**General Description:**
**Role Purpose**
This position plays a critical role in leveraging external solutions—including CRO partnerships, digitalization, and AI—to improve cost efficiency, accelerate delivery, and enhance quality across R&D.
**Business Partnering and Cost Optimization**
The role serves as a business partner to R&D functions, helping identify cost optimization opportunities, develop practical solutions, and support implementation in alignment with the R&D superhighway.
**Category Strategy and External Resourcing**
This position is responsible for category management of CRO and FSP outsourcing. It partners with cross-functional stakeholders to define outsourcing and external resourcing strategies, support vendor and partner selection, and enable effective execution.
**Vendor Management and Governance**
The role also leads vendor management activities, including maintaining strategic supplier relationships, resolving issues, tracking performance, ...