Director, Enabling

Job Description

Summary:

As a key leader within the Strategic Sourcing function, the individual will be tasked with managing multiple interlinked Category strategies, ensuring collective understanding of opportunities, solutioning vis a vis what is relevant to Stakeholders and ultimately tied to Companies' priorities. They as the overall leader of a team will be expected to use an enterprise mindset to deliver across category boundaries and unlock additional value. This leader is also responsible to manage the team comprised of Associate Directors and Managers, ensuring the oversight of the category life cycle, which includes the development and implementation of multi-year sourcing strategies, in addition to the ongoing management of strategic supplier relationships and performance evaluation.

Enabling Categories are comprised of Extender Workforce (Temporary Workers, Consulting), HR Services, Legal Services and Travel categories.

In partnership with Business Units and Finance, this position will be tasked with setting categories' objectives and will assume complete responsibility for their implementation. You will assist in the ongoing management of essential strategic suppliers to promote continuous improvement, address complex challenges, and uncover new opportunities that deliver outstanding value to Vertex and, ultimately, our patients. You will embody a commitment to lifelong learning, demonstrating a strong sense of curiosity and adaptability, while consistently seeking to broaden your expertise beyond your immediate remit as part of your personal development. In addition, the Director is expected to identify and drive the optimization of internal sourcing processes, workflows and interfaces in effort to reduce time of delivery and costs in support corporate objectives and industry best practices.

This position will be highly visible throughout the organization. As such, the leader must be comfortable and adept in effectively communicating with Senior leaders.

This position is based in our Boston, MA office or Paddington office, London, UK. This role requires a hybrid work schedule: 3 days in the office & 2 days remote on a weekly basis.The role is global and will require some travel to all other facilities and locations to establish / maintain key business stakeholder relationships.

Key Responsibilities:

• Enterprise Thinking, with multi categories' perspective
• Strong business partnering acumen to develop trusting and influential relationships with stakeholders, understand business objectives and challenges, bring supplier and marketplace expertise, collaborate on multi-year strategic and operational plans, and drive business outcomes.
• Develop, implement, monitor and maintain categories strategies in partnership with Business stakeholders for all related sub-categories, including continuous refreshment and improvement of category strategies to meet evolving business needs
• Own the Supplier Performance/Relationship Management process including supplier performance monitoring.
• Manage complex negotiations that often include other internal stakeholders such as Business Partners and Legal. Able to independently create comprehensive negotiation planners
• Comprehensive Demand management understanding, encompassing all stages from foundational set up and analytics, to advance forecasting and influencing demand drivers.
• Financial Acumen, with a clear understanding of TCO and willingness to explore the broader implications beyond immediate remit.
• Leads a team of 3 direct reports with a focus on developing talent and creating a high performing team environment as well as act as mentor to support Sourcing colleagues, temporary workers, etc

Required Education, Experience and Competencies:

• Bachelor's Degree and MBA required
• 10+ years of strategic sourcing experience including relevant Indirect Procurement, with multi categories' expertise - Temp, Consulting & Legal Services, HR Services and Travel
• Good understanding of the nuances associated with a regulated environment
• AI-ready mindset, passionate individual about AI opportunities and overall impact in Services area
• Embody a Can-Do- Mindset, thriving in ambiguity, while building bridges thanks to innovative solutions; Dreamer
• Strong analytical capabilities | Project management skills | Good communication and presentation skills, able to clearly articulate opinions in concise and persuasive manner
• Excellent communication and organizational skills. Comfortable interfacing and presenting to senior leadership in concise, well-planned, and clear manner.

Pay Range:

Disclosure Statement:

Flex Designation:

Flex Eligibility Status:

In this Hybrid-Eligible role, you can choose to be designated as:
1. Hybrid: work remotely up to two days per week; or select
2. On-Site: work five days per week on-site with ad hoc flexibility.

Note: The Flex status for this position is subject to Vertex's Policy on Flex @ Vertex Program and may be changed at any time.

Company Information

Vertex is a global biotechnology company that invests in scientific innovation.

Vertex is committed to equal employment opportunity and non-discrimination for all employees and qualified applicants without regard to a person's race, color, sex, gender identity or expression, age, religion, national origin, ancestry, ethnicity, disability, veteran status, genetic information, sexual orientation, marital status, or any characteristic protected under applicable law. Vertex is an E-Verify Employer in the United States. Vertex will make reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with known disabilities, in accordance with applicable law.

Any applicant requiring an accommodation in connection with the hiring process and/or to perform the essential functions of the position for which the applicant has applied should make a request to the recruiter or hiring manager, or contact Talent Acquisition at ApplicationAssistance@vrtx.com