Market Supplier Dev Dir

<h2>Job Overview:</h2><ul><li style="margin-left: 27.0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; color: black;">Achieves annual sourcing plan and vendor market strategies for assigned categories/commodities; Provides general intelligence on key competitors in vendors’ market</span></li><li style="margin-left: 27.0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; color: black;"> Establishes, nurtures and grows vendor/manufacturer relationships at the appropriate levels to meet supply chain needs globally</span></li><li style="margin-left: .25in;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; color: black;"> Develops partnerships and strategy with key vendor accounts</span></li><li style="margin-left: .25in;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; color: black;"> Provides weekly update reports to management.</span></li><li style="margin-left: .25in;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; color: black;"> Develops internal communication cycle to achieve objectives and sourcing plan; Follows up on leads.</span></li><li style="margin-left: .25in;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; color: black;"> Evaluates vendor capabilities and differentiation frameworks against internal product/supply needs and industry development opportunities</span></li><li style="margin-left: .25in;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; color: black;"> Recognizes and communicates vendor development opportunities and support for other business units.</span></li><li style="margin-left: .25in;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; color: black;"> Collaborates with companywide resources to achieve business objectives in supplier redundancy, cost reductions, etc.</span></li><li style="margin-left: .25in;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; color: black;"> Organizes and hosts vendor/manufacturer site visits for diligence, qualification and review/acceptance.</span></li><li style="margin-left: .25in;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; color: black;"> Responsible for global Opportunity Management and communicates pipeline forecast for supply needs longer term</span></li><li style="margin-left: .25in;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; color: black;"> Collaborates effectively with operations leadership from other LDD units to bring potential opportunities to their attention and to identify and win multi-unit projects.</span></li><li style="margin-left: .25in;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; color: black;"> Assists in determining cost savings and volume potential for multi-sourced products in high risk commodity markets.</span></li><li style="margin-left: .25in;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; color: black;">Participates in proposal scope and RFI development as appropriate.</span></li><li style="margin: 0in 0in .0001pt 22.5pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; color: black;">Supports bidding procedures with commodity BRM, and assists with negotiations</span><span style="color: black;">.</span></li><li style="margin-left: .25in;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; color: black;"> Maintains frequent personal contact with internal operations. </span></li><li style="margin-left: .25in;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; color: black;"> Participates in corporate teams to build relationships with key vendor accounts.</span></li><li style="margin-left: .25in;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; color: black;"> Supports an established sourcing leadership where appropriate.</span></li></ul><h2>Education/Qualifications:</h2><p style="margin-top: 0in;"><strong><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; color: windowtext;">Recommended:</span></strong></p><p style="margin-top: 0in;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; color: black;">Bachelor’s degree in sourcing, manufacturing, supply chain or business field preferred</span></p><p style="margin-top: 0in;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; color: black;">- Advanced industry knowledge</span></p><p style="margin-top: 0in;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; color: black;">- Demonstrated communication and technical retention skills</span></p><p style="margin-top: 0in;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; color: black;">- Ability to manage difficult customer and/or financial situations</span></p><p style="margin-top: 0in;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; color: black;">- Ability to differentiate LabCorp from competitors</span></p><p style="margin-top: 0in;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; color: black;">- Strong working relationship with internal LabCorp management and global leadership</span></p><p style="margin-top: 0in;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; color: black;">- Demonstrated ability to develop and implement new manufacturer source and relationship opportunities</span></p><h2>Experience:</h2><p style="margin-top: 0in;"><strong><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; color: windowtext;">Minimum Required: </span></strong></p><p style="margin-top: 0in;"><strong><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; color: windowtext;"> </span></strong></p><p style="margin-top: 0in;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; color: black;">4-5 years manufacturing development or product qualification expertise (or relevant) experience sourcing direct materials for pharmaceutical and biotech section with direct interaction with mid-level and executive level decision makers.  Deep experience and relationships in the supplier/manufacturer community that support lab consumables, categories that support clinical trials and contractors/sub-contractors that provide supply to large biopharma companies.</span></p><p style="margin: 0in 0in .0001pt .25in;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; color: windowtext;"> </span></p>