Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Teva Pharmaceuticals is a leading innovative biopharmaceutical company with a world-class generics business focused on addressing patients’ needs worldwide. The Director R&D Procurement – Clinical Supply leads global category management for Clinical Supply, developing procurement strategies, supplier partnerships, productivity roadmaps, and resilience initiatives while guiding category managers and sourcing professionals.
Responsibilities
- Partner with Clinical Supply and R&D leaders to align procurement strategies with business priorities, portfolio needs, and long-term objectives
- Lead category strategy development, prioritization, and multi-year roadmaps across clinical supply categories, translating business needs, spend insights, market intelligence, and supplier capabilities into actionable strategies
- Serve as the Procurement category expert, providing strategic insights and recommendations to influence business decisions
- Develop category productivity roadmaps that identify opportunities to optimize cost, improve supplier performance, reduce risk, and create measurable business value
- Leverage spend analytics, supplier insights, benchmarking, and market intelligence to identify opportunities and guide strategic decisions
- Establish value plans, performance measures, and reporting mechanisms to demonstrate category impact and outcomes
- Develop strategic supplier relationship strategies for critical clinical supply suppliers, including supplier segmentation, governance models, performance expectations, and executive engagement
- Maintain external market intelligence and supplier capability perspectives across CROs, FSP/FSO models, central laboratories, biometrics providers, clinical technology providers, and related services to inform category strategies and business decisions
- Leverage supplier insights to identify innovation opportunities, strengthen partnerships, and improve business outcomes
- Provide leadership, coaching, and strategic direction to category managers and sourcing professionals, establishing priorities, accountability, and capability growth
- Build scalable category management practices, governance models, and ways of working that strengthen Procurement effectiveness and stakeholder engagement
- Drive change and continuous improvement to advance Procurement’s role as a strategic business partner
- Ensure category strategies translate into effective sourcing approaches, supplier strategies, and commercial outcomes in partnership with sourcing, Legal, Finance, Quality, Regulatory, and business stakeholders
- Balance cost, quality, speed, flexibility, innovation, compliance, supplier sustainability, and resilience when developing procurement strategies and recommendations
Skills
- 10+ years of progressive experience in procurement, category management, strategic sourcing, supplier relationship management, or related disciplines, with significant experience supporting clinical supply, R&D, life sciences, pharmaceuticals, biotechnology, or other regulated environments
- Demonstrated success developing category strategies, supplier strategies, productivity initiatives, and business partnerships within complex global organizations
- Strong understanding of pharmaceutical drug development, clinical development operating models, outsourcing strategies, supplier ecosystems, and regulatory requirements
- Proven ability to influence senior stakeholders, translate business priorities into procurement strategies, and deliver measurable business value through strong commercial, analytical, and strategic capabilities
- Strategic procurement leader who connects business priorities, supplier ecosystems, and market intelligence to create value
- Trusted business partner who influences stakeholders, challenges constructively, and enables effective decision-making
- Strong category, commercial, analytical, and people leadership capabilities with the ability to drive change, build capability, and deliver outcomes through others
- Bachelor's degree required
- Master's degree with 8+ years of relevant experience, or Bachelor's degree with 10+ years of relevant experience
- Minimum five years of direct people leadership, team leadership, and/or significant matrix leadership experience
- Advanced degree preferred in Business, Supply Chain, Life Sciences, Finance, or related field
- Experience supporting clinical supply categories, including CROs, FSP/FSO models, central labs, biometrics providers, clinical technology providers, patient recruitment vendors, clinical supply providers, or related services
- Experience building category management capabilities, strategic supplier relationship programs, supplier governance models, or procurement operating models
- Experience supporting global R&D organizations within complex pharmaceutical environments and leveraging procurement technologies, analytics, or digital capabilities
Benefits
- Comprehensive Health Insurance: Medical, Dental, Vision, and Prescription coverage starting on the first day of employment, providing the employee enrolls.
- 401(k) with employer match, up to 6% and an annual 3.75% Defined Contribution to the 401k plan.
- Paid Time Off including vacation, sick/safe time, caretaker time and holidays.
- Company paid Life and Disability insurance.
- Employee Assistance Program
- Employee Stock Purchase Plan
- Tuition Assistance
- Flexible Spending Accounts
- Health Savings Account
- Life Style Spending Account
- Volunteer Time Off
- Paid Parental Leave, if eligible
- Family Building Benefits
- Virtual Physical Therapy
- Accident Insurance
- Critical Illness Insurance
- Hospital Indemnity Insurance
- Identity Theft Protection
- Legal Plan
- Voluntary Life Insurance
- Long Term Disability insurance
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