Strategic Sourcing Manager

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🌐 Belgium, United Kingdom, +1 more countries – Remote

🇧🇪 Belgium – Remote 🇬🇧 United Kingdom – Remote 🇩🇪 Germany – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

🛒 Procurement

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Avantor

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10,000+ employees

Founded 1904

🏥 Healthcare

🏭 Manufacturing

💼 Consulting

Healthcare • Manufacturing • Consulting

Avantor is a leading life science tools company and global provider of mission-critical products and services to the life sciences and advanced technology industries. The company collaborates with scientists around the world to enable breakthroughs in medicine, healthcare, and technology. Avantor offers a proven portfolio of trusted, quality brands used in research, development, and production activities across more than 300,000 customer locations in 180 countries. It focuses on supporting scientific journeys through reliable products, digital solutions, innovation, and manufacturing facilities. Avantor is committed to sustainability, advancing biopharma, and enhancing scientific collaboration with digital technologies.

📋 Description

• Manage large-scale sourcing projects and critical sourcing activities, including supplier selection, performance management, contract negotiations, and risk mitigation • Develop and execute multi-year category strategies for a complex supplier portfolio • Lead end-to-end strategic sourcing initiatives, including market analysis, RFP development, competitive tendering, supplier evaluation, negotiation, contracting, and implementation • Use spend, cost, demand, and market data to identify value opportunities, build business cases, establish savings targets, and drive benefits realization • Negotiate commercial agreements optimizing total cost of ownership, service, quality, innovation, payment terms, capacity, and risk protection • Build strategic supplier relationships, establish performance expectations and scorecards, conduct business reviews, and lead corrective and continuous-improvement actions • Partner with portfolio, operations, commercial, marketing, quality, finance, legal, and other stakeholders to translate business needs into sourcing strategies • Collaborate with Global Sourcing to aggregate demand, leverage enterprise scale, and identify regional and global opportunities • Source chemicals, life-science products, raw materials, and company-branded manufacturing operations • Assess and mitigate supplier, geopolitical, capacity, quality, regulatory, and continuity risks; develop contingency and alternate-source strategies • Ensure contracts meet company standards and applicable legal, regulatory, and compliance requirements • Lead annual price negotiations and monitor commodity, inflation, supplier, and market trends • Report sourcing pipelines, financial impact, supplier performance, risks, and recommended actions to business leaders • Lead and develop sourcing professionals, where applicable • Perform other duties as assigned

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in supply chain, business, finance, engineering, science, or a related field; an advanced degree is preferred • Five or more years of progressive experience in strategic sourcing, category management, procurement, or supply chain within a complex, global, or regulated environment • Demonstrated success leading competitive sourcing events, complex negotiations, supplier selection, and contract implementation • Relevant category experience in laboratory chemicals and life-science products and raw materials • Experience managing significant spend portfolios and delivering measurable savings, value creation, supplier performance, and risk-reduction outcomes • Experience with tendering chemicals and life-science products, market analysis, spend analytics, and total-cost-of-ownership models • Strategic and commercial mindset connecting sourcing decisions to growth, margin, working capital, quality, and supply resilience • Advanced negotiation, influencing, and relationship-management skills • Strong analytical capability, including spend analysis, cost modeling, market intelligence, benchmarking, scenario analysis, and financial business cases • Knowledge of category management, strategic sourcing methodologies, supplier segmentation, performance management, and risk mitigation • Ability to lead multiple complex initiatives, establish governance, manage competing priorities, and deliver results • Clear, persuasive written and verbal communication skills • Working knowledge of contract principles, international trade, procurement compliance, and relevant product or industry regulations • Proficiency with enterprise resource planning, e-sourcing, contract-management, supplier-performance, and data-visualization tools • Market knowledge of manufacturers across chemicals, reagents, raw materials, and related categories • Frequent travel required

🏖️ Benefits

• Learning experiences to support career growth and success • Diverse, equitable and inclusive culture