Associate Director leading clinical procurement and contracting operations for global clinical trials at Biogen. Focusing on operational excellence, compliance, and financial discipline.
About the role
- Vendor Management Consultant responsible for structured vendor management framework at Anthesis. Implementing strategies for cost optimization and alignment with business goals.
Responsibilities
- Implement a vendor segmentation and governance model (strategic, preferred, operational, niche vendors)
- Establish governance forums including QBRs, EBMs, and operational cadence meetings
- Define escalation, issue resolution, and accountability frameworks
- Create standard operating models for vendor engagement across IT, business, and procurement
- Support contract structuring, negotiation and renewals.
- Budget management and tracking
- Define and manage SLAs, KPIs, XLAs, and outcome-based performance models
- Drive vendor consolidation and rationalization initiatives
- Benchmark commercial models and pricing structures through established methods.
- Identify and mitigate vendor concentration and dependency risks - VRM
- Ensure alignment with security, privacy, regulatory, and compliance standards
- Support vendor risk assessments, audits, and governance reviews
- Define exit strategies and transition frameworks
- Identify cost optimization opportunities and value leakage
- Drive continuous improvement and operational efficiency
- Enable innovation partnerships with strategic vendors
- Align vendor contributions to business transformation and digital strategy
- Partner with CTO, IT, Digital, Finance, Legal, and Business Leaders
- Balance relationship management with performance accountability
Requirements
- A bachelor's degree in any relevant qualification.
- With 8–15 years’ experience in vendor management, sourcing, consulting, IT governance or transformation roles in global setup.
- Experience in multi-vendor, global delivery environments
- Proven track record in vendor consolidation, cost optimization, and value realization
- Vendor governance and supplier management
- Commercial and contract management
- Strategic negotiation
- Stakeholder management at executive level
- Risk and compliance management
- Performance management and analytics
- IT services, managed services, cloud, SaaS, digital platforms
- Enterprise transformation environments
- Procurement and sourcing frameworks
- Regulatory and compliance landscapes
Benefits
- health insurance
- retirement plans
- paid time off
- flexible work arrangements
- professional development
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