Assoc Director, Procurement - Transportation and Logistics

At Gilead, we’re creating a healthier world for all people. For more than 35 years, we’ve tackled diseases such as HIV, viral hepatitis, COVID-19 and cancer – working relentlessly to develop therapies that help improve lives and to ensure access to these therapies across the globe. We continue to fight against the world’s biggest health challenges, and our mission requires collaboration, determination and a relentless drive to make a difference.
 

Every member of Gilead’s team plays a critical role in the discovery and development of life-changing scientific innovations. Our employees are our greatest asset as we work to achieve our bold ambitions, and we’re looking for the next wave of passionate and ambitious people ready to make a direct impact.
 

We believe every employee deserves a great leader. People Leaders are the cornerstone to the employee experience at Gilead and Kite. As a people leader now or in the future, you are the key driver in evolving our culture and creating an environment where every employee feels included, developed and empowered to fulfil their aspirations. Join Gilead and help create possible, together.

Job Description
 

Responsibilities include but are not limited to:

• Consult with cross functional teams to lead transportation sourcing events and competitive bidding processes.
• Develop category strategies to deliver value by achieving cost savings and improving quality and service levels by identifying opportunity areas such as standardization and supplier consolidation.
• Collaborate and engage across the Global Logistics functions/regions to identify requirements and projected demand in alignment with business priorities and engage in strategic planning, target setting and action planning to deliver meaningful business impact.
• Partner with internal senior leadership to define clear performance metrics and supplier objectives which meet Gilead's business needs; including quality, reliability, innovation and cost.
• Collaborate with Supplier Risk, Inclusion, and Sustainability functions to create a standard and repeatable process to integrate business diversity and responsible procurement into an overall value proposition.
• Develop and expand carrier relationships and capabilities based on segmentation of supply base to improve capacity and service levels.  
• Develop tender roadmap and multi-year cost improvement pipeline by combining all spend information into yearly plans and long-term forecasts for costs, savings targets, and planned projects
• Classify suppliers and manage supplier relationships according to defined supplier relationship management standards to drive continuous improvement opportunities.
• Coordinate with Planning and Logistics to right size network storage utilization and freight network optimization initiatives.
• Ensure early Procurement engagement in the budgeting process to deliver against the financial goals and priorities.
• Drive year-over-year improvement in key category metrics including spend-under-contract, spend-under-strategy and spend-under-management.
• Lead sourcing strategies, vendor selection, contract negotiation, and supplier relationship management to achieve cost savings and service improvements
• Monitor and report on procurement and logistics KPIs, ensuring delivery of cost of ownership targets and service level agreements.
• Focused on continuous improvement and supplier development based on periodic reviews of freight spend, market trends and supplier performance data.
• Leverage procurement e-tools, ERP systems, and analytics to support decision-making and process automation.

Experience Requirements:

• 7+ years professional work experience plus a BS/BA in Supply Chain Management, Business, Finance or related field or 5+ years professional work experience plus a MA/MS or MBA in a corporate environment, preferably in the areas of DEI, procurement and supplier management, or corporate strategy.
• Proven track record in logistics procurement, category management, or supply chain leadership; experience with transportation, warehousing, and related categories.
• Strategic thinking, data-driven decision-making, negotiation, risk management, sustainability/ESG awareness, technology proficiency, and strong communication.
• Highly analytical and comfortable using data to identify trends and opportunities.
• Proven track record of applying procurement principles, concepts, best practices, and standards along with an in-depth knowledge of industry practices required.
• A skilled negotiator who balances commercial objectives with supplier relationships.
• Extensive knowledge and experience with procurement/spend systems data and analysis to drive decision making.
• Experience working with and leading multiple projects and teams simultaneously across a matrixed organization.

• Meets Gilead’s leadership commitments with demonstrated experience in applying these principles.

Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO)

It is the policy of Gilead Sciences, Inc. and its subsidiaries and affiliates (collectively "Gilead" or the "Company") to recruit select and employ the most qualified persons available for positions throughout the Company.  Except if otherwise provided by applicable law, all  employment actions relating to issues such as compensation, benefits, transfers, layoffs, returns from layoffs, company-sponsored training, education assistance, social and recreational programs are administered on a non-discriminatory basis (i.e. without regard to protected characteristics or prohibited grounds, which may include an individual’s gender, race, color, national origin, ancestry, religion, creed, physical or mental disability, marital status, sexual orientation, medical condition, veteran status, and age, unless such protection is prohibited by federal, state, municipal, provincial, local or other applicable laws).  Gilead also prohibits discrimination based on any other characteristics protected by applicable laws.

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