R&D Partners
Clinical Sourcing Lead
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Ready to lead high-value sourcing projects that shape the future of pharmaceutical innovation?
R&D Partners is seeking a Clinical Sourcing Lead to join our client's team remotely in the UK. In this role, the Sourcing Lead supports Global Category Managers across Pharmaceutical Sciences clinical outsourced manufacturing, supporting category strategies and running the sourcing events that deliver the value of the strategy. The role covers the full cycle from spend to market analysis through RFx, supplier evaluation, negotiation and contract handover, working closely with scientific stakeholders, Legal, Quality and Finance.
Success depends on disciplined project management and speed of execution: multiple sourcing projects run in parallel, each with its own timeline, stakeholder group and savings commitment.
Please note that to be considered for this role you must have the right to work in this location.
Scope of Work:
- Clinical outsourced manufacturing, specifically Synthetic Molecules API and Drug Substance and Biologics API and Drug Substance,
- Clinical outsourced analytical method development and testing,
- Clinical outsourced FSP-based development activities, and
- Other outsourced scientific and clinical services.
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Responsibilities:
- Support category strategy development with spend, supplier market and benchmarking analysis.
- Run sourcing events end to end: scope definition, RFI/RFP, bid analysis, negotiation and award.
- Manage sourcing project plans, timelines, risks and stakeholder meetings and communication; lead workstreams, report progress and savings delivered against targets.
- Partner with Legal, Quality and Finance to move agreements from award to signed contract and into the source-to-pay systems.
- Track supplier performance and market trends, and feed findings back into category strategy.
- Ensure compliance with procurement SOPs, policies and quality standards.
Key Skills and Requirements:
- Bachelor's degree required; MBA preferred.
- 5-7 years in strategic sourcing or procurement project management, ideally in pharma, biotech or life sciences.
- Working knowledge of laboratory categories and research CRO markets, including their supplier landscape and cost drivers.
- Proven RFx and negotiation experience, with the analytical skills to build should-cost and total-cost comparisons.
- Strong project management capability across concurrent workstreams;
- Comfortable with influencing scientific stakeholders without direct authority, and communicating clearly in writing and in person.
- Practical experience with eSourcing and contract systems and advanced Excel and PowerPoint.
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