Director Third Party Management Medical Writing

Director, Third-Party Management (Medical Writing) oversees and optimizes the delivery of services and projects through strategic partnerships with external vendors and service providers, ensuring high-quality outputs while maintaining compliance, proactively managing supplier risk, and driving issue resolution. Key responsibilities include vendor onboarding, capacity/resource allocation, defining KPIs and SLAs, monitoring cost vs. performance, conducting performance reviews, harmonizing ways of working across vendors, and ensuring adherence to Third Party Management frameworks and quality standards. Requires strong leadership in a matrix environment, strategic/enterprise thinking, excellent communication, negotiation skills, and ability to influence at all levels. The role interacts with MW Global Head, MW TA Heads, Finance and Procurement, and supports alignment on priorities, forecasting, and contracting; may involve multi-location considerations given the global nature of the function.