Senior Manager - Tech Procurement

Site Name: GSK HQ

Posted Date: Oct 7 2024

We have a new opportunity for a Senior Manager to join our ever-growing Technology Procurement team. The Senior Global Category Manager for Technology Procurement, is accountable for all sourcing and contract management across their assigned category(ies). This will include the implementation of category strategies; the contracting for master/service/product agreements within the categories; the management of supplier relationships that fall outside of the enterprise SRM structure for these categories; and for ensuring the suppliers key to their category(ies) commit to deliver GSK's performance/quality/financial requirements.

We create a place where people can grow, be their best, be safe, and feel welcome, valued and included. We offer a competitive salary, an annual bonus based on company performance, healthcare and wellbeing programmes, pension plan membership, and shares and savings programme.

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In this role you will

Strategy Development

• Procurement category strategy leadership for an assigned category(ies), leading the development, management and implementation of comprehensive strategies on a global scale that deliver the business requirements across assurance of supply, quality, service, cost and innovation.

Strategy Implementation

• Negotiates contracts with suppliers that secure favourable terms for procurement contracts in line with the agreed business requirements.
• Contract planning, negotiation, execution, interpretation and maintenance; manages / monitors ongoing negotiations with 3rd parties.
• Lead and implement key projects to support savings delivery or risk mitigation.

Business partnering & stakeholder management in GSK

• Global leadership and global influence including business partnering of senior stakeholders.
• Build strategic relationships with GSK stakeholders, to understand business requirements, identify opportunities to create value and to position Procurement's value proposition. Align sourcing strategies accordingly.
• Lead stakeholder alignment and Plan delivery (Commercial leadership and Finance across the business)
• Working across multiple countries requiring high cultural awareness

External supplier relationships

• Lead SRM for key strategic vendors in spend categories
• Manage the suppliers for the categories within scope through a robust performance management process. Ensure supplier performance is understood and measured.
• Requires significant external supplier knowledge

Business Strategy

• Champions the sourcing group management process and policies across functions and links these to GSK's strategic direction
• Knows and utilises complex business processes in all GSK supplier transactions, including all risk/regulatory/compliance requirements

Why you?

Basic Qualifications & Skills:

We are looking for professionals with these required skills to achieve our goals:

• Strong Procurement experience particularly with respect to developing & implementing strategies, stakeholder management and supplier relationship management
• Strong Leadership/communication skills
• Good understanding of Procurement tools / skillset such as sourcing, quotation analysis, contract negotiation, supplier review, supplier development and others
• Demonstrated experience in managing global projects
• Contracting experience required, including a thorough understanding of contracting fundamentals and experience with contract planning, negotiation, execution, interpretation and maintenance

Preferred Qualifications & Skills:

Please note the following skills are not necessary, just preferred, if you do not have them, please still apply:

• Experience of delivering global projects in multi-national, matrixed organisations
• Experience of sourcing enterprise wide Security tools, software and services
• Master's Degree or Equivalent Experience- Procurement, Business, Finance, Law

Closing Date for Applications – Friday 18th October 2024 (COB)

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Why GSK?

Uniting science, technology and talent to get ahead of disease together.

GSK is a global biopharma company with a special purpose – to unite science, technology and talent to get ahead of disease together – so we can positively impact the health of billions of people and deliver stronger, more sustainable shareholder returns – as an organisation where people can thrive. We prevent and treat disease with vaccines, specialty and general medicines. We focus on the science of the immune system and the use of new platform and data technologies, investing in four core therapeutic areas (infectious diseases, HIV, respiratory/ immunology and oncology).

Our success absolutely depends on our people. While getting ahead of disease together is about our ambition for patients and shareholders, it's also about making GSK a place where people can thrive. We want GSK to be a place where people feel inspired, encouraged and challenged to be the best they can be. A place where they can be themselves – feeling welcome, valued, and included. Where they can keep growing and look after their wellbeing. So, if you share our ambition, join us at this exciting moment in our journey to get Ahead Together.

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