Strategic Sourcing Manager
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Strategic Sourcing Manager leading global sourcing, negotiations, and supplier strategy for Avantor’s chemicals and life-science portfolio. Delivering savings, supply resilience, and growth across complex regulated markets.
Responsibilities:
- Manage large-scale sourcing projects and critical sourcing activities, including supplier selection, performance management, contract negotiations, and risk mitigation
- Develop and execute multi-year category strategies for a complex supplier portfolio
- Lead end-to-end strategic sourcing initiatives, including market analysis, RFP development, competitive tendering, supplier evaluation, negotiation, contracting, and implementation
- Use spend, cost, demand, and market data to identify value opportunities, build business cases, establish savings targets, and drive benefits realization
- Negotiate commercial agreements optimizing total cost of ownership, service, quality, innovation, payment terms, capacity, and risk protection
- Build strategic supplier relationships, establish performance expectations and scorecards, conduct business reviews, and lead corrective and continuous-improvement actions
- Partner with portfolio, operations, commercial, marketing, quality, finance, legal, and other stakeholders to translate business needs into sourcing strategies
- Collaborate with Global Sourcing to aggregate demand, leverage enterprise scale, and identify regional and global opportunities
- Source chemicals, life-science products, raw materials, and company-branded manufacturing operations
- Assess and mitigate supplier, geopolitical, capacity, quality, regulatory, and continuity risks; develop contingency and alternate-source strategies
- Ensure contracts meet company standards and applicable legal, regulatory, and compliance requirements
- Lead annual price negotiations and monitor commodity, inflation, supplier, and market trends
- Report sourcing pipelines, financial impact, supplier performance, risks, and recommended actions to business leaders
- Lead and develop sourcing professionals, where applicable
- Perform other duties as assigned
Requirements:
- Bachelor’s degree in supply chain, business, finance, engineering, science, or a related field; an advanced degree is preferred
- Five or more years of progressive experience in strategic sourcing, category management, procurement, or supply chain within a complex, global, or regulated environment
- Demonstrated success leading competitive sourcing events, complex negotiations, supplier selection, and contract implementation
- Relevant category experience in laboratory chemicals and life-science products and raw materials
- Experience managing significant spend portfolios and delivering measurable savings, value creation, supplier performance, and risk-reduction outcomes
- Experience with tendering chemicals and life-science products, market analysis, spend analytics, and total-cost-of-ownership models
- Strategic and commercial mindset connecting sourcing decisions to growth, margin, working capital, quality, and supply resilience
- Advanced negotiation, influencing, and relationship-management skills
- Strong analytical capability, including spend analysis, cost modeling, market intelligence, benchmarking, scenario analysis, and financial business cases
- Knowledge of category management, strategic sourcing methodologies, supplier segmentation, performance management, and risk mitigation
- Ability to lead multiple complex initiatives, establish governance, manage competing priorities, and deliver results
- Clear, persuasive written and verbal communication skills
- Working knowledge of contract principles, international trade, procurement compliance, and relevant product or industry regulations
- Proficiency with enterprise resource planning, e-sourcing, contract-management, supplier-performance, and data-visualization tools
- Market knowledge of manufacturers across chemicals, reagents, raw materials, and related categories
- Frequent travel required
Benefits:
- Learning experiences to support career growth and success
- Diverse, equitable and inclusive culture
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