About This Role: As a Sourcing Manager for Strategic Sourcing within the Marketing & Sales team, you will play a pivotal role in driving global sourcing strategies to support international and regional marketing and sales initiatives. Your expertise will be crucial in managing multiple subcategories of spend while collaborating with cross-functional teams, business partners, and global category managers. You will execute sourcing strategies, negotiate contracts, and ensure alignment with business priorities such as savings, compliance, social responsibility, and diversity. Building and sustaining relationships with stakeholders will be key, positioning you as a trusted business partner. Your role will ensure that sourcing and supplier decisions deliver value, manage risk, and adhere to category strategies and governance standards, owning the end-to-end sourcing, contracting, and supplier outcomes for assigned categories or regions.
What You’ll Do:
- Oversee complex sourcing requests from start to finish, assessing business requirements, risk, and commercial context.
- Determine appropriate sourcing approaches in line with category strategy and policy requirements.
- Lead end-to-end sourcing for higher-complexity initiatives, including negotiations, supplier selection, and commercial alignment.
- Design and execute e-RFx strategies for complex initiatives, utilizing advanced evaluation techniques.
- Perform total cost of ownership (TCO) analytics and cost modeling, leveraging spend analytics and external benchmarking.
- Draft, negotiate, and manage non-strategic contracts end-to-end in collaboration with Legal.
- Ensure contract data supports sourcing and supplier decisions effectively.
- Own supplier evaluation, remediation, and performance discussions.
- Partner with business stakeholders to align sourcing solutions with business priorities and objectives.
- Lead process improvement initiatives and support new system rollouts across sourcing and contracting activities.
Who You Are: You are a detail-oriented professional with a knack for organization and multitasking in fast-paced environments. You thrive on building collaborative relationships across teams, enhancing your role as a trusted business partner. Your strong communication skills, both written and verbal, enable you to effectively convey ideas and negotiate contracts. Moreover, you possess a keen analytical mindset, always seeking opportunities for process improvement and sustainable value delivery in strategic sourcing initiatives.
Required Skills:
- Bachelor’s Degree in Business Administration, Supply Chain, Procurement, Finance, or a related discipline.
- 5+ years of experience in strategic sourcing or category management roles.
- Proven experience in leading end-to-end sourcing initiatives, negotiations, and managing supplier relationships.
- 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:
- Experience with contract reviews and negotiations.
- Familiarity with Marketing & Sales category 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, or a related discipline
- 5+ years of experience in strategic sourcing or category management roles
- Experience leading end-to-end sourcing initiatives, negotiations, and supplier relationship management
- 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 work collaboratively and build relationships across teams
- Experience with contract reviews and negotiations
- Familiarity with Marketing and Sales category services sourcing
- Process improvement mindset
- Holder of a work permit and residency in Poland
Biogen Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Biogen and has not been reviewed or approved by Biogen.
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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.
