Senior Buyer - South San Francisco, United States - CytomX Therapeutics
Description
**Description**
**About CytomX Therapeutics:**
CytomX Therapeutics, Inc. is committed to changing the treatment of cancer with our novel Probody therapeutic platform. Our commitment to transforming lives with safer, more effective therapies is driven by our curiosity and passion for innovation and our belief that by acting with integrity in an honest, respectful, ethical manner, we have the power to change lives. Our workplace embodies collaboration, open communication, celebrating our successes, and holding each other to the highest possible standards. CytomX has a broad pipeline, including 4 clinical-stage programs and others in development and is located in South San Francisco, California, the birthplace of biotechnology. Learn more at .
**Location:** South San Francisco, California
**Reporting Relationship:** Reports to the Senior Director, Finance, Procurement and Strategic Sourcing
**The Opportunity****:**
The Senior Buyer will coordinate, and lead activities involved with purchasing and planning of goods, services and commodities; Own Travel Category; Manage day to day Procurement Operations, provide support on Coupa and lead Procurement related technologies; Provide sourcing and category management related support where required.
**Professional Responsibilities:**
Looking for a Buyer who can balance between and has interest in Sourcing, Category Management and Procurement Operations
Sourcing and Category Management:
+ Partners with customers to help them identify suppliers who can meet their needs and leads vendor selection
+ Travel Owns travel category, partners with Travel Agency on record to analyze spend, identifies opportunities and partners with Head of Procurement/Finance and CFO to implement
+ Identifies Vendor Management best practices and trains the organization
Procurement Operations: Manages day-to-day procurement operations related activities
+ Vendor Master
Own Vendor Master, its management and integrity
+ KPIs
Analyzes P2P value chain established KPIs on agreed upon schedule, analyzes opportunities to improve and partners cross-functionally to implement
+ Contracted Spend:
Reviews partially executed contract and creates purchase requisition.
+ Goods:
Review purchase requisitions and P2P output for appropriate information and approvals.
Confer with suppliers to obtain product or service information such as price, availability and delivery schedules.
Direct and coordinate the timely issue of suppliers Open Order, Past Due Orders, Supplier Requirements and other reports.
Interface directly with staff and suppliers to resolve order status, discrepancies, past due items and schedule/date changes.
Resolve invoice discrepancies with suppliers and Accounts Payable.
Coordinate defective and returned materials with suppliers, Quality Assurance and others to determine root cause, initiate and follow-up on corrective actions.
+ Budget
Ensure purchases are within budget according to Current Operating Plan.
+ Compliance
Provide SOX Support
Ensure purchase is compliant with company policy and no material weakness identified
+ SP Projects
Provide support related to Coupa training and implementation
**Education/Experience:**
Bachelors Degree from a four-year college or university is highly preferred, and 5-8 years of experience in a Buyer or Senior Buyer role.
**Professional Requirements:**
Three to five years of experience in a life sciences environment preferred.
Coupa procurement experience a plus.
**Personal Characteristics**:
Demonstrate a commitment to CytomX values of Integrity, Commitment, Creativity, Teamwork, Accountability, and Fun
Ability to interpret a variety of instructions furnished in written, oral, diagram or schedule form.
Highly effective project and time management skills and ability to operate independently.
Commitment to customer excellence with demonstrated ethics and integrity.
**Working Conditions/Requirements:**
This role requires the employee to work hybrid. Please note that CytomX has initiated a vaccination policy on October 31, 2021, which requires staff whose job responsibilities must be conducted onsite to be fully vaccinated, unless they are subject to legally required exemptions.
Physical Demands: While performing the duties of this job, the employee is required to stand, walk; sit; talk and hear. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and the ability to adjust focus.
Work Environment: The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.
*CytomX is an equal opportunity employer. Employment decisions are based on merit and business needs. CytomX will not discriminate against any job applicant because of race, color, national origin, ancestry, gender, sexual orientation, age, religion, creed, physical or mental disability, gender identity, medical condition, pregnancy, marital status, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local law.*