Job Title: Procurement Partner

Location: Boston, MA (Onsite 5 Days a Week)

Contract: 5 months

Description:

Typically working in a complex, high spend environment, involving the implementation of strategic procurement activities. Works with the category leaders; account management team and key customers to ensure successful implementation of strategic sourcing decisions and service deliver against day-to-day buying activities. Acts as an expert in the application of world class strategic sourcing techniques, with the ability to educate and guide their team in the day-to-day application across a wide variety of spend categories from simple goods to complex services to created best practice sourcing across their delegate spend categories. The role holder is accountable for the line and performance management of a Procurement team of Sourcing Specialist and Buyers that are deployed to one of more of the following- the Account Management team, the Global/Regional Category Leads and/or major customer driven projects.

Duties

• Identify, develop, and manage strategic business relationships with key stakeholders in Marketing and Sales as well as suppliers.
• Proactively develop partnerships with key partner functions, including Legal, Finance and IT– ensuring communication is open, ideas and information are shared, and communications foster respect and true collaboration.
• Takes a holistic view of spend and identifies category level demand management, leverage, and LCC opportunities.
• Contributes to defining and modifying the Strategic Sourcing team’s value proposition.
• Enables high performing engagement models with business units and regions.
• Partners closely with business area owners to drive value for company and provides leadership and direction for cross-functional teams.
• Creates breakthrough strategies and purpose-fit processes to drive innovation.
• Develops and implements the framework for Post Contract Management and Supplier Relationship Management, ensuring each supplier relationship is established with a bias for continuous improvement.
• Utilizes outstanding project, program, and change management skills to manage and drive change both internally and externally.
• Leverages deep understanding of marketplace, competitors, and business requirements. Anticipates key changes and drivers in those categories and formulates mid-range and long-range plans.
• Actively supports diversity to expand relationships and spend with Diverse Suppliers
• Builds and drives a Total Cost of Ownership culture across company. Implements Supplier Performance Management with key suppliers to foster innovation, manages supplier performance, and ensures continuous improvement.
• Supports compliance with key controls, processes and procedures, as applicable. In addition, provides support and input to finance policies, procedures and SOP’s to formalize areas of compliance within the finance framework to support future scalability.
• Has the ability to bring potential internal control and compliance related matters that may cause risk to the attention of regional and/or corporate leaders as deemed appropriate. Also provides support to ensure compliance related to FCPA and local laws/regulations, grants and spend transparency requirements across the organization.

Compensation Details:

• Orbis Clinical is an equal opportunity employer that provides a reasonable range of compensation for our positions. Actual compensation is influenced by a wide array of factors including, but not limited to, skill set, level of experience and specific office location.
• The Pay Range for this position is $55.86 - $69.65 per hour, can vary depending on employment status.
• Orbis Clinical provides W2 Employees with options for Health Benefits and 401K.

EEO and Reasonable Accommodation Statement:

Orbis Clinical provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, housing, age, disability or genetics.

We will consider all qualified applicants for employment, including those with criminal histories, in a manner consistent with the requirements of applicable federal, state, and local laws.

By applying for this position, you agree that any calls from Orbis Clinical and its subsidiaries may be monitored or recorded for training and quality assurance purposes.