendors ability to execute on sourced scope of work.
• Manage assigned clinical operations, pre-clinical, and/or OR sourced activities efficiently and on-time.
• Identify and escalate issues related to the delivery of high-quality, on-time materials and/or services.
• Collaborate with internal teams and external parties to ensure best possible delivery of sourced submission work through clearly defined objectives and actively managing and tracking overall performance (via metrics) of assigned vendors.
• Actively collaborate with assigned vendor(s) to assure new capabilities and services are developed, and existing capabilities and processes are assessed and improved (on an ongoing basis)
• Support of annual business planning and the analysis and proposal of the annual financial plan related to external partner expenditures.

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Tasks

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills including ability to write clearly and concisely.
• Strong interpersonal skills in difficult situations. Ability to work seamlessly with all levels of personnel.
• Demonstrated sensitivity and knowledge of cultural differences with experience in multi-country, multi-cultural environments and demonstrated success with cross- geographically based cultural collaborations.

Competencies

• Demonstrated sensitivity and knowledge of cultural differences with experience in multi-country, multi-cultural environments and demonstrated success with cross- geographically based cultural collaborations.
• Excellent word processing, SharePoint, excel, e-mail, and online meeting tool skills.

Qualifications

Skills

• Good negotiation, interpersonal, and communication skills.
• Ability to work effectively in matrix organizational structures.
• Prior experience and understanding of vendor selection/management for interventional and non-interventional clinical studies.
• Understanding of the requirements and nature of outcomes research using real- world data.

Experience

• Experience working in a drug development outsourced model, either on the outsourcer or client side with an ability to translate learnings to clinical and pre-clinical outsourcing model.
• Basic experience with leading successful delivery of projects (pipeline, business improvement, and/or change management projects).
• Knowledgeable of clinical operations and study management and operations and/or outcomes research studies for pharmaceutical products, vaccines and/or biologic products.
• At least 3-5 years of working experience with or within a healthcare/life sciences industry project management, clinical operations and pre-clinical function that includes working with external partners.
• Prior experience and understanding of vendor selection/management for interventional and non-interventional clinical studies.

Education

• Bachelors degree or equivalent work experience in pharmaceutical research and development.