firstPRO is now accepting resumes for a Operational Excellence Lead role in Boston, MA. This is a 6+month contract and onsite once per week.
ACCOUNTABILITIES: • Liaise with R&D business (requestor) to define the precise nature of goods and/or services required. • Translate the demand specifications into contractable terms, working with R&D, legal and GREFP staff as appropriate. • Test contractually defined requirements and call-off arrangements with the original requestor. Understand and execute contracts per category strategies agreed between R&D and procurement. • Provide qualitative and quantitative input data to External Business Management function regarding the internal service (GREFP) and external supplier service delivery. • Ensure that all R&D business requirements are clearly defined and documented prior to the creation of contracts. • Maintain a register of historic demand specifications by contract. • Act as a bridge between R&D business, legal and GREFP regarding the nature of supplier services provided. • Support R&D with the contract management and reporting of activities such as MSAs, SOWs, POs, and consulting engagements • Registers and updates third-party suppliers through Ariba and MDG systems • Works with Legal, Compliance, Procurement, TBS etc. to ensure appropriate agreements are drafted, negotiated and executed • Ensure compliance with Takeda's requirements and policies by managing all quotes from Contract Research Organizations (CROs) and ensuring proper terms and conditions and providing guidance to stakeholders about policies and regulations, including but not limited to Procurement Policy, TPRM policy, contract policy, Signature authority Policy, quality requirement (as relevant), Sunshine act (as relevant), SOX requirements • Oversee proper purchase order (PO) approval and management, invoice reconciliation, and accrual reporting related to contracts
Technical/Functional Skills: • Strong understanding of drug discovery and/or development activities in context of line functions and project teams. • Strong project management skills and demonstrated ability to act independently through complex cross-functional matrices. • Proactive, resourceful, self-motivated and possesses good interpersonal skills to interact professionally with all levels in the organization. • Excellent general problem solving skills and a proven ability to manage multiple projects and to simplify and organize complex tasks. • Accurate and precise communication skills are necessary with experience of international partner-ships with multiple international contributors to individual projects. • Excellent knowledge of procurement systems (Ariba, MDG, InvoiceTrack), legal system (Axxerion, templates databases), PowerBI suite, DAS, Smartsheets. • Excellent understanding of contracting requirements in line with Takeda policies • Negotiation skills (internal and external facing)
Leadership: • Enterprise level leadership with the ability to inspire, motivate and drive results • Ability to present complex information clearly and with confidence • Excellent communicator, able to persuasively convey both ideas and data, verbally and in writing • Proven skills as an effective team player who can engender credibility and confidence within and outside the company • Ability to distil complex issues and ideas down to simple comprehensible terms • Embraces and demonstrates a diversity and inclusion mindset and role models these behaviors for the organization • Ensures and encourages diversity