Procurement Manager, Advertising Agency Management (OBU)

Location: Gaithersburg, MD

Hybrid Schedule: 3 days onsite, 2 remote

Duration: 8 months

Start date: October 20th

Pay: $50.75 per hour

Procurement Manager, Advertising Agency Management (OBU)

At AstraZeneca, we turn ideas into life changing medicines. Working here means being entrepreneurial, thinking big and working together to make the impossible a reality. We're passionate about the potential of science to address the unmet needs of patients around the world. We commit to those areas where we think we can really change the course of medicine and bring big new ideas to life.  

Procurement Manager, Advertising & Media Agency Management role supports category strategy development and associated initiatives for all agencies and some key vendors for the Oncology Business Unit, with particular focus on the NA region along with Global responsibilities. Partner with franchise / function marketers to meet marketing objectives and best in class agency partnerships. Additional category and activity support as required to support the business needs.  

They are a subject matter expert in agency management, agency operations, performance management, and/or sourcing with prior experience in agency management or procurement of marketing related spend categories, preferred. They proactively partner with business team members in Marketing, Media and similar areas to develop agency strategies and lead sourcing projects, enable scope definition and demand management leading as leading supplier performance and innovation activities.  

Procurement Manager, Advertising & Media Agency Management for the Oncology Business Unit will be responsible for:  

• Category Management and Vendor Management supporting activities and operational practices driving performance.  
• Collaborating on the OBU specifics for development of regional and global strategy execution recommendations  
• Support the implementation of the broader agency strategies and holding company approach and proactively identifies alignments across larger OBU portfolio  
• Establishing strong relationships with key partners and agencies to drive improvement across service, quality, timeliness and outcomes  
• Supplier Analysis & Management; including QBRs, reporting, dashboards, surveys amongst other activities  
• Reporting and Analytics across multiple systems and data sets; including but not limited to Financial, Spend Analysis, Consumption/Demand analysis.  
• Analyzing and communicating patterns to identify new opportunities for value creation and turn data into concrete insights, decisions, and outcomes  
• Lead compliance, governance, and value tracking activities  
• Developing a comprehensive understanding of broader supplier and industry trends and dynamics  
• Facilitate and implement agency/supplier relationship management programs that span multiple AZ OBU areas in close partnership with key business leaders and strategies  
• Leads day to day procurement operational practices while balancing the responsibilities of various business areas, vendors, analytics and planning  
• Lead Sourcing-driven activities, negotiations, support peak contracting and reviews, including Project Management  
• Effectively guiding cross-functional teams in selecting agency and supplier partners that deliver best total value for AZ aligned to the OBU strategy  
• Collaborating with business partners and agency partners to create productive performance-based reviews  

Knowledge, Skills, & Abilities:  

• Curious, passionate, self-starter with strong business partnering orientation  
• High integrity and work ethics – AZ values  
• Highly collaborative and agile team member  
• Must be knowledgeable of and experienced in the successful implementation of Advertising Strategic Sourcing and/or Agency Management standard methodologies  
• Shown project management experience including balancing varied priorities across multiple timelines and collaborator groups  
• Strong ability to analyze situations and resolve complex issues using data and analytics, including power BI and other systems/tools  
• Growth mindset and partnership approach towards suppliers  
• Experience in working with business leaders in formulating and completing business strategy  
• Comfortable delivering in a large, complex, and matrixed organization  
• Able to gain trust and influence others  
• Can deliver professional and effective communications that are persuasive, and result in positive impact on the business  

Qualifications:  

• Minimum of 4 years agency or procurement experience in a procurement/sourcing environment, agency, vendor management or agency management/operations role  
• Solid experience and subject matter expertise in marketing related spend categories and activities  
• Clear understanding of holding company structure  
• Bachelor’s Degree is required  
• Prior agency management experience is preferred, strategic sourcing, vendor management, agency operations, agency management.  
• Previous work in the Advertising or Media Agency industry is preferred, but not required  
• Works indirectly for the OBU Advertising and Media Category Director and Other Procurement Leaders and teams  

Why AstraZeneca?  

At AstraZeneca when we see an opportunity for change, we seize it and make it happen, because any opportunity no matter how small, can be the start of something big. Delivering life-changing medicines is about being entrepreneurial - finding those moments and recognizing their potential. Join us on our journey of building a new kind of organization to reset expectations of what a bio-pharmaceutical company can be. This means we’re opening new ways to work, groundbreaking innovative methods and bringing unexpected teams together. Interested? Come and join our journey.  

Next Steps – Apply today!  

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