Sourcing Manager - Lab Supplies and Services

Overview

Sourcing Manager for Lab Supplies and Services within Takeda's Global Procurement, focused on R&D categories with end-to-end source-to-contract responsibility for defined spend thresholds.

What you'll do

• Develop and execute sourcing strategies aligned with Global Category Manager direction and business needs.
• Identify and drive value levers (cost, demand, innovation, risk, ESG) and support Category Managers to drive value.
• Lead negotiations with suppliers, driving value and competitive advantage to Takeda.
• Own relationships with suppliers and stakeholders where managed by the value delivery team.
• Drive standardisation, consolidation and catalogue enablement across a high-transaction, scientist-driven spend base.
• Develop and own sourcing strategies for Lab Supplies and Services categories aligned with business priorities and category strategies.
• Prepare sourcing events and align with Central Finance on RFx execution.
• Maintain the project pipeline in Wave and drive continuous improvement against quality targets.
• Act as primary procurement interface for Research and Laboratory Operations, Lab Managers, EHS, R&D Finance and Operational Procurement in sourcing.
• Challenge demand, specifications, and sourcing approaches constructively.
• Socialize procurement best practices (preferred suppliers, SoW optimization, BuyEasy@Takeda etc.).
• Support supplier selection decisions, segmentation, and performance governance.
• Support strategic supplier relationships and escalate risks to Sourcing Lead.
• Implement and enforce standardized sourcing templates, playbooks, and workflows.
• Identify opportunities for automation with digital and AI for process optimization and simplification.
• Deliver value through supplier relationships, governance, and performance management across the Lab Supplies and Services portfolio managed by the value delivery team.
• Identify and mitigate supply chain risks to ensure business continuity and patient supply security.
• Develop contingency plans and alternative sourcing strategies for applicable categories.
• Lead negotiations and contract finalization for assigned sourcing events within defined thresholds.
• Define negotiation strategies using should-cost models and benchmarks.
• Ensure alignment with Category Manager, Legal, Finance, and risk frameworks.
• Support delivery of savings targets and value realization (cost, demand, innovation, risk, ESG).
• Contribute to supplier risk management and compliance, and ensure alignment with Takeda procurement policies and governance standards.
• Drive CI and performance management of KPIs.
• Collaborate with operational buyers in Central Finance on execution and service delivery, and ensure smooth handover of sourcing inputs and outputs for operational RFx execution.
• Lead sourcing for reagents, antibodies, chemicals, plasticware and consumables, plus lab instruments and multi-year service/maintenance contracts.
• Source lab support services including managed lab services, glass wash, gases, cryogenics, sample storage/biorepository and waste disposal.
• Drive catalogue, punch-out and preferred-supplier adoption to reduce tail spend and maverick buying across research sites.
• Challenge demand and specifications with scientists, driving standardisation where scientific equivalence allows.
• Negotiate instrument lifecycle economics: capital price, consumable lock-in, service coverage, uptime and trade-in/refresh terms.

What you'll need

• Bachelor degree in relevant field.
• 10+ years in procurement, sourcing, or shared services.
• In-depth knowledge of strategic sourcing, with ability to leverage digital and AI improvements in ways of working.
• Strong commercial acumen and negotiation experience; ability to define strategies using should-cost models and benchmarks for professional services and marketing spend.
• Experience managing complex business stakeholders across Clinical Operations, Pharma Sciences, Finance, Legal, and Business Units.
• Proficiency with SAP Ariba or equivalent eSourcing tools; experience with Wave pipeline management.
• Experience managing high-volume, long-tail scientific spend with catalogue/punch-out and distributor consolidation strategies.
• Ability to analyse instrument-plus-consumable lifecycle economics and avoid vendor lock-in.
• Comfort partnering with scientific stakeholders to challenge specifications while protecting research outcomes.
• Exceptionally skilled at stakeholder management; proven ability to manage senior, cross-functional stakeholders.
• Collaborative and diplomatic, with demonstrated track record of operating successfully with limited day-to-day direction and ambiguity.
• Strong attention to detail.
• Exceptional communication and presentation skills, both oral and written.
• Extensive experience using Microsoft desktop applications (e.g. PowerPoint, Excel) and experience with Generative / Agentic AI.
• Fluent written and spoken English.

Nice to have

• Experience with indirect categories.
• Experience working in a complex global environment.

Details

• Location: IND - Bengaluru.
• Worker type: Employee; Regular.
• Time type: Full time.