Vendor Strategy Category Lead 1, Director (Research)

at  Pfizer

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelor’s degree is required with 14+ years of experience. An advanced degree is preferred.
• At least 10 years’ pharmaceutical or healthcare industry experience within associated functions (e.g. pre-clinical, scientific, laboratory, finance, R&D or procurement)
• Extensive background in clinical trial conduct, global clinical trial operations, and a thorough understanding of the processes associated with project and study management, monitoring, clinical and regulatory operations
• Demonstrated experience and understanding of risk management within clinical trial execution
• Business experience and understanding of vendor engagement and contracting processes
• Good Clinical Practice (GCP), quality systems infrastructure, and 3rd party supplier management experience
• Ability to support document requests and create tools for internal audits, regulatory agency inspections, and litigation
• Excellent analytical management skills
• Demonstrated sound business acumen and judgement
• Models key behaviors of customer focus; integrity and trust
• Deals with ambiguity is creative and has ability to adapt in real-time
• Drives for results, plans, manages and measures work
• Multi-tasking; prioritizing; coping with high work volume
• Ability to meet tight deadlines
• Ability to work autonomously as well as working within a team
• General knowledge of applying continuous improvement tools to business process improvements/business process re-engineering
• Demonstrated experience to manage and improve large complex processes and/or business operating models

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• An advanced degree is preferred - Master’s degree with 12+ years, or a PhD with 9+ years.

NON-STANDARD WORK SCHEDULE, TRAVEL OR ENVIRONMENT REQUIREMENTS

• Occasional travel for business/team meetings.
• During exceptional circumstances, need to work non-traditional hours (such as during a regulatory agency inspection)

ROLE SUMMARY

• The Vendor Strategy Category Lead (VL) will serve as the single point of business accountability in Clinical Development and Operations to support strategic sourcing, vendor selection, assessment, onboarding, and monitor performance of vendors in Oncology Discovery, Scientific Research strategy
• Serve as point person for stakeholders across the organization as well as to the relevant vendors.
• Works closely with colleagues in CD&O and Chief Scientific Officer’s group to ensure outsourcing requirements are delivered as defined while ensuring Scientific Research vendor scope for all Oncology products are achieved
• Lead and ensure vendor risk management, vendor issues management, and general guidance are maintained for all relevant vendors within these service categories

ROLE RESPONSIBILITIES

• Selection of preferred vendors within the strategic framework for Oncology Research
• Monitor and support compliance with sourcing and contract adherence
• Ensure appropriate communication and oversight of vendor panel
• Support audit/inspections/litigation readiness and responses
• Oversee risk management of central labs to mitigate volume and impact of issues
• Provide guidance and expertise to teams for required vendor onboarding and engagement activities
• Act as functional line in vendor assessments for applicable operating procedures including onboarding.
• Define and assign curriculum to vendor resources; ensure systems access for vendor resources.
• Core member of governance structure
• Provide technical issue management; partners with study level study management/relevant line.
• Co-Leads with Procurement the MSA and rate card negotiations
• Monitor trends, SQEs, metrics related to time/ quality/ cost.
• Track volume and spend across preferred vendors
• Oversee the maintenance of performance metrics and indicators, issue escalation, CAPAs, remediation plans, and monitoring systemic deficiencies