Associate Director, Development Strategic Sourcing

At Genmab, we’re committed to building extra[not]ordinary futures together, by developing antibody products and pioneering, knock-your-socks-off therapies that change the lives of patients and the future of cancer treatment and serious diseases. From our people who are caring, candid, and impact-driven to our business, which is innovative and rooted in science, we believe that being proudly unique, determined to be our best, and authentic is essential to fulfilling our purpose.

Position Summary

This leadership role will drive, collaborate, and advise on the end-to-end contracting & outsourcing process for development services with external service providers e.g., Contract Research Organizations (CROs), and ancillary service providers to support the development pipeline. The role will support the outsourcing strategies and by creating leading practices which improve values, minimize risk & cost, ensure quality, and create scalability in a dynamic and growing business demand setting.

Key Accountabilities

The key accountability of this role is to lead the end-to-end contracting & outsourcing process, in close collaboration with the other teams in DSS as well as departments in Development to facilitate timely, fit for purpose contracts, by:

• Building and leading a global team of outsourcing professionals and support their career development and objective performance management.
• Providing leadership and oversight for the DSS - sourcing team accountable for sourcing processes with external service providers.
• Being responsible for the alignment of category strategies within the DSS - sourcing team.
• Advising line of business on future best practices by leveraging on risk, performance and relationship lessons learned.
• Supervise the category strategies that the team is category lead on.
• Taking lead in and actively influence continuous improvement initiatives that will generate comprehensive processes; delineate roles/responsibilities; and promote quality.
• Responsible for the request for outsourcing process.
• Refine the Vendor evaluation process in collaboration across DSS that provide a vendor overview of performance.
• Support and be responsible for the team in their vendor evaluation.
• Enabling the vendor selection.
• Driving the contract process (initiation, negotiation, execution, and scope changes) for master service agreements as well as monetary agreements i.e., task orders/statement of works and change orders.

Furthermore, this role will play an important part in the further development of the global outsourcing, contract management and vendor governance processes together with the entire DSS team and partners in R&D, Legal, IT&D, Finance, Compliance & Risk, QA, and Global Procurement.

Experience

• 8-10 years of experience from clinical outsourcing in the bio-pharmaceutical industry or from a contract research organization or other relevant clinical services providers
• +7 years’ experience in a multidisciplinary environment or line function
• +5 years ‘experience with people management, preferably in a matrix environment
• + 3 years’ experience with cross-functional team leadership
• Multisite or international experience is preferred.
• Well-founded negotiation and vendor management experience
• Strong knowledge in process management
• In-depth knowledge and understanding of clinical drug development.
• Solid experience with working in a matrixed business environment, leading multiple commitments and collaborators while prioritizing conflicting demands, maintaining focus on the objective, and providing high quality service to both internal and external partners.
• International experience is preferred.

Skills and personal competencies

• Well-founded leadership skills, with the ability to communicate and interact with senior management and influence without authority.
• Capable of using creative yet pragmatic problem-solving approaches to cut through ambiguity, complexity, and deliver tangible results.
• Ability to build strong team member relationships, drive employee engagement, and lead indirectly to ensure connectivity across multiple functions and management levels.
• Powerful communicator with the ability to consolidate and convey complex information with a clear voice.
• Expertise in creating and delivering effective oral presentations and educating partners.
• Strong communication skills in English
• Superior stakeholder management skills, including building trusting relationships.
• Active listener with excellent analytical and documentation skills ensuring attention to detail and the highest level of accuracy.
• Hands-on mentality, and a standout colleague but also able to work highly independently.
• Determined and a dedicated colleague with a pragmatic business approach and thrive with running a wide range of collaborators and tasks and the ability to work both collaboratively and autonomously.
• Comfortable in a fast-paced expanding company environment and able to adjust workload based upon changing priorities.
• Self-motivated, thorough, and willing to accept temporary responsibilities outside of initial job description

About You

• You are passionate about our purpose and genuinely care about our mission to transform the lives of patients through innovative cancer treatment
• You bring rigor and excellence to all that you do. You are a fierce believer in our rooted-in-science approach to problem-solving
• You are a generous collaborator who can work in teams with diverse backgrounds
• You are determined to do and be your best and take pride in enabling the best work of others on the team
• You are not afraid to grapple with the unknown and be innovative
• You have experience working in a fast-growing, dynamic company (or a strong desire to)
• You work hard and are not afraid to have a little fun while you do so

Locations
Genmab leverages the effectiveness of an agile working environment, when possible, for the betterment of employee work-life balance. Our offices are designed as open, community-based spaces that work to connect employees while being immersed in our state-of-the-art laboratories. Whether you’re in one of our collaboratively designed office spaces or working remotely, we thrive on connecting with each other to innovate.

About Genmab
Genmab is an international biotechnology company with a core purpose guiding its unstoppable team to strive towards improving the lives of patients through innovative and differentiated antibody therapeutics. For more than 20 years, its passionate, innovative and collaborative team has invented next-generation antibody technology platforms and leveraged translational research and data sciences, which has resulted in a proprietary pipeline including bispecific T-cell engagers, next-generation immune checkpoint modulators, effector function enhanced antibodies and antibody-drug conjugates. To help develop and deliver novel antibody therapies to patients, Genmab has formed 20+ strategic partnerships with biotechnology and pharmaceutical companies. By 2030, Genmab’s vision is to transform the lives of people with cancer and other serious diseases with Knock-Your-Socks-Off (KYSO™) antibody medicines.

Established in 1999, Genmab is headquartered in Copenhagen, Denmark with locations in Utrecht, the Netherlands, Princeton, New Jersey, U.S. and Tokyo, Japan.

Our commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion
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