Senior Manager, R&D Procurement, Biomarkers Category

Scorpion Therapeutics; Spring House (PA); Hybrid; USD 130,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Scorpion Therapeutics is seeking a Senior Manager, R&D Procurement in Biomarkers to lead global category strategy and supplier governance for biomarker testing, assays, and related services. You will translate science needs into market-informed sourcing plans while ensuring quality, compliance, and speed to innovation.

The role requires strong leadership, strategic thinking, and collaboration with Biomarker Development, Clinical Trial teams, and Legal/Finance to optimize partnerships and

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree is required; Master’s preferred.
• 8+ years of related experience in R&D procurement or biomarker services.
• Strong communication and presentation skills; ability to influence across functions.

Responsibilities

• Define global category strategy for Biomarkers across R&D.
• Develop sourcing and contracting approaches informed by market benchmarks.
• Manage supplier relationships, governance, and risk in biomarker services.
• Deliver savings, cost management, and supplier performance improvements.
• Leverage data analytics and GenAI tools to drive decisions.

Skills

Business acumen

Influencing

Leadership & collaboration

Communication & presentation

Spend/category/supplier management

Learning agility

Project management

Negotiation

Education

Bachelor's degree

Master’s/advanced degree

Tools

GenAI tools

Market intelligence platforms

Job description

Senior Manager, R&D Procurement, Biomarkers Category (may be based in Florida, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, or Beerse, Belgium)

Position Overview

• Develop, lead, and manage the Biomarkers category strategy supporting Innovative Medicine R&D Clinical Development.
• Translate scientific and clinical business needs into market-informed category strategies, supplier strategies, sourcing approaches, contracting pathways, and governance models to enable access to biomarker technologies while delivering procurement value, business continuity, quality, compliance, and speed to innovation.
• Partner with Biomarker Development, Clinical Trial teams, Therapeutic Area stakeholders, Partnerships/Vendor Management, Legal, Finance, Quality, Data Science/Digital partners, Global Services sourcing, and other Procurement teams.

Category Scope

• Exploratory biomarker testing and custom biomarker assay work by external labs.
• Primary/secondary biomarker assay services (direct or via Central Labs).
• Companion diagnostics and assay-related services supporting clinical development.
• Technology platforms: molecular, cellular, immunoassays, pathology, NGS, digital pathology, multi-omics, and related emerging capabilities.

Responsibilities

• Determine global business needs; develop/refresh global category strategy (guidance, supplier segmentation, preferred models, governance, contracting strategy).
• Use market intelligence/benchmarks to create value; develop sourcing and contracting approaches.
• Manage supplier relationships and governance; mitigate supplier/market/regulatory risks.
• Deliver business plan commitments (savings, cost management, cash flow, supplier management); execute category initiatives using scorecards/milestones; leverage approved data/analytics/GenAI tools.

Qualifications

• Education: Bachelor’s degree (required). Preferred: Master’s/advanced degree in sciences, business, supply chain, procurement, or related.
• Experience: Minimum 8 years related experience.
• Skills: business acumen; influencing; leadership/collaboration; strong communication/presentation; spend/category/supplier management and negotiation; learning agility; project management.

Preferred Experience/Skills

• Pharma/MedTech/clinical development/lab services/diagnostics/central lab/biomarker/CRO experience.
• Biomarkers, specialty labs, companion diagnostics, assay development, clinical trial services, central laboratories, or adjacent supply chain/R&D categories.
• Data/analytics/market intelligence and approved GenAI tool experience for sourcing/contract review/spend analytics/supplier segmentation.
• Category strategy refresh experience and cross-stakeholder partnering.
• Language: English; Travel: up to 10%.