Interim Pharma Procurement Manager
| Posting date: | 11 July 2025 |
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| Salary: | £450 to £500 per day |
| Additional salary information: | outside IR35 |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 25 July 2025 |
| Location: | Macclesfield, Cheshire, SK10 2NA |
| Remote working: | Hybrid - work remotely up to 3 days per week |
| Company: | Hays Specialist Recruitment |
| Job type: | Contract |
| Job reference: | 4707019_1752253548 |
Summary
Your new company
A globally renowned and highly innovative pharmaceutical business in the heart of Cheshire is seeking an interim Procurement Manager to carefully manage their spend within APIs, bio substances and formulation & packaging (F&P). The contract will last at least until the end of 2025 with a likelihood of extension.
Your new role
Reporting to the Procurement Director for external manufacturing, your role as Procurement Manager is to lead sourcing and procurement activities for biological drug substance categories of external manufacturing. In this role you will lead commercial procurement activities with specific suppliers, and for assigned brands within the company. Working with other internal stakeholders, you will develop long-term strategies across two main angles: for brands, working with department heads to drive end-to-end supply chain value, as well as full product lifecycle value; and then for technologies, developing biologics drug substance category strategies. Ultimately, your role is ensuring that the external supply base can support these strategies long into the future.
What you'll need to succeed
- Extensive experience in Procurement, ideally within the Pharmaceutical industry - in one or more of the following areas: Active Pharmaceutical Ingredient (API) / Bio drug substances / Formulation & Packaging (F&P). Bio drug substances would be the ideal experience to have out of the areas above.
- Experience of sourcing contract manufacturing services would be advantageous
- Strong experience in supplier selection & strong negotiation strategy
- Stakeholder Management and negotiation skills
- Comfort with risk and ambiguous situations.
- Ability to work in fast paced moving environment managing multiple scenarios.
- Commercial, Procurement experience, negotiating large, complex deals.
- Experience of working on global basis.
- Analytical and systems acumen, working with Procure-to-pay systems, SAP, Microsoft Suite
What you'll get in return
- A lucrative contract opportunity where you can earn between £450 - 500 per day OUTSIDE SCOPE of IR35
- A contract lasting until the end of 2025 with the likelihood of extension
- A rewarding opportunity to support the amazing work of a global pharmaceutical company
- Hybrid working - initially 3 days p/week in the office, reducing after initial settling in period
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