What You Will Do

• Your primary focus will be on:

  • Managing RFPs, vendor selection and strategy
  • Negotiation and vendor onboarding

• Strategy & Architecture: Design and implement the company’s first formal procurement policy and strategy

• Vendor selection and negotiation: Partner with Function Leads, Technical Program Managers, and Operating Partners to lead the selection, negotiation, and onboarding of vendors

• Category Management: Oversee spend across:

  • G&A software, licenses and databases
  • IT/SaaS
  • Professional Services

• Cost Optimisation:

  • Identify and execute cost-saving initiatives (e.g., volume discounts, preferred vendor programs) to stretch our capital further
  • Benchmark supplier quotes and negotiate with vendors on price and other key terms

• Risk Mitigation:

  • Ensure all vendors understand and meet stringent compliance, quality, and data security standards
  • Implement multisourcing to introduce redundancy for business-critical situations

• Vendor onboarding: Manage the vendor onboarding process, including Vendor Security Assessments and Finance systems enrollment

Skills and Qualifications

• Depth of experience in procurement, ideally within the Biotech/Pharma or Tech/SaaS industry
• Proven track record of building, scaling, or significantly transforming a procurement function from the ground up, including:
  • Writing policies
  • Establishing governance
• Deep understanding of sourcing strategies across critical spend areas, specifically:
  • IT infrastructure
  • Enterprise software licenses
  • Data/databases
  • Professional Services
• Advanced negotiation skills with a strong grasp of:
  • Commercial contract law
  • IP considerations
  • Data security/privacy regulations (e.g., GDPR) relevant to vendor onboarding
• Ability to work autonomously in a high-growth, venture-backed, rapidly scaling environment
• Hands-on experience:
  • Selecting, implementing or optimizing ERP/e-Procurement software (e.g., NetSuite, Coupa, Jaggaer)
• Exceptional relationship-building skills with the ability to:
  • Partner with
  • Influence
  • Educate highly technical and scientific stakeholders
• Bachelor’s degree in business would be an advantage, but is not essential

Culture and Values

We are guided by our shared values:

Thoughtful Thoughtful at Iso is about curiosity, creativity, and care. It is about good people doing good, rigorous and future-making science every single day.

Brave Brave at Iso is about fearlessness, but it’s also about initiative and integrity. The scale of the challenge demands nothing less.

Determined Determined at Iso is the way we pursue our goals. It’s a confidence in our hypotheses, as well as the urgency and agility needed to deliver on them. Because disease won’t wait, so neither should we.

Together Together at Iso is about:

• Connection
• Collaboration across fields
• Catalytic relationships Transformation is a group project, and remembering that what we’re doing will have a real impact on real people everywhere.

Creating an Extraordinary Company

We believe that to be successful, we need a team with a range of skills and talents. We're building an environment where:

• Collaboration is fundamental
• Learning is shared
• Every employee feels supported and able to thrive

We value:

• Unique experiences
• Knowledge, backgrounds, and perspectives

We harness these qualities to create extraordinary impact.

We are committed to equal employment opportunities regardless of:

• Sex
• Race
• Religion or belief,
• Ethnic or national origin,
• Disability,
• Age,
• Citizenship,
• Marital, domestic, or civil partnership status
• Sexual orientation,
• Gender identity
• Pregnancy-related conditions (including breastfeeding)
• Any other basis protected by applicable law

If you have a disability or additional need that requires accommodation, please do not hesitate to let us know.

Hybrid Working

It’s hugely important for us to share knowledge and build strong relationships with each other, and we find it easier to do this if we spend time together in person. This is why we follow a hybrid model and would require you to be able to come into the office 3 days a week (currently on Tuesday, Wednesday, and one other day, depending on which team you’re in). If you have additional needs that would prevent you from following this hybrid approach, we’d be happy to discuss this if you’re selected for an initial screening call.

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