Vendor Management Associate

Quintiles (NYSE: Q) is the world’s largest provider of biopharmaceutical development and commercial outsourcing services with a network of more than 29,000 employees conducting business in approximately 100 countries. We helped develop or commercialize all of 2013’s top-100 best-selling drugs on the market.

Quintiles applies the breadth and depth of our service offerings along with extensive therapeutic, scientific and analytics expertise to help our customers navigate an increasingly complex healthcare environment as they seek to improve efficiency and effectiveness in the delivery of better healthcare outcomes. To learn more about Quintiles, please visit www.quintiles.com

PURPOSE

· Individual contributor role to:
- Work amongst suppliers and internal stakeholders to ensure vendors successfully complete each step of the Quintiles vendor setup and qualification processes.
- Work closely with Quintiles Buyers, suppliers and other stakeholders to support the business through the vendor qualification and vendor setup processes.

RESPONSIBILITIES

· Professionally represent Quintiles to suppliers while acting as a point of contact for their assistance in getting through the Quintiles vendor qualification and onboarding processes.
· Work with functional stakeholders to identify requirements and establish the purchasing process steps and timetables.
· May act as contact point for the business to explain and support their efforts to successfully complete the PO Requisition, vendor setup, and vendor qualification processes.
· Interact with employees and suppliers in a variety of European languages to ensure they provide accurate and complete information to allow suppliers to be properly established.
· Manipulate Microsoft Excel to properly analyze and report departmental results.
· Manipulate PeopleSoft to ensure suppliers are created properly.
· Perform other duties as assigned.
· All responsibilities are essential job functions unless noted as nonessential (N).