About This Role: As an Associate Sourcing Manager, you will become a vital member of our Strategic Sourcing team, specializing in the Meetings & Events Category. In this role, you will deliver end-to-end operational sourcing and contracting execution, ensuring compliance with procurement policies and category guidance. You will own standard sourcing events, RFx execution, and supplier interactions, acting as an operational partner to stakeholders. Your focus will be on maintaining quality, timeliness, and consistency in sourcing and contracting processes. This position contributes significantly to our business by optimizing sourcing strategies, supporting supplier management, and driving process improvements. Your efforts will ensure that our meetings and events are managed efficiently and align with our organizational goals.
What You’ll Do:
- Deliver end-to-end operational sourcing and contracting execution for defined categories or request types.
- Own standard sourcing events, including RFx execution and contract completion.
- Act as an operational partner to stakeholders, ensuring quality and timeliness.
- Process standard category requests end-to-end, reviewing specifications and ensuring compliance.
- Execute sourcing for low-to-medium complexity events, including RFx execution and award.
- Design and execute RFx events, ensuring correct structures and evaluation criteria.
- Manage contracts end-to-end, ensuring execution accuracy and audit readiness.
- Ensure completeness and quality of contract documentation and data.
- Manage operational supplier performance activities for assigned suppliers.
- Own stakeholder engagement for operational sourcing and contracting activities.
- Implement process improvements within the operational scope.
Who You Are: You are a detail-oriented professional with a knack for organizing and managing multiple tasks in a fast-paced environment. Your ability to communicate effectively, both in writing and verbally, allows you to build relationships across teams and work collaboratively. You are driven by a desire to enhance processes and deliver quality results. Your proficiency in Microsoft Office supports your organizational skills and your commitment to ensuring compliance with procurement policies is steadfast. You thrive on engaging with suppliers and stakeholders, bringing a strategic mindset to sourcing and contracting activities.
Required Skills:
- Bachelor’s Degree in Business Administration, Supply Chain, Procurement, Finance, Accounting, or a related discipline.
- 3-5 years of experience in procurement or sourcing roles with responsibility for end-to-end sourcing execution, RFx events, and contract management, or equivalent experience within the Meetings & Events industry, hospitality, event operations, or related fields.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills.
- Detail-oriented, organized, and able to manage multiple tasks in a fast-paced environment.
- Proficient in Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint).
- Ability to work collaboratively and build relationships across teams.
Preferred Skills:
- Strong knowledge of the Meetings & Events industry is highly valued.
- Experience with contract review or negotiation (academic or internship projects).
- Familiarity with Meeting & Events services sourcing.
- Process improvement mindset.
Additional Employment Conditions
This role is in hybrid model of work.
Please note that the role requires a candidate to be a holder of work permit & residency in Poland.
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About Biogen Poland:
Our Warsaw office is a complex hub for local, regional and global roles. Regardless our role and reporting line we’re driven every day by our unique purpose, working passionately to change the lives of patients affected by rare and devastating diseases. This is what gives us pride, inspires us and gives us fuel to push the boundaries of innovation. We represent over 30 nationalities and celebrate the strength that comes from differences in backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives. This commitment to fostering a supportive and inclusive workplace earned us a Great Place to Work Certificate and Best Places to Work Awards consecutively since 2021 in Poland and Europe. If our mission resonates with your heart and career aspirations, we’re inviting you to join our team.
About Global Business Services (GBS):
The Global Business Services (GBS) team transforms Biogen’s business processes, scaling global operations and fueling commercial growth and innovation. GBS adds value by delivering business solutions and support services through a global delivery model, operational transparency, and best practices. Aiming to be a world-class organization, GBS excels in people, solutions, execution, and partnerships, championing a continuous improvement culture recognized across Biogen. We form a great team of individuals with drive for innovation but also team players collaborating in the spirit of respect. And if you want to take your professional development in your own hands, this is a place for you. We give you a lot of opportunities for growth on a business and social ground.
Additional Information
Benefits
Competitive Total Rewards: Base salary is determined by your experience, skills, and internal equity, complemented by an annual bonus to recognize your performance and contributions.
Comprehensive Benefits for You and Your Family: Includes life insurance, pension program contributions, mental health resources, remote work allowance, and flexible work arrangements.
Learning, Growth & Recognition: Access professional development funding, training platforms, employee referral bonuses, opportunities to contribute to impactful projects at Biogen, and social activities.
Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree in Business Administration, Supply Chain, Procurement, Finance, Accounting, or a related discipline
- 3-5 years of experience in procurement or sourcing with end-to-end sourcing execution, RFx events, and contract management, or equivalent Meetings & Events, hospitality, or event operations experience
- Strong written and verbal communication skills
- Detail-oriented, organized, and able to manage multiple tasks in a fast-paced environment
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office, including Word, Excel, and PowerPoint
- Ability to collaborate and build relationships across teams
- Strong knowledge of the Meetings & Events industry
- Experience with contract review or negotiation
- Familiarity with Meetings & Events services sourcing
- Process improvement mindset
- Holder of a work permit and residency in Poland
Biogen Compensation & Benefits Highlights
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Fair & Transparent Compensation — Pay is generally positioned as competitive and often perceived as fair across roles, with total compensation framed as strong when bonus and equity are included. Compensation sentiment is described as above-average overall, though it varies by function and business cycle.
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Equity Value & Accessibility — Equity programs are repeatedly highlighted as a meaningful part of the total package, including stock programs and an employee stock purchase plan. Equity and bonus elements are portrayed as important contributors to feeling well rewarded beyond base pay.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Time-off benefits are described as distinctive, including a year-end shutdown and a paid sabbatical after extended tenure. Vacation, holidays, sick time, and personal-significance days are also presented as supportive of work-life needs.
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What We Do
Through cutting-edge science and medicine, Biogen discovers, develops and delivers innovative therapies worldwide for people living with serious neurological and neurodegenerative diseases. Founded in 1978, Biogen is a pioneer in biotechnology and today the Company has the leading portfolio of medicines to treat multiple sclerosis, has introduced the first and only approved treatment for spinal muscular atrophy, and is at the forefront of neurology research for conditions including Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s disease and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. Biogen also manufactures and commercializes biosimilars of advanced biologics. With approximately 7000 people worldwide, we are truly a global organization, headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts, which is also home to our research operations. Our international headquarters are based in Zug, Switzerland and we have world-class manufacturing facilities in North Carolina and Denmark. We offer therapies globally through direct affiliate presence in 30 countries and a network of distribution partners in over 50 additional countries. For more information, please visit www.biogen.com. Follow us on social media – Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook, YouTube.
