Associate Director, Capital Procurement for Animal Health
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Location: De Soto, KS 66018
Description:
Job Description
The Associate Director - Capital Procurement for Animal Health will establish sourcing strategies, drive innovation and exemplify Procurement excellence! The Associate Director will establish Capital Procurement (Construction & Equipment) Services and Execution sourcing strategies for large molecule manufacturing facilities located in North America & South America. You will lead regional category-based procurement strategies, supplier selection, contract negotiations, and supplier relationship management with key suppliers. You will drive sourcing strategies, ensure alignment and build a high-performance engagement model.
This role is ideal for Procurement Leaders with strong leadership skills along with excellent interpersonal, communication, collaboration, negotiation, analytical, and project management skills. Join a global healthcare leader focused on creating a healthier future for everyone!
Primary activities include, but are not limited to:
Education:
Required:
Preferred Experience and Skills:
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Current Employees apply HERE
Current Contingent Workers apply HERE
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Our company is committed to inclusion, ensuring that candidates can engage in a hiring process that exhibits their true capabilities. Please click here if you need an accommodation during the application or hiring process.
As an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer, we provide equal opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibit discrimination on the basis of race, color, age, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, disability status, or other applicable legally protected characteristics. As a federal contractor, we comply with all affirmative action requirements for protected veterans and individuals with disabilities. For more information about personal rights under the U.S. Equal Opportunity Employment laws, visit:
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We are proud to be a company that embraces the value of bringing together, talented, and committed people with diverse experiences, perspectives, skills and backgrounds. The fastest way to breakthrough innovation is when people with diverse ideas, broad experiences, backgrounds, and skills come together in an inclusive environment. We encourage our colleagues to respectfully challenge one another's thinking and approach problems collectively.
Learn more about your rights, including under California, Colorado and other US State Acts
U.S. Hybrid Work Model
Effective September 5, 2023, employees in office-based positions in the U.S. will be working a Hybrid work consisting of three total days on-site per week, Monday - Thursday, although the specific days may vary by site or organization, with Friday designated as a remote-working day, unless business critical tasks require an on-site presence.This Hybrid work model does not apply to, and daily in-person attendance is required for, field-based positions; facility-based, manufacturing-based, or research-based positions where the work to be performed is located at a Company site; positions covered by a collective-bargaining agreement (unless the agreement provides for hybrid work); or any other position for which the Company has determined the job requirements cannot be reasonably met working remotely. Please note, this Hybrid work model guidance also does not apply to roles that have been designated as "remote".
The Company is required to provide a reasonable estimate of the salary range for this job in certain states and cities within the United States. Final determinations with respect to salary will take into account a number of factors, which may include, but not be limited to the primary work location and the chosen candidate's relevant skills, experience, and education.
Expected US salary range:
$126,500.00 - $199,100.00
Available benefits include bonus eligibility, long term incentive if applicable, health care and other insurance benefits (for employee and family), retirement benefits, paid holidays, vacation, and sick days. A summary of benefits is listed here.
San Francisco Residents Only: We will consider qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records for employment in compliance with the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance
Los Angeles Residents Only: We will consider for employment all qualified applicants, including those with criminal histories, in a manner consistent with the requirements of applicable state and local laws, including the City of Los Angeles' Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance
Search Firm Representatives Please Read Carefully
Merck & Co., Inc., Rahway, NJ, USA, also known as Merck Sharp & Dohme LLC, Rahway, NJ, USA, does not accept unsolicited assistance from search firms for employment opportunities. All CVs / resumes submitted by search firms to any employee at our company without a valid written search agreement in place for this position will be deemed the sole property of our company. No fee will be paid in the event a candidate is hired by our company as a result of an agency referral where no pre-existing agreement is in place. Where agency agreements are in place, introductions are position specific. Please, no phone calls or emails.
Employee Status:
Regular
Relocation:
Domestic
VISA Sponsorship:
No
Travel Requirements:
10%
Flexible Work Arrangements:
Hybrid
Shift:
Not Indicated
Valid Driving License:
Yes
Hazardous Material(s):
N/A
Job Posting End Date:
04/30/2025
*A job posting is effective until 11:59:59PM on the day BEFORE the listed job posting end date. Please ensure you apply to a job posting no later than the day BEFORE the job posting end date.
The Associate Director - Capital Procurement for Animal Health will establish sourcing strategies, drive innovation and exemplify Procurement excellence! The Associate Director will establish Capital Procurement (Construction & Equipment) Services and Execution sourcing strategies for large molecule manufacturing facilities located in North America & South America. You will lead regional category-based procurement strategies, supplier selection, contract negotiations, and supplier relationship management with key suppliers. You will drive sourcing strategies, ensure alignment and build a high-performance engagement model.
This role is ideal for Procurement Leaders with strong leadership skills along with excellent interpersonal, communication, collaboration, negotiation, analytical, and project management skills. Join a global healthcare leader focused on creating a healthier future for everyone!
Primary activities include, but are not limited to:
- Performance - Drive competitive sourcing events (RFIs & RFPs) and support vendor selection, commercial negotiation, and market awareness.
- Procurement - Serve as a leader and exemplar of Sourcing Management.
- Supplier Enabled Innovation & Relationship Management - Implement Supplier Enabled Innovation with the key suppliers to foster innovation, manage supplier relationship & performance, establish a Governance Model, and ensure continuous improvement with a focus on OpEx activities.
- Miscellaneous - Incumbent may be asked to support other areas of the business including but not limited to:
- Outsourcing Manufacturing (including Network Actions): Bidding, evaluating proposals, leading make vs. buy analysis, implementing and managing Contract Management organizations.
- Business Development: Supporting the analysis, acquisition and integration of companies/products and balancing within the network.
- Departmental Projects: Supporting projects that drive our goals and metrics
Education:
- B.A. or B.S. degree preferably in Engineering, Science, or Business.
Required:
- A minimum of five (5) years of manufacturing experience. Pharmaceutical/ Large Molecule Manufacturing industry experience is highly preferred.
- Must possess the ability to work independently with minimal coaching.
Preferred Experience and Skills:
- Strong background in strategic sourcing and / or background in Capital Procurement Sourcing or Execution preferably within construction and equipment sourcing.
- Animal Health or Pharmaceutical industry experience.
- Experience managing multiple simultaneous and complex projects requiring frequent communication, organizing/time management and problem-solving skills.
- Ability to translate strategic vision into actionable plans and manage the change required to execute.
- Expert knowledge of technology sourcing activities including RFP development, bid response evaluation, and contract negotiations.
- Strong negotiating and contracting skills essential; global experience.
- High degree of flexibility and adaptability to deal with ambiguous and dynamic situation.
- Ability to work with senior management with professionalism and discretion.
- Experience working with internal legal operations.
- Demonstrated ability to work well with people from diverse disciplines
#EBRG
Current Employees apply HERE
Current Contingent Workers apply HERE
US and Puerto Rico Residents Only:
Our company is committed to inclusion, ensuring that candidates can engage in a hiring process that exhibits their true capabilities. Please click here if you need an accommodation during the application or hiring process.
As an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer, we provide equal opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibit discrimination on the basis of race, color, age, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, disability status, or other applicable legally protected characteristics. As a federal contractor, we comply with all affirmative action requirements for protected veterans and individuals with disabilities. For more information about personal rights under the U.S. Equal Opportunity Employment laws, visit:
EEOC Know Your Rights
EEOC GINA Supplement
We are proud to be a company that embraces the value of bringing together, talented, and committed people with diverse experiences, perspectives, skills and backgrounds. The fastest way to breakthrough innovation is when people with diverse ideas, broad experiences, backgrounds, and skills come together in an inclusive environment. We encourage our colleagues to respectfully challenge one another's thinking and approach problems collectively.
Learn more about your rights, including under California, Colorado and other US State Acts
U.S. Hybrid Work Model
Effective September 5, 2023, employees in office-based positions in the U.S. will be working a Hybrid work consisting of three total days on-site per week, Monday - Thursday, although the specific days may vary by site or organization, with Friday designated as a remote-working day, unless business critical tasks require an on-site presence.This Hybrid work model does not apply to, and daily in-person attendance is required for, field-based positions; facility-based, manufacturing-based, or research-based positions where the work to be performed is located at a Company site; positions covered by a collective-bargaining agreement (unless the agreement provides for hybrid work); or any other position for which the Company has determined the job requirements cannot be reasonably met working remotely. Please note, this Hybrid work model guidance also does not apply to roles that have been designated as "remote".
The Company is required to provide a reasonable estimate of the salary range for this job in certain states and cities within the United States. Final determinations with respect to salary will take into account a number of factors, which may include, but not be limited to the primary work location and the chosen candidate's relevant skills, experience, and education.
Expected US salary range:
$126,500.00 - $199,100.00
Available benefits include bonus eligibility, long term incentive if applicable, health care and other insurance benefits (for employee and family), retirement benefits, paid holidays, vacation, and sick days. A summary of benefits is listed here.
San Francisco Residents Only: We will consider qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records for employment in compliance with the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance
Los Angeles Residents Only: We will consider for employment all qualified applicants, including those with criminal histories, in a manner consistent with the requirements of applicable state and local laws, including the City of Los Angeles' Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance
Search Firm Representatives Please Read Carefully
Merck & Co., Inc., Rahway, NJ, USA, also known as Merck Sharp & Dohme LLC, Rahway, NJ, USA, does not accept unsolicited assistance from search firms for employment opportunities. All CVs / resumes submitted by search firms to any employee at our company without a valid written search agreement in place for this position will be deemed the sole property of our company. No fee will be paid in the event a candidate is hired by our company as a result of an agency referral where no pre-existing agreement is in place. Where agency agreements are in place, introductions are position specific. Please, no phone calls or emails.
Employee Status:
Regular
Relocation:
Domestic
VISA Sponsorship:
No
Travel Requirements:
10%
Flexible Work Arrangements:
Hybrid
Shift:
Not Indicated
Valid Driving License:
Yes
Hazardous Material(s):
N/A
Job Posting End Date:
04/30/2025
*A job posting is effective until 11:59:59PM on the day BEFORE the listed job posting end date. Please ensure you apply to a job posting no later than the day BEFORE the job posting end date.