Associate Director Sourcing and Contracting

**Job Description**:
Our Sourcing team partner with the business to ensure efficient acquisition of goods and services that enables the commercialization of our medicines, vaccines and Animal Health products. We collaborate internationally and are grouped into center-led categories and regional operating teams.

The **Associate Director **is an essential resource to assist the category team on operational and transactional sourcing activities such as creation and management of Request For X, coordination with suppliers, evaluation of Request For x response and, all other sourcing related steps in SAP Ariba. As consequence activities, performs contract drafting, management of contract negotiations (redlines) within guidelines of pre-defined contract playbook and clause library also supports periodic maintenance of contract playbook and clause library. The job supports both major category and minor category procurement. Works with Procurement Category owners globally to understand supply strategies and associated implementation.

Our Support Functions deliver services and make recommendations about ways to enhance our workplace and the culture of our organization. Our Support Functions include Human Resources, Finance, Information Technology, Legal, Procurement, Administration, Facilities and Security.

**Qualifications**:
**Required**

Bachelor’s Degree in Business, Finance, Engineering, or related field

**Preferred**:
MBA or master’s degree in Business, Finance, Engineering, or related field

**Experience**:

- Minimum ten (10) years in procurement or related supply chain role
- Familiarity with transaction structures and experience with negotiating a variety of commercial contracts including but not limited to MSAs, SOWs, Change Orders, CDAs/NDAs, and Data Privacy Agreements
- Source to Pay (S2P) processes knowledge and expertise in S2P technologies such as Ariba
- Experience on workflow management tools such as ServiceNow*

**Who we are**

We are known as Merck & Co., Inc., Rahway, New Jersey, USA in the United States and Canada and MSD everywhere else. For more than a century, we have been inventing for life, bringing forward medicines and vaccines for many of the world's most challenging diseases. Today, our company continues to be at the forefront of research to deliver innovative health solutions and advance the prevention and treatment of diseases that threaten people and animals around the world.

**What we look for **

Imagine getting up in the morning for a job as important as helping to save and improve lives around the world. Here, you have that opportunity. You can put your empathy, creativity, digital mastery, or scientific genius to work in collaboration with a diverse group of colleagues who pursue and bring hope to countless people who are battling some of the most challenging diseases of our time. Our team is constantly evolving, so if you are among the intellectually curious, join us—and start making your impact today.

We are proud to be a company that embraces the value of bringing diverse, talented, and committed people together. The fastest way to breakthrough innovation is when diverse ideas come together in an inclusive environment. We encourage our colleagues to respectfully challenge one another’s thinking and approach problems collectively. We are an equal opportunity employer, committed to fostering an inclusive and diverse workplace.

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**Employee Status**:
Regular

**Relocation**:
No relocation

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**Requisition ID**:R225461