GenScript/ProBio
Procurement Specialist
Pennington, New Jersey, United States
Sponsorship not specified$60k-$90kDetected 4 days ago
NegotiationAccountingExcelSAPOperations ManagementSupply ChainProcurementERPGMPCollaborationProblem SolvingMicrosoft Office
About the role
- About ProBio: ProBio, a subsidiary of GenScript, is a global CDMO offering end-to-end services from discovery to GMP for plasmids, antibodies, and cell & gene therapies.
- We bring together multidisciplinary expertise to accelerate development and manufacturing through customized, and comprehensive services.
- The role is responsible for procurement activities related to capital expenditures, facility maintenance services, general operational purchasing, and other assigned categories.
Responsibilities
- Lead sourcing activities for capital expenditures, facility maintenance services, general operational purchasing, and other assigned categories.
- Independently manage RFIs, RFQs, RFPs, competitive bids, supplier evaluations, commercial analyses, negotiations, and award recommendations within delegated authority.
- Create, amend, monitor, reconcile, and close purchase orders for assigned categories and projects.
- Identify and implement cost savings, cost avoidance, supplier consolidation, standardization, and process-improvement opportunities.
- Support supplier onboarding, qualification, master-data maintenance, performance monitoring, relationship management, corrective actions, and issue resolution.
- Maintain accurate material master records, supplier master data, pricing records, purchasing configurations, and other procurement information within ERP, SAP, Source-to-Pay, and related systems.
- Partner with internal stakeholders to forecast requirements, support project planning, establish sourcing strategies, and address procurement risks and opportunities.
- Collaborate with Quality and other applicable functions to address supplier qualification, noncompliance, quality issues, corrective actions, and regulated-supplier requirements.
- Support internal and external audits by maintaining and providing complete procurement documentation, records, approvals, and justifications.
- Support procurement projects, process changes, system improvements, and continuous-improvement initiatives.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Supply Chain Management, Business Administration, Engineering, Finance, Operations Management, or a related field, or equivalent relevant professional experience.
- Experience supporting capital expenditures, facility maintenance services, operational purchasing, or similar indirect procurement categories.
- Strong understanding of sourcing, supplier management, contract administration, purchase requisitions, purchase orders, receiving, invoice matching, and procure-to-pay controls.
- The successful candidate must be a self-starter who can manage multiple priorities, exercise sound judgment, and drive work to completion with limited day-to-day supervision.
- Ensure required sourcing, approvals, contracts, and purchase orders are in place before suppliers begin work or receive commitments.
Nice to have
- Professional certification such as CPSM, C.P.M., CSCP, CPPB, PMP, or an equivalent procurement, supply-chain, or project-management credential.
- Examples should identify the candidate's individual role, category or project scope, systems used, stakeholders involved, decisions or actions taken, and measurable business outcomes where available.
Skills
- Minimum of three to five years of procurement, sourcing, purchasing, supply-chain, or contract-administration experience.
- Experience independently conducting RFIs, RFQs, RFPs, supplier evaluations, commercial analyses, negotiations, and award recommendations.
- Strong contract-management, negotiation, analytical, problem-solving, project-management, and change-management capabilities.
- Strong verbal, written, presentation, influencing, and cross-functional collaboration skills.
- Strong attention to detail and commitment to procurement compliance, data accuracy, documentation, and follow-through.
- Proficiency with Microsoft Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Outlook, and ERP or SAP systems.
- Willingness and ability to work on-site five days per week as an essential requirement of the position.
- Experience in a GMP-regulated environment and familiarity with quality systems and regulated-supplier requirements.
- Experience with SAP, Source-to-Pay, eProcurement, contract-management, supplier-management, or spend-analysis platforms.
- Experience maintaining material master data, supplier master data, pricing records, and purchasing configurations.
- What to Expect in the Selection Process
- Candidates should not disclose confidential or proprietary information belonging to current or former employers.
Compensation
- Negotiate and administer Master Service Agreements, annual contracts, statements of work, and related commercial documents while coordinating final review and approval with the Procurement Manager, Legal, and applicable stakeholders.
Benefits
- include medical, dental, and vision insurance as well as a 401(k) retirement plan with a company match that vests fully on day one.
- We offer paid parental leave after just three (3) months of employment, and a paid time off policy that includes vacation time, personal time, sick time, floating holidays, and company holidays.
Company info
- ProBio, a subsidiary of GenScript, is a global CDMO offering end-to-end services from discovery to GMP for plasmids, antibodies, and cell & gene therapies.
- ProBio has established companies in the United States, the Netherlands, South Korea, and China (Hong Kong, Shanghai, and Nanjing) and other regions to serve global customers, and has helped customers in the United States, Europe, Asia Pacific and other regions obtain more than 150 IND approvals since October 2017.
- Guided by its mission to Make People and Nature Healthier Through Biotechnology, and its role as a well-recognized biotechnology company, GenScript has a team of approximately 6,165 employees and has served more than 200,000 customers across over 100 countries and regions.
Equal opportunity
- equal opportunity/affirmative action emplo
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