R&D Sourcing Manager - TAPI

The opportunity

The TAPI R&D Sourcing Manager will lead sourcing activities for TAPI sites located in Italy, Israel, Hungary, India, and the Czech Republic throughout the entire product lifecycle, from initial lab samples to the first market launch. This role is responsible for ensuring the timely delivery of all raw materials to R&D sites from cost-competitive, highly compliant, and reliable suppliers, thereby facilitating on-time development, submissions, and product launches. A key responsibility is to ensure TAPI's competitiveness by actively negotiating all orders to secure competitive raw material prices that align with product strategy and business needs. Furthermore, the manager will continuously evaluate and develop risk mitigation plans for key raw materials and starting materials. A strong focus will be placed on continuous improvement and achieving cost excellence. Lastly, the role involves safeguarding TAPI's compliance and ethical standards, protecting the environment, improving sustainability practices, and ensuring patient safety.

Key responsibilities

• In-depth understanding of the TAPI R&D needs, IP status, product's strategy, regulatory requirements and timelines.
• Manage the sourcing activities for intermediates required for TAPI R&D development
• Source for suitable intermediates by mapping and evaluating the available options in the market (active and silent search)
• Identify potential suppliers and conduct RFPs, analysis, cost modeling and risk management.
• Provide professional and expert-level knowledge of the key raw materials supply base and global intermediates market (suppliers, prices, technology etc')
• Negotiate intermediates pricing with suppliers and contact developers to achieve aggressive savings targets - To be aligned with the current and future cost of the product (in R&D and commercially)
• Negotiate and set development and supply agreements with contract manufacturers for TAPI Key raw materials and follow up until fully signed.
• Set and support product strategy and risk mitigation plan to be aligned with global procurement and business needs which will be reviewed and adjusted periodically.
• Ensure continuous evaluation and global high-risk execution mitigation plan for securing key raw materials and starting materials supply base for TAPI R&D products.
• Initiate and ensure commercial and QA audit prior to submission.
• Manage supplier relationship within category (SRM Initiative), undertaking strategic supplier performance improvement actions as required
• Ensure sourcing / approval of commercially viable, high compliance and cost competitive sources for all Key Raw materials / starting materials to support successful launches.

Your experience and qualifications

Must excel in problem-solving and thrive in a fast-paced, dynamic environment, adapting quickly to changing market conditions and organizational needs.