Discovery Research Procurement Lead, R&D Procurement

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Job Description

Discovery Research Procurement Lead, R&D Procurement

Cambridge, MA

Job Summary :

The Discovery Research Procurement Lead manages the Research Procurement Category Team and oversees a $1.3B annual spend on preclinical external services, lab supplies, and equipment for R&D, GMS, GQ, and global manufacturing, supporting Research, Pharma Sciences, and Development.

This team is comprised of Global Category Managers, including Directors, Associate Directors and Managers, who are collectively responsible for the strategic management of spend within the category and translation of those strategies into operational buying activities across a large multi country-responsibility. As such, the Procurement Lead will have accountability for procurement activities in the category from strategy-definition to the purchase order This includes everything in between including contracting and supplier management such as but not limited to, supplier selection, contract negotiations, and recommending buying channels.

The Procurement Lead role is also responsible for partnering with executive level stakeholders, ensuring their alignment with key strategic procurement initiatives, managing, and enhancing procurement’s relationship with each of the in-scope functions. The Procurement Lead should seek to optimize procurement’s value delivery, minimize risk, and promote innovation by providing relevant market insights and category expertise while also acting as a highly influential leader impacting both Research, R&D and Global Quality’s broader success.

The role will be accountable for the strategic development of the Category Strategies in partnership with the Category Managers, ensuring that the team is successful in delivering against its savings targets, procurement goals and KPIs. This can include ESG (Environmental, Social, and Governance) initiatives such as supplier diversity and Scope 3 EHG emissions.

This role will fully embrace and adopt Takeda Leadership Behaviors, the Procurement Lead will foster an environment that enables all colleagues to fulfill their purpose and achieve Takeda’s vision while confidently living our values every day (Integrity, Fairness, Honestly and Perseverance).

Key Responsibilities :

Business partnering

• Establish and maintain excellent collaborative relationships with key business stakeholders including but not limited to Research, Finance and Global Quality (TET-1 and TET-2) globally to ensure that regional and global business goals and objectives are met
• Serve as a highly influential leader within the business impacting decisions within Takeda R&D and beyond to deliver high quality strategy and outcomes
• Work to socialize procurement and category management best practices within the business (i.e. increased utilization of preferred suppliers, SoW optimization and the use of BuyEasy@Takeda etc.)
• Champion procurement policy and wider procurement initiatives, articulating their importance, value and reasoning as required (for example, Ways of Working, Sustainability, Supplier Diversity, etc.)
• Collaborate and provide strategic guidance to the business regarding annual planning, budgeting, and forecasting cycle.
• Align inputs from business planning and budgeting with the procurement annual plan
• Respectfully challenge key category stakeholders based on Patient-Trust-Reputation-Business decisions as part of the business decision making process
• Develop strong working relationships with the wider Takeda business (including supporting functions such as Legal Operations, Takeda Business Solutions etc.) to ensure alignment on key topics relevant to the Procurement function

Category strategy development and category management

Procurement Excellence

People management

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For Location : Cambridge, MA

U.S. Base Salary Range :

$208,200.00 - $327,140.00

The estimated salary range reflects an anticipated range for this position. The actual base salary offered may depend on a variety of factors, including the qualifications of the individual applicant for the position, years of relevant experience, specific and unique skills, level of education attained, certifications or other professional licenses held, and the location in which the applicant lives and / or from which they will be performing the job.The actual base salary offered will be in accordance with state or local minimum wage requirements for the job location.

U.S. based employees may be eligible for short-term and / or long-termincentives. U.S.based employees may be eligible to participate in medical, dental, vision insurance, a 401(k) plan and company match, short-term and long-term disability coverage, basic life insurance, a tuition reimbursement program, paid volunteer time off, company holidays, and well-being benefits, among others. U.S.based employees are also eligible to receive, per calendar year, up to 80 hours of sick time, and new hires are eligible to accrue up to 120 hours of paid vacation.

EEO Statement

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Locations Cambridge, MA

Worker Type Employee

Worker Sub-Type Regular

Time Type Full time

Job Exempt

Yes

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