Senior Manager, R&D Procurement, Biomarkers Category
On-siteBeerse, Flanders, Belgium
Job Summary
Develop global Innovative Medicine category strategy for Biomarkers, translating scientific and clinical needs into supplier segmentation, contracting pathways, and governance models. Identify market insights, benchmark peer capabilities, and support sourcing events, RFx processes, and negotiations to balance supply assurance, quality, and cost. Manage key supplier relationships, monitor performance against risk and compliance metrics, and drive annual rebate reconciliation and performance reviews. Execute business plan commitments for savings, cost management, and traceable impact goals while leveraging digital and analytics tools for spend intelligence. Partner with clinical trial teams, legal, finance, and vendor management to align procurement strategy with therapeutic area demands and pipeline requirements.
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree
- Minimum of 8 years of related working experience
- Strong business acumen
- Influencing skills
- Strong leadership and collaboration skills
- Strong verbal, written communication, and presentation skills
- Broad-based understanding of core procurement areas of focus (spend management, category management, supplier management, and negotiation)
- Demonstrated learning agility
- Demonstrated project management skills
- English
- Travel requirement: up to 10%
- Flex policy: maximum 2 days from home, subject to local policy and business needs
Desired Qualifications
- Master's degree or advanced degree in sciences, business, supply chain, procurement, or related field
- Working experience in the pharmaceutical, MedTech, clinical development, laboratory services, diagnostics, central lab, biomarker, or CRO industry
- Experience with biomarkers, specialty labs, companion diagnostics, assay development, clinical trial services, central laboratories, or adjacent R&D/clinical/Supply Chain categories
- Experience working across geographies and with supplier relationships that cross category teams, business units, and sectors
- Experience using data, analytics, market intelligence, and approved GenAI tools to support sourcing, negotiation, contract review, spend analytics, supplier segmentation, or category strategy
- Experience leading or supporting a category strategy refresh, including assessing business needs, supplier market dynamics, stakeholder priorities, and implementation plans to advance category maturity and measurable business value
- Demonstrated ability to partner with business development, commercial, marketing, scientific, technology, regulatory, quality, finance, legal, and procurement stakeholders
- Advanced Analytics
- Business Data Analysis
- Business Savvy
- Category Management Strategy
- Competitive Landscape Analysis
- Contract Management
- Cost-Benefit Analysis (CBA)
- Critical Thinking
- Leadership
- Market Savvy
- Mentorship
- Negotiation
- Organizing
- Performance Measurement
- Process Improvements
- Relationship Building
- Risk Management
- Spend Analysis
- Strategic Thinking
- Supplier Collaboration
- Sustainable Procurement
- Technical Credibility
- Vendor Selection
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