Technical Sourcing Manager
About this opportunity
Your role
Achieve Sourcing execution excellence and investment project success for any technical investment larger than 2 m€ or smaller sized investments if complexity or criticality requires. Supplier market scope for Investment Projects Sourcing spans across all third-party sourcing of all architecture & engineering services, construction, and installation of laboratory, infrastructure, and production equipment needs.
Agility to achieve Sourcing execution excellence of the re-occuring technical spend such as site service, utility spend, site Capex, equipment and components, maintenance and repair, technical supply etc within the region.
Stay current and informed on the category-based market conditions, changing technologies and global market trends to help that the category strategies are up to date to be converted by the SM into successful Sourcing Strategies delivering maximum value while maintaining quality and service.
Work closely with global Category manager and global sourcing manaer to delopy the global category strategy within the region/country.
Identify, manage, and mitigate risks in the supply chain, follow market conditions and collect vendor intelligence; anticipate market trends and develop strategies. Incorporate global category strategy with close understanding of business needs.
Utilize collaborative procurement for partnering and competitive processes to assure continuous improvements in quality, service performance, and leverage the suppliers spend.
Ensure early Stakeholder involvement to better understand and align with business strategy and foster a collaborative network driving value across sites. Direct and prioritize initiatives and harmonize business and category strategies.
Lead sourcing activities including, setting-up procurement execution model and procurement plan, sourcing strategy (based on global category strategy), leading supplier qualification, bidding organization and negotiation, project follow-up in terms of quality, cost, delivery and timing, and demand bundling through supplier base optimization.
Skillfully negotiate agreements in a timely manner, manage suppliers including onboarding, segmentation, leading relationships, performance, create a collaborative environment, ensuring value and minimizing risk.
Resolve disputes and commercial issues with suppliers in conjunction with internal customers. Work with other procurement leaders to implement and maintain efficient, effective processes and systems with a focus on continuous improvement.
Manage Contracts defining good practice contract terms & conditions, administration, and termination of procurement contracts, ensuring adherence to pertinent regulatory requirements and to departmental policies, practices and procedures (SOPs, safety procedures and biosafety protocols).
Execute investment project due diligence ensuring right project setup, early Procurement involvement and maximizing the potentials from the market.
Who you are
Bachelor’s degree (an equivalent combination of education and experience may be accepted) preferably in business administration or engineering.
Minimum 15 years related experience. Procurement or Engineering working experience in multinational company related to Investment Projects sourcing in chemical, pharma or life science industry is preferred.
Fluent English speaker.
(Virtual) team management experience is a plus.
Professional communication with ability to manage interests across different skill levels along with strong intercultural insights.
Good project management skills with ability to work effectively in cross-functional and diverse teams.
Resilience & Pressure resistant with ability to fit into fast moving environments.
*내부 전보 확정 시 법인 이동이 필요한 경우, 퇴직급여 정산 또는 이전절차 및 각종 사내대출상환 절차가 필요할 수 있습니다. 내부 지원 시 해당 사항을 숙지하고 지원한 것으로 간주합니다.
Job details
How this role compares
Computed from every other active Procurement role in our database, not just this employer's listings.
We currently track 51 comparable Manager Procurement roles across 13 biopharma companies.
Salary context
3 of 51 peers report a salary range (USD, annualized)
Peers share this role's job function and a matching or adjacent seniority level -- not necessarily the same therapeutic area or country.
Where these roles are based
Top locations among the 51 comparable roles
+ 9 more countries
Seniority mix
51 of 51 peers have a known seniority level
Therapeutic area mix
0 of 51 peers have a known therapeutic area; the rest are genuinely unlabeled, not hidden
No peers with a known therapeutic area yet.
Similar opportunities
The closest matches from our peer group, ranked by how similar they are, not how well you'd qualify for them -- treat this as market context, not a guaranteed shortlist; a weak match is labeled as one below.
Notify me about similar jobs
Get an email when we spot other openings like this one – same job function, comparable seniority, roles you'd actually want to see.
How we calculate "similar"
No black box, no LLM guesswork: a deterministic score built from four normalized attributes. Here's this role's own peer group at different match levels, so you can see the mechanism, not just the result.
Every comparison starts from the same 100-point budget: 25 for working in the same function, 40 for the same therapeutic area, 20 for the same or adjacent seniority, 15 for the same country. A dimension we can't confirm on both sides contributes nothing, never a guess, never a free pass.
0 points, never a partial guess. A role we know almost nothing about beyond its function bottoms out at 25%; it never inflates to 100% just because there's little to compare against. Seniority uses a defined ladder (Associate → Manager → Associate Director → Senior → Principal → Director → Senior Director → Executive/VP) so "Director" and "Senior Director" count as adjacent, but "Director" and "Executive/VP" do not.