About This Role:
As the Sr. Manager of Clinical Program Sourcing & Contract Management (CPSCM), you will lead a dedicated team of contracting professionals, reporting to the Associate Director of CPSCM. In this role, you will oversee the end-to-end sourcing and contracting support for global clinical trials, spanning multiple therapeutic areas and study phases. Your leadership will ensure the accurate intake of specifications, high-quality budget development, and the timely execution of all necessary documentation. This position plays a crucial role in translating study forecasts into resource plans, optimizing workload distribution, and ensuring consistent delivery across programs. By partnering closely with Clinical Operations, Finance, Legal, and Category Management, you will enhance contracting readiness and cross-functional execution. Your contributions will drive process improvements, support new tool adoption, and ensure adherence to compliance standards, ultimately strengthening Biogen’s clinical development delivery.
What You’ll Do:
- Lead and manage a team of approximately 10 sourcing and contracting professionals, ensuring high performance and accountability.
- Conduct weekly operational reviews to monitor and balance workload distribution and priorities.
- Oversee the development and execution of Statements of Work (SOWs), amendments, and documentation packages.
- Serve as the escalation point for operational issues, resolving them effectively.
- Develop team capabilities through coaching and best practice sharing.
- Oversee sourcing and contracting deliverables for high-complexity vendor categories.
- Provide guidance on complex specifications, pricing, and negotiation strategies.
- Collaborate with the Associate Director to align resource plans with program forecasts.
- Ensure compliance with commercial governance and maintain inspection-ready documentation.
- Lead process improvements and technology enablement efforts within CPSCM.
- Represent CPSCM in cross-functional meetings and compliance forums.
- Support organizational transitions and special projects requiring contracting expertise.
Who You Are:
You are a strategic thinker with a keen eye for detail and a passion for leading teams to success. Your strong organizational skills allow you to manage multiple complex contracts simultaneously, ensuring compliance and high-quality outcomes. You excel in stakeholder management, fostering collaboration across functions to drive operational excellence. Your commercial acumen and negotiation skills enable you to identify and address pricing discrepancies and contract risks confidently. You are committed to continuous improvement and embrace change management to enhance processes and systems. Ultimately, you are driven by delivering impactful results that advance clinical development.
Required Skills:
- Bachelor’s degree required (Business, Life Sciences, or related field).
- 7+ years of procurement, sourcing, or contract management experience in biotech/pharma or similarly regulated industries.
- Demonstrated experience managing teams in a high-volume, matrixed clinical environment.
- Expertise in specification development, scope validation, and budget modeling.
- Proven ability to negotiate within established MSA frameworks.
- Strong stakeholder management and cross-functional collaboration skills.
- Detail-oriented with a disciplined compliance mindset.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
Preferred Skills:
- Advanced degree and/or legal/contracting background.
- Procurement certifications (e.g., CPSM/C.P.M.).
- Experience in process improvement and change management initiatives.
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.
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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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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.
