Resumen
About the Role
Key Responsibilities:
- Prepare and release RFI, RFP and RFQs and negotiate with existing and new suppliers to support business for new requests as well as re-negotiating scope changes.
- Act as the main point of contact with vendors for negotiation of the scope of work, study assumptions, pricing, and payment schedules.
- Negotiate, develop, and execute contract frameworks including MSA's & SLA with key suppliers and ensure full implementation.
- Ensure agreements are commercial advantageous to Novartis while minimizing risk through close collaboration with functional partners such as legal, finance, and QA.
- Ensure ESP selection is based on current category strategy, value added services, cost avoidance and savings opportunities. Delivering a robust implementation to maximize value and drive spend/contract compliance - to also include ongoing monitoring and reduction of maverick spend
- Drive annual productivity improvements in applicable spend categories
- Responsible for complete contract packages for clinical ESP activities. Secure all necessary approvals to ensure compliance to SOX and company procedures.
- Contribute to vendor audit requests and facilitate corrective action plans.
- Ensure ESPs are delivering in line with expectations and contracts.
- Able to identify proactively and pursue new ideas and opportunities, acting as an innovation agent and modifying approach and behaviors as necessary to create value.
- Planning, organizing and managing projects taking into account priorities, resources, budgets, issues and constraints to achieve desired results; defining clear project scope and objectives; utilizing software and tools to plan, track and report status.
- Achieving results by proactively building long-term, sustainable and effective relationships, understanding the stakeholder landscape and demonstrating political astuteness across business structures and networks.
Essential Requirements:
- Minimum of 5 years’ experience in Clinical Development / Pharma R&D / Procurement
- Minimum of 5 years’ experience in Outsourcing within the Pharma or CRO industry.
- Detailed understanding of the clinical development process and robust understanding of the management of clinical trials.
- Excellent influencing and negotiating skills.
- Solid understanding of contractual legal terms and conditions.
- Excellent understanding of the Clinical CRO marketplace including central laboratories, reference laboratories and speciality providers
- Solid financial understanding as it relates to clinical trial contracts and cost elements.
- Analysing specifications for optimization. Linking specification to customer value, challenging specification confidently. Conveying messages clearly and convincing stakeholders
Desirable Requirements:
- Minimum Bachelor's degree in Lifesciences/Chemistry / Biochemistry or Pharmaceutical sciences is required.
Why Novartis: Our purpose is to reimagine medicine to improve and extend people’s lives and our vision is to become the most valued and trusted medicines company in the world. How can we achieve this? With our people. It is our associates that drive us each day to reach our ambitions. Be a part of this mission and join us! Learn more here: https://www.novartis.com/about/strategy/people-and-culture
You’ll receive: You can find everything you need to know about our benefits and rewards in the Novartis Life Handbook. https://www.novartis.com/careers/benefits-rewards
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Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion:
Novartis is committed to building an outstanding, inclusive work environment and diverse teams' representative of the patients and communities we serve.
Accessibility and accommodation
Novartis is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodation to individuals with disabilities. If, because of a medical condition or disability, you need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the recruitment process, or in order to perform the essential functions of a position, please send an e-mail to [email protected] and let us know the nature of your request and your contact information. Please include the job requisition number in your message
Why Novartis: Helping people with disease and their families takes more than innovative science. It takes a community of smart, passionate people like you. Collaborating, supporting and inspiring each other. Combining to achieve breakthroughs that change patients’ lives. Ready to create a brighter future together? https://www.novartis.com/about/strategy/people-and-culture
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Benefits and Rewards: Read our handbook to learn about all the ways we’ll help you thrive personally and professionally: https://www.novartis.com/careers/benefits-rewards
Accessibility and accommodation
Novartis is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodation to individuals with disabilities. If, because of a medical condition or disability, you need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the recruitment process, or in order to perform the essential functions of a position, please send an e-mail to [email protected] and let us know the nature of your request and your contact information. Please include the job requisition number in your message.
Novartis is committed to building an outstanding, inclusive work environment and diverse teams' representative of the patients and communities we serve.
