Sr. Procurement Specialist
Avid Bioservices
Summary
The Senior Procurement Specialist drives the organization's sourcing lifecycle to optimize costs, mitigate market risks, and guarantee supply continuity. This role balances strategic category leadership with execution, managing a diverse portfolio across both direct procurement (production-critical raw materials and inventory) and indirect procurement (operational goods, software, and corporate services). The ideal candidate acts as a strategic advisor to stakeholders and builds resilient, high-performing supplier networks.
Job description
Key Responsibilities
- Process purchase orders, track deliveries, and ensure timely receipt of goods
- Responsible for negotiating preferred/discount pricing or contract pricing with vendors.
- Maintain strong relationships with suppliers, monitor performance, and resolve disputes or claims.
- Partners with AP to resolve vendor invoice issues.
- Partners with MSAT to drive second sourcing activities for raw materials.
- Helps with obtaining vendor documentation for RMS updates for materials.
- Drive sourcing strategies for raw materials and core engineering components to ensure milestones are being met.
- Complex Contracting: Draft and negotiating complex, multi-year Master Service Agreements (MSAs), Statements of Work (SOWs), and Service Level Agreements (SLAs).
- Help drive Key Performance Metrics (KPI’s) such as cost savings/avoidance, supplier performance and reduction in procurement cycle times.
- Managing high-value corporate spend categories (e.g., Enterprise Software, Global Facilities, Professional Services) and aligning procurement with executive business goals.
- Responsible for executing and managing enterprise-wide sourcing strategies for non-production goods and services. This role focuses on optimizing corporate spend, driving structural cost reduction initiatives, and building resilient supplier frameworks across high value spend categories.
Minimum Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Supply Chain Management, Business Administration, Finance, or a related technical field.
- 5 to 8+ years of indirect/direct corporate procurement or category management experience.
- Experience with ERP / inventory control systems required, Dynamics D365 experience preferred.
- Excellent stakeholder management, communication and influencing skills.
Preferred Qualifications
- Professional certification (e.g., CPSM, MCIPS, or APICS/CSCP) is highly preferred.
- cGMP experience and writing SOP’s and contracts highly preferred.
- Elite negotiation skills with a proven track record of securing multi-million-dollar annual savings.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Supply Chain Management, Business Administration, Finance, or a related technical field.
- 5 to 8+ years of indirect/direct corporate procurement or category management experience.
- Experience with ERP / inventory control systems required.
- Excellent stakeholder management, communication and influencing skills.
- Professional certification (e.g., CPSM, MCIPS, or APICS/CSCP) is highly preferred.
- cGMP experience and writing SOP’s and contracts highly preferred.
- Elite negotiation skills with a proven track record of securing multi-million-dollar annual savings.
Benefits
- Health insurance
- Dental insurance
- Vision insurance
- 401(k) matching
- Paid time off
- Performance-based bonuses
Company overview
Avid Bioservices is a leading contract development and manufacturing organization (CDMO) specializing in biologics derived from mammalian cell culture systems. Founded in 1993 and headquartered in Tustin, California, the company has over 30 years of experience in biologics manufacturing. Avid provides comprehensive process development, CGMP clinical and commercial manufacturing services for the biotechnology and biopharmaceutical industries. Their expertise spans from early-stage process development to full-scale commercial manufacturing, including cell line development, upstream and downstream optimization, analytical methods development, and regulatory submissions support. The company has produced more than 250 commercial batches and has five commercial products marketed in over 90 countries. With state-of-the-art facilities and a flawless quality track record maintained for over a decade, Avid Bioservices focuses on transforming the CDMO experience through personalized processes, unrivaled expertise, and exceptional quality standards. The company was recently acquired by GHO Capital Partners and Ampersand Capital Partners in a $1.1 billion transaction, positioning it for continued growth in the biologics manufacturing sector.