Contract Specialist Lead, PSS Contract Management

Job Description

Job Description

Company Description

AbbVie's mission is to discover and deliver innovative medicines and solutions that solve serious health issues today and address the medical challenges of tomorrow. We strive to have a remarkable impact on people's lives across several key therapeutic areas – immunology, oncology, neuroscience, and eye care – and products and services in our Allergan Aesthetics portfolio. For more information about AbbVie, please visit us at www.abbvie.com. Follow @abbvie on X, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, LinkedIn and Tik Tok.

Job Description

Purpose

The Senior Specialist, Low Touch Procurement works within Procurement Shared Services, which provides contracting and / or sourcing direction to multiple functional areas within the company. The role supports the Low Touch Procurement Lead and is responsible for supporting, enforcing and managing the strategy at the transactional level set by the Category Management Team at the site in concert with the Corporation’s overall strategies. The position’s objective is to lead through execution of assigned transactions while deploying process efficiencies.

Responsibilities

• Understand the Organization’s approved buying channels and contracting policy for goods and services and help guide requestor’s to the appropriate buying channel Supplier Management Team.
• Support and collect due diligence information required for evaluating and approving new suppliers, in line with the Preferred Supplier Networks (PSN)
• Manage standard Procure-to-Pay intake contract requests within established Service Level metrics with administrative support for purchasing projects and supplier management (contract reviews, bid summary justifications, vendor record updates, approving Purchase Orders, data analysis)
• Works with high ethical standard, in compliance with the law and the AbbVie policies and procedures
• Support the Category Management Team strategy by enforcing the supplier preferred network, having understanding of Category Management Team initiatives / priorities, having subject matter expertise and educating stakeholders of the same
• Effectively develop and negotiate confidentiality agreements, stand alone contracts and Statements of Work and any other agreement in alignment with agreed category strategies, at a financial approved and authorized for the position
• Lead in the development, deployement and execution of process efficiency related projects that serve to improve customer experiene within the Procure-to-Pay (P2P) process
• Be a subject matter expert over Procurement processes & across all categories within the Procurement Team
• Develop & lead stakeholder educational forum around the Procurement initiatives, processes, and etc.
• Responsible for mentoring junior Procurement professionals

Qualifications

Key Stakeholders

External Vendors, Category Management Team, business partners (e.g. finance, business owners, other support functions)and leadership within the Procurement Team

Additional Information

Applicable only to applicants applying to a position in any location with pay disclosure requirements under state or local law :  ​

The compensation range described below is the range of possible base pay compensation that the Company believes in good faith it will pay for this role at the time of this posting based on the job grade for this position. Individual compensation paid within this range will depend on many factors including geographic location, and we may ultimately pay more or less than the posted range. This range may be modified in the future. ​

We offer a comprehensive package of benefits including paid time off (vacation, holidays, sick),  medical / dental / vision  insurance and 401(k) to eligible employees.​

This job is eligible to participate in our short-term incentive programs. ​

Note : No amount of pay is considered to be wages or compensation until such amount is earned, vested, and determinable. The amount and availability of any bonus, commission, incentive, benefits, or any other form of compensation and benefits that are allocable to a particular employee remains in the Company's sole and absolute discretion unless and until paid and may be modified at the Company’s sole and absolute discretion, consistent with applicable law.

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