Category Sourcing Lead

Job Summary:

The Category Sourcing Lead will join the Supply Chain Management team and lead strategic sourcing activities across direct and indirect spend categories. This role will manage competitive bidding events, negotiate commercial terms, evaluate suppliers, and partner with cross-functional teams to identify cost savings and value-generation opportunities. The role will also support supplier transitions and ensure sourcing activities align with applicable FDA-regulated change control processes.

• Reporting to: Executive Director, Strategic Sourcing
• Location: Johnson City or Nashville, TN | Hybrid work schedule 

Responsibilities/Essential Duties:

• Serve as a key Strategic Sourcing contact for assigned spend categories and maintain an understanding of industry dynamics, supply market conditions, and key suppliers.
• Identify cost reduction and value-generation opportunities across assigned categories and develop sourcing strategies aligned with business needs.
• Lead end-to-end RFQ and RFP processes, including developing sourcing packages, evaluating supplier proposals, analyzing total cost of ownership, and presenting award recommendations.
• Lead contract negotiations with business and legal stakeholders to secure favorable commercial and legal terms while minimizing transition risk and cost.
• Source direct materials, including chemicals, active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs), and packaging components, in alignment with FDA regulations and cGMP standards.
• Partner with Quality, Regulatory, Manufacturing, and other cross-functional teams to qualify suppliers, manage change control activities, and address supply disruptions.
• Partner with corporate and commercial teams to develop scopes of work for professional services and negotiate commercial terms, SLAs, and KPIs.
• Draft, review, and negotiate commercial agreements, including MSAs, SOWs, software license agreements, order forms, and supply agreements.
• Partner with stakeholders to evaluate supplier performance and implement cost-saving and process improvement initiatives.

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree & more than 5 years of directly related experience.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience working within an FDA-regulated industry, including pharmaceuticals, biotech, medical devices, or cosmetics.
• Experience in strategic sourcing, category management, competitive bidding, contract negotiation, and supplier management.
• Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration or Supply Chain Management.
• Professional certification through ASCM, ISM, PMI, or ASQ is a plus.

Company Summary:

Revance is a global company developing, producing, and distributing industry-leading, differentiated products across aesthetics, skincare, and therapeutics. Revance drives innovation beyond convention to offer treatment options for individuals across generations. The Company’s vision is to redefine excellence in aesthetics, skincare, and therapeutics through science-powered innovation, with an unwavering commitment to its providers, patients, and consumers. Revance’s award-winning products are the result of robust research and development, a cornerstone for the Company, driven by renowned scientists. For more information about Revance, please visit us at www.revance.com.

What Revance invests in you:

• Competitive Compensation including base salary and annual performance bonus.
• Flexible PTO, holidays, and parental leave.
• Generous healthcare benefits, HSA match, 401k match, employer paid life and disability insurance, pet insurance, wellness discounts and much more!

This section of the job description is required by the American with Disability Act (ADA). The ADA requires that job descriptions reflect the physical and mental demands required to effectively perform the essential duties of the job. The ADA prohibits employers from discriminating against a “qualified individual with a disability” in all aspects of the employment relationship. A “qualified individual with a disability” is “an individual who meets the education, experience, skill, and other job-related requirements of a position held or desired, and who, with reasonable accommodation, can perform the essential functions of a specified job.”

Revance is an Equal Opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment based on merit, without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, protected Veteran Status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state, or local law.