Senior Outsourcing Manager, Development Strategic Sourcing

The Role

We are looking to hire a new team member for our Development Strategic Sourcing Unit. The Senior Outsourcing Manager will drive, collaborate, and advise on the end-to-end contracting & outsourcing process for clinical trial services with external service providers within e.g., clinical drug supply, IRT etc.

This person will support the building of contracting & outsourcing strategies and creation of leading practices which improve values, minimize risk & cost, ensure quality, and create scalability in a dynamic and growing business demand setting. This individual will be reporting to the Associate Director, Development Strategic Sourcing based in Copenhagen, Denmark.

This role can be filled in Copenhagen, Denmark or Princeton, New Jersey US and is hybrid, which means that you must be 60% on-site.

Responsibilities

The key accountability of this role is to lead the end-to-end contracting & outsourcing process, in close collaboration with departments in Clinical Development to facilitate timely, fit for purpose contracts, by:

• driving the request for outsourcing process
• driving the vendor evaluation
• enabling the vendor selection
• driving the contract process (initiation, negotiation, execution, and scope changes) for master service agreements as well as monetary agreements i.e., task orders/statement of works and change orders
• leading vendor governance including performance management i.e., chair the provider-Genmab Executive Steering Committee, drive contract issue escalation and resolution as well as risk mitigation and process optimization, identify improvement and trending activities for better collaboration with the provider
• handling category strategies within area of responsibilities
• advising line on business on future best practices by leveraging on risk, performance and relationship lessons learned
• chipping in to the development, implementation, and maintenance of outsourcing strategies within the assigned service categories.

Furthermore, this role will play an important part in the further development of the global outsourcing, contract management and vendor governance processes together with the entire Development Strategic Sourcing team and collaborators in R&D, Legal, IT, Finance, Compliance, QA, and Procurement.

Requirements

• Advanced degree or equivalent experience in life sciences is preferred

• Fluent English (oral and written)

• 6-8 years’ experience from clinical outsourcing/contracting in the bio-pharmaceutical industry or from a contract research organization or other relevant clinical service provider

• Well-founded negotiation, contracts, and vendor management experience
• Solid knowledge and understanding of clinical drug development
• Firm experience with working in a matrixed business environment, running multiple commitments and partners while prioritizing conflicting demands, maintaining focus on the objective, and providing high quality service to both internal and external collaborators
• International experience is preferred  

• Strong communicator with the ability to consolidate and convey complex information with a clear voice
• Robust in creating and delivering effective oral presentations and educating team members
• Solid interpersonal and communication skills in English
• Superior collaborator management skills, including building trusting relationships
• Active listener with excellent analytical and documentation skills ensuring attention to detail and the highest level of accuracy
• Hands-on mentality, and a standout colleague but also able to work independently
• Hard-working and a dedicated colleague with a pragmatic business approach and thrive with leading a wide range of partners and tasks and the ability to work both collaboratively and autonomously
• Comfortable in a fast-paced expanding company environment and able to adjust workload based upon changing priorities
• Self-motivated, diligent, and willing to accept temporary responsibilities outside of initial job description

About You

• You are passionate about our purpose and genuinely care about our mission to transform the lives of patients through innovative cancer treatment
• You bring rigor and excellence to all that you do. You are a fierce believer in our rooted-in-science approach to problem-solving
• You are a generous collaborator who can work in teams with diverse backgrounds
• You are determined to do and be your best and take pride in enabling the best work of others on the team
• You are not afraid to grapple with the unknown and be innovative
• You have experience working in a fast-growing, dynamic company (or a strong desire to)
• You work hard and are not afraid to have a little fun while you do so

Locations

Genmab leverages the effectiveness of an agile working environment, when possible, for the betterment of employee work-life balance. Our offices are designed as open, community-based spaces that work to connect employees while being immersed in our state-of-the-art laboratories. Whether you’re in one of our collaboratively designed office spaces or working remotely, we thrive on connecting with each other to innovate.