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As the Delivery Lead for Tucson, you will be accountable for the delivery of Direct Procurement services and Business partnering support for Roche Diagnostics commercial product manufacturing operations and supply in support of DOM Operations. The role is responsible for local direct procurement operations, and is accountable for the consistent, timely supply of quality raw material, semi-finished goods and finished goods to manufacturing operations, supply chain and new product development projects. As a leadership role with significant management responsibility, the Delivery Lead Tucson is responsible for ensuring the smooth execution of all day-to-day local sourcing activities for both on-market and future products. The role drives alignment and delivery of category value that enables increased Business engagement, and an elevation of the status of Procurement within the site. 

The Opportunity

Ensure Business Alignment:   You will lead all local resources to deliver business partnering activities across all local and relevant stakeholders. Act as the primary Procurement Business Partner for the assigned site or Delivery team and for new product development, partnering with relevant stakeholders to translate their Business strategies and needs into procurement requirements for execution or consideration by the Category Management team when developing or refreshing Category Strategies. Allocate local Procurement team members to projects and procurement activities and provide guidance for delivering customer requirements. 

Maintain links between local and global activities: You are accountable for maintaining strong links between local activities, project activities and global Category teams. Lead site resources to gather requirements and input for Category Strategies and create and own an annual pipeline of initiatives, and allocating local resources for implementation of global initiatives as requested. Ensure local operational sourcing resources are executing local procurement activities in line with global Category Strategies. 

Ensure local implementation of initiatives: You lead the execution of major sourcing projects both for on-market and future products, ensuring that local Business stakeholders receive sufficient support from both global and local teams. Ensure translation of global negotiated terms into local agreements.

Develop people and Manage performance: You will coach Procurement staff and provide opportunities for professional development. Define a succession plan for the team to support career development and ensure a pipeline of talent. Manage performance and talent development for all direct functional reports and contribute to feedback to project related resources, according to Roche’s standards.

Establish effective local governance: You will ensure a robust governance structure enabling efficient decision making for the local Procurement team and relevant stakeholders with clear roles and responsibilities. Serve as the primary escalation point for internal issues and ensure resolution in a timely manner.

Maintain right to operate: You ensure compliance to defined local business and procurement processes and applicable quality standards and regulations.  Provides local view of Direct Procurement Operations process effectiveness, tracks/monitors compliance gaps, and ensures timely and effective resolution. 

Support local processes and technology deployment: You will work with the Enablement team to implement new processes and systems, ensure local needs are addressed, and support continuous improvement activities to drive additional value within the site. 

Who You Are

You have a Bachelor's Degree, Business or Life Sciences degree preferable. 

You have 5+ years of in-depth strategic and operational procurement experience with extensive knowledge of operational and transactional procurement activities. 

You have 7+ years overall business experience, including working within a regulated industry for regulated categories with familiarity of relevant legal risks and issues.

Proven leadership and management capabilities including the ability to successfully provide feedback and development support to teams and individuals.

Documented experience in leading value improvement programs.

Preferred

Post graduate business related qualification.

Life Sciences/ Medical Device/ GMP industry or Management Consulting experience.

Documented shared service center management or operational experience

*Relocation benefits are available for this posting.

The expected salary range for this position based on the primary location of Tucson, Arizona is between $124,900 and $231,900.  Actual pay will be determined based on experience, qualifications, geographic location, and other job-related factors permitted by law.  A discretionary annual bonus may be available based on individual and Company performance.  This position also qualifies for the benefits detailed at the link provided below.

Benefits

At Roche, more than 100,000 people across 100 countries are pushing back the frontiers of healthcare. Working together, we’ve become one of the world’s leading research-focused healthcare groups. Our success is built on innovation, curiosity and diversity.

Ventana Medical Systems, Inc. (Ventana), a member of the Roche Group, innovates and manufactures instruments and reagents that automate tissue processing and slide staining for cancer diagnostics. Our integrated staining, workflow management and digital pathology solutions optimize laboratory efficiency to reduce errors and support diagnosis for pathology professionals. Together with Roche, Ventana is driving personalized healthcare through accelerated drug discovery and companion diagnostics.

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