Senior Staff Supplier Relationship

About the Role An exciting sourcing leadership opportunity with a premier fast-growing biotech and a global leader in genetic sequencing. This role shapes Illumina’s consumables supply chain and enables mass-scale adoption of genetic sequencing technology. What You'll Do

• Lead sustaining sourcing activities for on-market products and provide functional leadership and direction for sustaining products.
• Lead the sustaining roadmap creation and implementation of category strategies for assigned categories. Evaluates competitive alternatives. Obtains approval for strategies from senior executive stakeholders.
• Lead assurance of supply escalations and supplier risk mitigation management with cross-functional stakeholders/team.
• Lead strategic/promote supplier quarterly business reviews resulting in supplier performance improvements through collaboration with R&D, Operations, and Quality. Proactively works with business partners and sponsors to align key messages with Suppliers.
• Collaborate with suppliers to develop capabilities, supply continuity, and capacity. Full understanding of Supplier’s business continuity plans, technical risks, financial risks, etc. that may impact Illumina’s business.
• Lead and contribute global product/material cost reduction initiatives via value engineering, cost negotiation and resourcing efforts.
• Drive alternative supplier/part qualification with cross function stakeholders/team.
• Advocate for compliance with Illumina policies and procedures.
• Ensure system data is set up correctly for suppliers under areas of responsibility to facilitate efficient ‘Procure to Pay’ processes.
• Lead and manage continuous improvement initiatives across a broad business area.
• Partner with executive stakeholders to contribute to the development of company objectives and principals.
• Negotiate various types of agreements (i.e., supply, scheduling, consignment, statement of work, CDAs, etc.) achieving favorable terms that mitigate business risks and protect Illumina’s IP while reducing product cost and inventory levels.
• Establishes and leads Governance processes with Suppliers to reduce business risk and support manufacturing site escalations. Ensures appropriate engagement with Quality and Regulatory when implementing supplier / specification change programs. What We're Looking For
• Requires a minimum of 12 years of related experience with a Bachelor’s degree; or 8 years and a Master’s degree, or a PhD with 5 years of experience; or equivalent experience.
• Strategic thinker; anticipates and develops business and regulatory opportunities and priorities for future action while also executing on concrete business objectives. Links plans to organization strategies.
• Broad expertise that can be applied to a range of business areas. Customer focused, able to collaborate and influence others to drive actions to meet business needs while maintaining a positive, professional outlook.
• Flair for creating effective, cross functional networks involving coordination among groups.
• Strong analytical skills that allow the successful candidate to extract core data from a variety of sources, draw conclusions and insights, and translate those insights into actions.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills with requisite interpersonal skills to partner, collaborate and build relationships with business partners, suppliers, and regional teams.
• Facilitates meetings effectively ensuring that communication styles are appropriate given the differing needs of culturally diverse, global teams.
• Expert in the use of enabling systems (Ariba, SAP, Quickbase) to track progress, identify gaps, and develop plans to address.
• Solid understanding of industry financial / category trends and leverage these to improve Illumina’s supply chain.
• Aptitude to understand suppliers key cost drivers, interpret basic financial and balance sheet reporting, and provide recommendations.
• Strong negotiator; ability to negotiate the best deal for ILMN and influence upward.
• International sourcing and supplier management experience; preferably in area of responsibility.
• Ability to travel up to 25% of the time; both domestic and international.
• Proficient in use of Microsoft Office (Project, Word, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint). Nice to Have
• Preferred Educational Background: Master’s degree or PhD considered a plus.
• International experience across multiple regions. Compensation & Benefits
• Salary information not disclosed in posting. Benefits information not provided in posting.