Associate Director, Procurement Lead

Role Summary

Invivyd is seeking a strategic thinker with excellent leadership skills, a deep understanding of supply chain management, and the ability to work collaboratively across departments to build the procurement function and partner cross-functionally to support the sourcing and strategic procurement needs of our growing organization. The role will be focused in the short-term on driving the existing procurement business procedures while identifying key opportunities for streamlining and process improvement in order to grow the function in parallel with growth of the company.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end procurement process (PO creation and approval through existing systems Conga, NetSuite, MedPro, etc.) including coordination with Legal, Finance and functional leadership
• Collaborate with functional budget owners to draft, negotiate and execute SOWs and contracts
• Develop & execute procurement strategies that align with the company's goals and regulatory requirements including project-specific RFI/RFP templates and processes
• Interface at all levels of the organization to resolve compliance problems and ensure transparency of all procurement activities
• Drive cost efficiency while ensuring high standards of quality, delivery, and compliance
• Lead the development and execution of processes for enforcing policies and contracts
• Manage supplier relationships and performance, including negotiations and risk assessments
• Grow procurement function in parallel with Invivyd growth and in time, lead a team to address the company's procurement needs
• Lead the process to evaluate and implement procurement technologies to support reporting and governance needs
• Develop and manage reporting, benchmarking, and analytics to support the procurement function particularly around spend categories, contract compliance, procurement performance, and supplier scorecards

Qualifications

• 8-10 years of experience with sourcing, procurement operations, procurement consulting, or business systems / operations
• Experience working in or supporting global biotech/pharma/life science teams is required
• Function specific familiarity including experience working at the bench, utilization of lab consumables and reagents, etc. important based on profile identified is preferred
• Professional certification in purchasing or supply chain is desirable, from ISM (CPSD, CPSM, CSM, CPM), from APICS (CPIM, CIRM)
• Demonstrated knowledge of relevant industry technology systems including ERP, eProcurement, Spend Analysis, and Contract Management in addition to current Conga, NetSuite & MedPro
• Agency management experience (briefing/execution/budgetary oversight) is preferred
• Knowledge and proven experience in the P2P process specifically on the PO creation activities
• The candidate must be detail oriented
• Ability to travel to the New Haven headquarters 3-4x a month

Education

Skills

• Procurement strategy
• Vendor management
• Contract negotiation
• Spend analysis
• ERP / eProcurement systems