Strategic Sourcing Manager/Associate Director- Lab Consumables, Equipment, and Services Categories

Ginkgo Introduction 

Ginkgo is a high-growth, well-capitalized public biotech company in Boston that is redesigning the living world to solve some of the globe’s growing challenges in health, energy, food, materials, and more. Ginkgo is constructing, editing, and redesigning the living world in order to answer the globe’s growing challenges in health, energy, food, materials, and more. Our mission to “make biology easier to engineer” is poised to disrupt multiple industries by leveraging our innovative data, automation, and scale in biological engineering.

To support this rapid growth, Ginkgo is seeking a highly motivated Category manager to support Ginkgo’s Lab Consumables, DNA, Chemicals, Enzymes, Plastics, Equipment, and Services spend categories. Collaborating closely with cross-functional teams across Ginkgo, you’ll work to develop an in-depth understanding of Ginkgo’s business needs to effectively develop and execute sourcing plans, deliver financial and operational results. You will be responsible to develop the forecasting models and support sourcing efforts to ensure products are available at the highest level of quality, efficiency and cost.

As a member of Ginkgo’s Procurement and Supply Chain Team, you’ll leverage your strategic thinking and analytical skills to help drive key decision-making and ensure that the team’s short, medium, and long-term goals are achieved.  With your passion for Ginkgo’s mission and building something that matters, along with your ability to adapt and thrive in fast-paced environments, you’ll be a critical contributor to the success of Ginkgo as a whole.

We want to hire you if you have real sourcing experience rather than operations with exposure to technical side of things; ideally around the R&D scope. We are looking for commodity strategy, supplier relationship, and contract negotiation experience.

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Responsibilites

• Responsible for following categories: Lab consumables, DNA, chemicals, enzymes, CDMO, plastics, lab equipment and services.
• Develop and execute sourcing plans and initiatives, ensuring key products and services are available at highest level of quality, efficiency and cost
• Implement and support development of projects portfolio, collaborating with relevant business stakeholders
• Identify alternate products and drive validation to reduce supply chain risks
• Develop forecasting models to align supply and demand supporting inventory needs generated from historical usage and new project needs 
• Initiate, negotiate, and execute contracts and agreements for commercial terms, working with our Legal Team to ensure compliance with all legal, ethical, and procurement standards.
• Manage key supplier relationships through appropriate programs (e.g. alliance/supplier relationship management) to enable innovation and cost reduction through mutual accountability and trust.
• Provide oversight ensuring the supply base is properly managing and executing Supplier Quality Actions, discrepant materials, return to vendor transactions, and repair/refurbishment that are in or out of warranty
• Become a Subject Matter Expert for products categories understanding technology and how procurement can add value to support the technical team’s vision.
• Create and track customer-centric procurement KPIs to measure the performance of suppliers and stakeholders expectations 
• Design and develop metrics and reports, dashboards and analyses to drive key business decisions

Requirements

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Science, Biotechnology, Engineering, supply chain management, procurement, or related field
• 5+ years of experience with sourcing (Lab consumables, DNA, Chemicals, Enzymes, Plastics, lab equipments and services combined with R&D technical working experience 
• Demonstrated knowledge of strategic sourcing, category management, and supplier relationship management 
• Proven ability to manage negotiations, suppliers, and contracts
• High-level problem-solving and analytical skills, with the ability to identify, maintain, and utilize key metrics to make data-driven decisions and make continuous improvements
• Strong multitasking skills, with the ability to work on multiple, concurrent projects and adapt to changing priorities in a fast-paced, high-growth environment
• Enthusiasm about being a part of Ginkgo’s mission

Preferred Capabilites

• Prior experience with biotech startups and/or pharmaceutical companies

To learn more about Ginkgo, visit www.ginkgobioworks.com/press/ or check out some curated press below:

What is it really like to take your company public via a SPAC? One Boston biotech shares its journey (Fortune)

Ginkgo Bioworks resizes the definition of going big in biotech, raising $2.5B in a record SPAC deal that weighs in with a whopping $15B-plus valuation (Endpoints News)

Ginkgo Bioworks CEO on scaling up Covid-19 testing: ‘If we try, we can win’ (CNBC)

Ginkgo raises $70 million to ramp up COVID-19 testing for employers, universities (Boston Globe)

Ginkgo Bioworks Redirects Its Biotech Platform to Coronavirus (Wall Street Journal)

Ginkgo Bioworks Provides Support on Process Optimization to Moderna for COVID-19 Response (PRNewswire)

The Life Factory: Synthetic Organisms From This $1.4 Billion Startup Will Revolutionize Manufacturing (Forbes)

Synthetic Bio Pioneer Ginkgo Raises $290 Million in New Funding (Bloomberg)

Ginkgo Bioworks raises $350 million fund for biotech spinouts (Reuters)

Can This Company Convince You to Love GMOs? (The Atlantic)

We also feel that it’s important to point out the obvious here – there’s a serious lack of diversity in our industry, and that needs to change. Our goal is to help drive that change. Ginkgo is deeply committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion in all of its practices, especially when it comes to growing our team. Our culture promotes inclusion and embraces how rewarding it is to work with people from all walks of life.  

We’re developing a powerful biological engineering platform, so we must remain mindful of the many ways our technology can – and will – impact people around the world. We care about how our platform is used, and having a diverse team to build it gives us the best chance that it’s something we’ll be proud of as it continues to grow. Therefore, it’s critical that we incorporate the diverse voices and visions of all those who play a role in the future of biology.

It is the policy of Ginkgo Bioworks to provide equal employment opportunities to all employees and employment applicants.

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