At Alcon, we’re passionate about enhancing sight and helping people see brilliantly. With more than 25,000 associates, we innovate fearlessly, champion progress, and act swiftly to impact global eye health. We foster an inclusive culture, recognizing your contributions and offering opportunities to grow your career like never before. Together, we make a difference in the lives of our patients and customers. Are you ready to join us?
We foster an inclusive culture and are looking for diverse, talented people to join Alcon. Sr. Manager Strategic External Supplier planning and pricing is primarily responsible for leading business process improvements, driving high-impact initiatives, and aligning outcomes with organizational goals by guiding and developing teams and collaborating with senior leadership
In this role, a typical day will include:
Planning & pricing
- Lead external supply planning — aligning demand, capacity, and supply commitments across strategic external partners
- Manage external supplier pricing and cost — analyzing cost drivers, developing cost models, and supporting negotiations to ensure pricing aligns with agreements and business objectives
- Develop forecasts, analytics, and reporting to inform external supply, cost, and pricing decisions
- Lead annual budgeting, long-term strategy planning and forecasting
- P&L ownership
Strategic supplier & agreement management
- Support and advance key Master Supply Agreement (MSA) initiatives with strategic manufacturing partners
- Serve as a primary point of coordination between Alcon and external manufacturing partners, building strong, collaborative relationships and driving supplier performance
- Partner with strategic CMOs on supply commitments, capacity, quality, and continuous improvement
Project leadership & transfer execution
- Lead the planning, coordination, insourcing contract-manufacturer (CMO) transfer activities— owning financial,timelines, milestones, deliverables, and cross-functional dependencies end to end
- Serve as the dedicated resource governing complex external manufacturing projects across the External Supply Organization (ESO)
- Establish project governance, stage-gate reviews, and risk-management routines for external manufacturing transfers and initiatives
- Proactively identify, assess, and mitigate risks to schedule, cost, quality, and supply continuity throughout the transfer lifecycle
Business process development & improvement
- Develop, document, and manage business processes that support the objectives of the External Supply Organization
- Identify and create standardized processes that strengthen the planning, coordination, and governance of external manufacturing
- Implement and manage cross-departmental business process improvements to increase efficiency, consistency, and control
Cross-functional collaboration & governance
- Partner cross-functionally with Supply Chain, Quality, Regulatory, Manufacturing, Procurement, and Finance to execute transfers and initiatives
- Communicate project status, risks, and key decisions to senior leadership and stakeholders
- Ensure external manufacturing activities meet applicable quality, regulatory (GxP), and compliance requirements
What You’ll Bring to Alcon:
- Bachelor’s Degree or Equivalent years of directly related experience (or high school +15 yrs; Assoc.+11 yrs; M.S.+4 yrs; PhD+3 yrs)
- The ability to fluently read, write, understand, and communicate in English
- 7 Years of Relevant Experience
- 5 Years of Demonstrated Leadership
How You Can Thrive at Alcon:
- See your career like never before with focused growth and development opportunities
- Join Alcon’s mission to provide outstanding, innovative products and solutions to improve sight, improve lives, and grow your career!
- Alcon provides a robust benefits package including health, life, retirement, flexible time off, and much more!
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Alcon takes pride in maintaining an inclusive environment that values different perspectives and our policies are non-discriminatory in recruitment, hiring, training, promotion or other employment practices for reasons of race, color, religion, gender, national origin, age, sexual orientation, marital or veteran status, disability, or any other legally protected status. Alcon is also committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodation to individuals with disabilities. If, because of a medical condition or disability, you need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the application process, or in order to perform the essential functions of a position, please send an email to [email protected] and let us know the nature of your request and your contact information.
Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent directly related experience
- Fluent ability to read, write, understand, and communicate in English
- 7 years of relevant experience
- 5 years of demonstrated leadership experience
Alcon Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Alcon and has not been reviewed or approved by Alcon.
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Retirement Support — Retirement benefits are framed as unusually strong, pairing a 401(k) match with an additional employer-funded retirement plan contribution. Stock purchase access and performance bonuses are also positioned as meaningful components of total rewards.
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Healthcare Strength — Health coverage is described as comprehensive across medical, dental, vision, life, disability, and mental health support. Distinctive vision-related perks, including free contact lenses in some cases, reinforce the perceived strength of the health-and-wellness offering.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Time-off offerings are characterized as robust, including paid holidays, PTO/vacation, paid sick time, and parental leave. Flexible time off for certain exempt roles and reported year-end shutdown periods further strengthen perceived coverage.
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What We Do
Alcon helps people see brilliantly. As the global leader in eye care with a heritage spanning more than seven decades, we offer the broadest portfolio of products to enhance sight and improve people’s lives. Our Surgical and Vision Care products touch the lives of more than 260 million people in over 140 countries each year living with conditions like cataracts, glaucoma, retinal diseases and refractive errors. Our more than 20,000 associates are enhancing the quality of life through innovative products, partnerships with eye care professionals and programs that advance access to quality eye care.
