Ultragenyx Pharmaceutical, founded in 2010, is a biotechnology company that specializes in bringing products to market to treat rare, ultra-rare, and serious ge
Director, Development Sourcing – Partnerships
Location
United States
Posted
2 days ago
Salary
$206.5K - $255K / year
Seniority
Lead
Job Description
Director, Development Sourcing – Partnerships
Ultragenyx Pharmaceutical
• Early engagement planning: Define and execute sourcing strategies aligned to pipeline, portfolio priorities, and enterprise objectives. • Vendor selection: Lead RFIs/RFPs, competitive bidding, vendor evaluations, bid defense strategy, and onboarding alignment for complex and high-impact initiatives to support fit-for-purpose vendor selection and successful engagement start-up. • Contracting alignment: Lead alignment across scope, budget, and contracting considerations, ensuring consistency and scalability between operational requirements, financial assumptions, and vendor agreements. • Strategic vendor partnership management: Serve as a senior strategic partnership lead for external GCP vendors across service categories, driving partnership alignment, performance expectations, strategic engagement, and ongoing relationship management across the vendor partnership. • Governance & oversight: Lead governance forums and support timely escalation resolution through appropriate senior stakeholder engagement, while driving KPI/performance discussions, quality alignment, consistent oversight, accountability, and strategic alignment across partners. • Sourcing and partnership optimization: Drive complex cross-program sourcing initiatives, vendor/category alignment activities, and partnership optimization efforts to establish consistency of sourcing and partnership approach, strengthen vendor engagement, and scale effective practices across programs and vendors. • Lessons learned / continuous improvement: Drive continuous improvement by identifying cross-program insights, scaling best practices, and strengthening sourcing and partnership approaches across the portfolio. • Stakeholder engagement: Engage and influence senior cross-functional stakeholders to support sourcing decisions, align vendor partnership strategy with execution needs, and drive strategic and portfolio alignment across programs and vendors.
Job Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Life Sciences, Business Administration, or a related field required; advanced degree preferred.
- Minimum of 10 years of experience in clinical vendor management, outsourcing, strategic sourcing, clinical operations, or related roles within the pharmaceutical, biotech, or CRO industry.
- Minimum of 3–5 years of experience leading vendor relationships, sourcing activities, contracting alignment, governance, and performance oversight in a clinical development environment.
- Experience leading RFIs/RFPs, competitive bidding, vendor evaluation, selection, and engagement start-up for complex or high-impact clinical development initiatives.
- Experience leading alignment of scope, budget, contracting, and vendor agreement considerations for outsourced services.
- Experience driving vendor governance, performance discussions, KPI review, issue escalation, and partnership management across programs and vendor categories.
- Strong understanding of clinical development, clinical operations, GCP, ICH guidelines, and regulatory expectations related to vendor oversight.
- Knowledge of quality expectations, internal SOPs, and compliance considerations applicable to vendor selection, oversight, and performance monitoring.
- Ability to interpret KPIs, performance data, dashboards, and financial information to inform sourcing strategy, vendor partnership decisions, and portfolio-level oversight.
- Strong leadership, cross-functional collaboration, stakeholder engagement, communication, relationship management, and influencing skills.
- Ability to influence senior stakeholders, drive alignment across functions, support timely escalation resolution, and promote scalable best practices.
- Strong organizational skills, sound judgment, strategic thinking, and ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced, evolving environment.
- Travel up to 30% may be required for vendor meetings, governance forums, site visits, audits, or industry conferences.
Benefits
- Generous vacation time and public holidays observed by the company
- Volunteer days
- Long term incentive and Employee stock purchase plans or equivalent offerings
- Employee wellbeing benefits
- Fitness reimbursement
- Tuition sponsoring
- Professional development plans
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