Associate Director, Regulatory Affairs Vendor Management (Boston, MA)
Vertex Pharmaceuticals
- Boston, MA
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Partner with Regulatory leadership team and key stakeholders to create and manage departmental outsourcing strategy, including ensuring business continuity.
- Develop and lead vendor oversight plan for function and provide education to ensure ongoing assessment.
- Orchestrate and participate in all aspects of vendor governance from operational to executive level.
- Create and monitor KPIs and metrics to document and measure vendor performance and value.
- Drive operational efficiency to ensure economies of scale and consolidation where possible.
- Identify and lead continuous improvement initiatives within vendor relationships, including the development of process documents to standardize process and optimize performance.
- Partner with Strategic Sourcing and OBIE on contracting process.
- Advanced knowledge of vendor management, including strategic sourcing, and financial management.
- Excellent written and oral communication skills, including well-developed presentation skills.
- Proven ability to drive conflict resolution
- Organizational skills, an ability to manage multiple priorities.
- Strong collaboration, negotiation and interpersonal skills to effectively influence internal or external stakeholders at all levels in the organization.
- General business management knowledge to assess the impact of project decisions on financial and corporate objectives.
- Ability to drive firm deadlines.
- Typically requires a Bachelor’s degree in Life Sciences or Business Administration
- Typically requires 8 years of experience or the equivalent combination of education and Experience
- Experience within the Life Sciences industry or similar