Sr. Manager, Outsourcing & Vendor Management

Looking for a chance to make a meaningful difference in the oncology space? Taiho Oncology is on a mission: to improve the lives of patients with cancer, their families, and caregivers.

Our “People first” approach means we also highly value our employees, who work relentlessly to help execute our mission.

Taiho’s success is founded on ensuring we always act with accountability, collaboration, and trust.

By following these guiding principles, we earn and maintain the confidence of patients, the global healthcare community, collaborators and partners, and each other.

Together, we are working on cutting-edge science and growing our portfolio and pipeline across a range of tumor types to address the ongoing and evolving needs of patients.

Advanced technology, a world-class clinical development organization, and state-of-the-art facilities: these and other resources empower us to innovate and touch the lives of more and more patients.

It’s our work, our passion, and our legacy.

We invite you to join us.

Hybrid

Employee Value Proposition:

Join our dynamic and expanding mid-size company in the role of Sr.

Manager, Outsourcing and Vendor Management.

Your expertise will play a pivotal and visible role in advancing outsourcing strategy and management for R&D categories at Taiho.

You’ll have an opportunity to work in a cross-functional environment with colleagues in Japan, US and Europe.

The size of our company allows for firsthand experience across different spend categories, procurement operations and external supplier development and management.

Position Summary:

Senior Manager, Outsourcing and Vendor Management, supports and implements strategic procurement activities for Taiho Oncology Inc.

(TOI) and other TOI affiliates.

Closely collaborating with R&D Functions and Corporate departments, the incumbent manages the Outsourcing process from Request for Proposal (RFP) through contract execution.

The incumbent also manages vendor relationships including assessment, selection, evaluation, Key Performance Indicator (KPI) review, and escalation management.

The incumbent demonstrates the ability to handle global projects through established interactions with Outsourcing department of Taiho HQ and/or other Otsuka group companies in Japan & the US.

Performance Objectives:


* Works cross-functionally with key internal stakeholders including R&D Functions, Finance, Legal, Quality, to negotiate MSA, SOW/WO, and Change Order.


* Establish Preferred R&D Suppliers for Clinical Studies and continually evaluate their effectiveness and performance.


* Lead the supplier selection process (RFx), including the selection of transactional suppliers for designated clinical studies, programs, and/or services.


* Develop Category management plan for R&D spend categories and execution of the plan after alignment with leadership.


* Lead R&D Supplier Relationship management including leading the governance committees, issue escalation managem...