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At Illumina, we are expanding access to genomic technology to realize health equity for billions of people around the world. Our efforts enable life-changing discoveries that are transforming human health through the early detection and diagnosis of diseases and new treatment options for patients.
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Position Summary:
An exciting Supplier management leadership opportunity with a premier fast-growing biotech and a global leader in genetic sequencing. This role will shape the supply chain of Illumina’s instruments and consumables, thus shaping the efficiency of genetic sequencing technology overall to allow for mass scale adoption, maximizing the benefits of genetic information for all.
In this role, you are seen as the leader and subject matter expert, and have a deep understanding of the supply market, Illumina products, and requirements. You will have the opportunity to apply your expert knowledge to solve problems while working on more complex supply chain problems.
Tasks and Responsibilities:
- Lead, mentor, and develop the SRM(Supplier Relationship Management) team to enhance their skills and performance.
- Assign tasks and responsibilities to team members based on their strengths and project needs.
- Foster a collaborative environment within the team and with other departments.
- Use data analytics to drive improvements in procurement processes.
- Track and report on key procurement KPIs (Key Performance Indicators).
- Lead sustaining sourcing activities for on-market products.
- Provide functional leadership and direction for sustaining products.
- Lead the sustaining roadmap creation and implementation of category strategies for assigned categories. Evaluates competitive alternatives. Obtains approval for strategies from senior executive stakeholders.
- Negotiate various types of agreements (i.e., supply, scheduling, consignment, statement of work, CDAs, etc.) achieving favorable terms that mitigate business risks and protect Illumina’s IP while reducing product cost and inventory levels.
- Establishes and leads Governance processes with Suppliers to reduce business risk and support manufacturing site escalations. Ensures appropriate engagement with Quality and Regulatory when implementing supplier / specification change programs.
- Leads site level / product cost reduction initiatives via value engineering, cost negotiation and resourcing efforts.
- Collaborate with suppliers to develop capabilities, supply continuity, and capacity. Full understanding of Supplier’s business continuity plans, technical risks, financial risks, etc. that may impact Illumina’s business.
- Advocate for compliance with Illumina policies and procedures.
- Lead core supplier quarterly business reviews resulting in supplier performance improvements through collaboration with R&D, Operations, and Quality. Proactively works with business partners and sponsors to align key messages with Suppliers.
- Lead and manage continuous improvement initiatives across a broad business area.
- Partner with executive stakeholders to contribute to the development of company objectives and principals.
All listed tasks and responsibilities are deemed as essential functions to this position; however, business conditions may require reasonable accommodations for additional task and responsibilities.
Preferred Educational Background:
- Requires a minimum of 12 years of related experience with a Bachelor’s degree; or 8 years and a Master’s degree, or a PhD with 5 years of experience; or equivalent experience.
Preferred Experience & Skills:
- Strong experience in leading/managing a team or department.
- Demonstrable experience of procurement and supplier management preferred.
- Strong internal stakeholder engagement including country, regional and global, ability to work cross-functionally with departments such as finance, legal, operations, and Commercial
- Strong ability to motivate, mentor, and develop a Procurement team.
- Ability to work with ambiguity
- Self-motivated and ambitious
- Able to work on their own and solve own problems
- Strategic thinker; anticipates and develops business and regulatory opportunities and priorities for future action while also executing on concrete business objectives. Links plans to organization strategies.
- Broad expertise that can be applied to a range of business areas. Customer focused, able to collaborate and influence others to drive actions to meet business needs while maintaining a positive, professional outlook. Comfortable challenging status-quo in order to improve processes.
- Flair for creating effective, cross functional networks involving coordination among groups.
- Strong analytical skills that allow the successful candidate to extract core data from a variety of sources, draw conclusions and insights, and translate those insights into actions.
- Ability to deal effectively with pressure, multiple tasks, deadlines, and rapidly changing priorities.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills with requisite interpersonal skills to partner, collaborate and build relationships with business partners, suppliers, and regional teams.
- Facilitates meetings effectively ensuring that communication styles are appropriate given the differing needs of culturally diverse, global teams.
- Solid understanding of industry financial / category trends and leverage these to improve Illumina’s supply chain.
- Aptitude to understand suppliers key cost drivers, interpret basic financial and balance sheet reporting, and provide recommendations.
- Strong negotiator; ability to negotiate the best deal for ILMN and influence upward.
- International sourcing and supplier management experience; preferably in area of responsibility.
- Ability to travel up to 25% of the time; both domestic and international.
- Proficient in use of Microsoft Office (Project, Word, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint).
Illumina believes that everyone has the ability to make an impact, and we are proud to be an equal opportunity employer committed to providing employment opportunity regardless of sex, race, creed, color, gender, religion, marital status, domestic partner status, age, national origin or ancestry, physical or mental disability, medical condition, sexual orientation, pregnancy, military or veteran status, citizenship status, and genetic information.
