Senior Manager - Global Procurement Agile Sourcing

Bristol Myers Squibb; Warszawa; On-site; PLN 250,000 - 420,000; Full time

Job summary

Bristol Myers Squibb is seeking a Senior Manager, PDS, Agile Sourcing to oversee source-to-contract operations across key categories. You will coordinate with matrix teams to optimize sourcing, contracting, and purchasing strategies in support of business goals.

The role requires strong procurement expertise, contract management skills, and collaboration with legal, cybersecurity, and quality partners to ensure compliant, effective contracting across projects.

Qualifications

• BS/BA in sciences or equivalent.
• 4–6 years of procurement, sourcing and contracting experience, including MSA familiarity.
• 2–4 years of direct team management leading cross-functional, multicultural professionals.
• Expertise in procurement processes, agreement management, financial and market analysis, and strategic planning.
• Experience drafting, negotiating buy-side contracts in pharma/biotech.
• Demonstrated leadership and growth mindset in a management role.

Responsibilities

• Support source-to-contract operations across PDS categories.
• Lead cross-functional teams to optimize procurement activities.
• Develop knowledge of PDS categories, suppliers, and workflows.
• Implement contract terms, negotiation best practices, and SOPs.
• Oversee end-to-end sourcing and contracting for operations across commercial categories.
• Lead and manage complex RFI/RFP processes and bid evaluations.
• Guide contract lifecycle from drafting to signatures and storage.
• Coordinate with legal, cybersecurity, data privacy, and quality teams for contract compliance.

Skills

Procurement

Sourcing

Contracting

Negotiation

Leadership

Pharma knowledge

Education

B.S./B.A. Sciences

Job description

At Bristol Myers Squibb, our employees often ask, "Who are you working for?"-a question that fuels collaboration, accountability, and urgency in our work. Our purpose-driven culture inspires us to discover, develop, and deliver innovative medicines to prevail over serious diseases. We offer uniquely interesting and meaningful work, opportunities for growth, and a supportive environment that values inclusion, wellbeing, flexibility, and comprehensive benefits. This is work that transforms the lives of patients, and the careers of those who do it.

Description

The Senior Manager, PDS, Agile Sourcing, will be part of a team that is responsible for contributing to and overseeing the delivery of source-to-contract operations across various PDS categories. This role will be focused on Categories such as External Manufacturing, Logistics, Product Development and/or Direct Materials. The Senior Manager will work with matrix teams of resources to ensure effective sourcing, negotiating, contracting and purchasing activities to optimize buying power and achieve desired procurement outcomes in support of our company's goals. This position will report to the Director, PDS Agile Sourcing.

• Support the source-to-contract operations across PDS categories
• Foster cross-functional proficiencies of resources and procurement categories
• Develop and leverage a deep knowledge of the PDS Categories, Suppliers and Ways of working.
• Implement contract terms and conditions, negotiation best practices and BMS Standard Operating Procedures
• Oversee and lead the end-to-end sourcing and contracting process in support of operations across the commercial categories
• Act as an expert facilitator to fully manage and lead complex sourcing events from end-to-end (RFI/RFP): lead the preparation and solicitation of competitive bids, quotations and proposals; evaluate competitive offerings; assess supplier product and pricing information; conduct negotiations and communicate decision externally
• Act as an expert facilitator to drive and manage the contract through the contract life cycle from fully understanding the complexities of the deal to choosing and preparing the correct template to drafting, negotiation and managing redlines through finalization, distribution, signatures and storage
• Coordinate closely with business stakeholders, procurement partners and subject matter experts such as legal and others (Cybersecurity / IT, Data Privacy, Quality, etc. as applicable) to incorporate feedback to ensure timely, compliant, and effective facilitation of contracts
• Maintain awareness of pre-contracting steps, including underlying BMS policies and procedures related to the contracts and the contracted activities within scope
• Act as escalation point within Agile Sourcing team to provide guidance and answer questions on substantive sourcing and contracting related issues
• Performance Management & Continuous Improvement for Source to Contract
• Review team performance and identify trends for continuous improvement to improve operational effectiveness, standardization and process simplification
• Partner and share best practices and learnings with Agile Sourcing team to ensure business needs are proactively met in an aligned, consistent and collaborative manner across functional areas and in a manner that is complaint with BMS Standard Operating Procedures and protocols
• Work with procurement and legal to find ways to improve the contracting process, including recommending updates to contract templates, collecting fallback language and developing guidance for negotiations
• Participate in or lead continuous improvement initiatives within procurement to strengthen our contracting and sourcing outcomes

Qualifications & Experience

• B.S./B.A. Sciences
• Minimum of 4-6 years prior related experience, including relevant category procurement, sourcing and contracting experience, including but not limited to familiarity with Master Services Agreements
• Minimum 2-4 years prior experience managing a direct team, with ability to provide close leadership and support to large groups of cross-functional, multi-cultural professionals
• Expertise in procurement process, agreement management, financial analysis, market analysis, supplier analysis, supplier diversity, supplier management, technology utilization, strategic planning and integrated supply chain experience
• Experience in contract construction, terms and conditions, with strong preference for working knowledge of facilitating, drafting and negotiating buy-side and other in-scope contracts in the pharma/biotech industry
• Direct people management experience with demonstrated competencies in growth mindset strategies, ment