Director R&D Procurement - Clinical Supply
About this opportunity
We Are Teva
We’re Teva, a leading innovative biopharmaceutical company, enabled by a world-class generics business. Whether it’s innovating in the fields of neuroscience and immunology or delivering high-quality medicine worldwide, we’re dedicated to addressing patients’ needs now and in the future. Here, you will be part of a high-performing, inclusive culture that values fresh thinking and collaboration. You'll have the room to grow, the flexibility to balance life with work, and the opportunity to better health worldwide, together.
Our Team, Your Impact
The Director R&D Procurement – Clinical Supply is a strategic procurement leader responsible for leading and advancing category management across Teva’s global Clinical Supply organization. The role partners with clinical packaging and labeling, distribution and logistics, comparator drug sourcing, clinical supply services, stakeholders to translate business priorities, portfolio needs, market intelligence, and supplier capabilities into procurement strategies that drive value, improve supplier performance, strengthen resilience, and support business objectives.
Reporting to the Sr. Director Global Procurement – Research & Development, this leader provides strategic direction to category managers and sourcing professionals across clinical services, technologies, clinical supply-related services, and related categories. The role is accountable for developing category strategies, strengthening strategic supplier partnerships, building productivity roadmaps, improving supplier resilience and business continuity, and advancing Procurement’s role as a trusted business partner.
The successful candidate is a strategic procurement leader who can operate across a complex global pharmaceutical environment, balancing category strategy, stakeholder influence, supplier partnership development, team leadership, and continuous improvement to further mature Procurement as a trusted value-creation partner.
How You’ll Spend Your Day
Business Partnering & Category Strategy
Partner with Clinical Supply and R&D leaders to align procurement strategies with business priorities, portfolio needs, and long-term objectives.
Lead category strategy development, prioritization, and multi-year roadmaps across clinical supply categories, translating business needs, spend insights, market intelligence, and supplier capabilities into actionable strategies.
Serve as the Procurement category expert, providing strategic insights and recommendations to influence business decisions.
Category Analytics, Productivity & Value Creation
Develop category productivity roadmaps that identify opportunities to optimize cost, improve supplier performance, reduce risk, and create measurable business value.
Leverage spend analytics, supplier insights, benchmarking, and market intelligence to identify opportunities and guide strategic decisions.
Establish value plans, performance measures, and reporting mechanisms to demonstrate category impact and outcomes.
Strategic Supplier Management & Market Intelligence
Develop strategic supplier relationship strategies for critical clinical supply suppliers, including supplier segmentation, governance models, performance expectations, and executive engagement.
Maintain external market intelligence and supplier capability perspectives across CROs, FSP/FSO models, central laboratories, biometrics providers, clinical technology providers, and related services to inform category strategies and business decisions.
Leverage supplier insights to identify innovation opportunities, strengthen partnerships, and improve business outcomes.
Procurement Leadership & Capability Development
Provide leadership, coaching, and strategic direction to category managers and sourcing professionals, establishing priorities, accountability, and capability growth.
Build scalable category management practices, governance models, and ways of working that strengthen Procurement effectiveness and stakeholder engagement.
Drive change and continuous improvement to advance Procurement’s role as a strategic business partner.
Strategic Sourcing & Commercial Enablement
Ensure category strategies translate into effective sourcing approaches, supplier strategies, and commercial outcomes in partnership with sourcing, Legal, Finance, Quality, Regulatory, and business stakeholders.
Balance cost, quality, speed, flexibility, innovation, compliance, supplier sustainability, and resilience when developing procurement strategies and recommendations.
Your Skills and Experience
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE & EXPERTISE
10+ years of progressive experience in procurement, category management, strategic sourcing, supplier relationship management, or related disciplines, with significant experience supporting clinical supply, R&D, life sciences, pharmaceuticals, biotechnology, or other regulated environments.
Demonstrated success developing category strategies, supplier strategies, productivity initiatives, and business partnerships within complex global organizations.
Strong understanding of pharmaceutical drug development, clinical development operating models, outsourcing strategies, supplier ecosystems, and regulatory requirements.
Proven ability to influence senior stakeholders, translate business priorities into procurement strategies, and deliver measurable business value through strong commercial, analytical, and strategic capabilities.
LEADERSHIP COMPETENCIES & SKILLS
Strategic procurement leader who connects business priorities, supplier ecosystems, and market intelligence to create value.
Trusted business partner who influences stakeholders, challenges constructively, and enables effective decision-making.
Strong category, commercial, analytical, and people leadership capabilities with the ability to drive change, build capability, and deliver outcomes through others.
EDUCATION & EXPERIENCE
Bachelor’s degree required; advanced degree preferred in Business, Supply Chain, Life Sciences, Finance, or related field.
Master’s degree with 8+ years of relevant experience, or Bachelor’s degree with 10+ years of relevant experience.
Minimum five years of direct people leadership, team leadership, and/or significant matrix leadership experience.
Also Good to Have
Experience supporting clinical supply categories, including CROs, FSP/FSO models, central labs, biometrics providers, clinical technology providers, patient recruitment vendors, clinical supply providers, or related services.
Experience building category management capabilities, strategic supplier relationship programs, supplier governance models, or procurement operating models.
Experience supporting global R&D organizations within complex pharmaceutical environments and leveraging procurement technologies, analytics, or digital capabilities.
Salary Range
How We’ll Take Care of You
We offer a competitive benefits package, including:
Comprehensive Health Insurance: Medical, Dental, Vision, and Prescription coverage starting on the first day of employment, providing the employee enrolls.
Retirement Savings: 401(k) with employer match, up to 6% and an annual 3.75% Defined Contribution to the 401k plan.
Time Off: Paid Time Off including vacation, sick/safe time, caretaker time and holidays.
Life and Disability Protection: Company paid Life and Disability insurance.
Additional benefits include, but are not limited to, Employee Assistance Program, Employee Stock Purchase Plan, Tuition Assistance, Flexible Spending Accounts, Health Savings Account, Life Style Spending Account, Volunteer Time Off, Paid Parental Leave, if eligible , Family Building Benefits, Virtual Physical Therapy, Accident, Critical Illness and Hospital Indemnity Insurances, Identity Theft Protection, Legal Plan, Voluntary Life Insurance and Long Term Disability and more.
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Teva Pharmaceuticals is committed to equal opportunity in employment. It is Teva's policy that equal employment opportunity be provided without regard to age, race, creed, color, religion, sex, disability, pregnancy, medical condition, genetic information, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, ancestry, national or ethnic origin, citizenship status, military status or status as a disabled or protected veteran, or any legally recognized status entitled to protection under applicable federal, state, or local laws.
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