Global Category Manager - Bioscience Materials
Global Category Manager - Bioscience Materials
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Job Description
Job Purpose
To support the creation implementation and management of comprehensive global sourcing strategies for Bioscience Materials.
Key Responsibilities:
- Under supervision or independently manages or supports one or more categories/commodities
- May work across multiple countries requiring high cultural awareness but operate with medium to lower spend
- Manages medium to low complexity spend categories
Strategy Development
- Lead the development management and of comprehensive strategies on a global regional or local basis 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 of goods and services contracts in line with the agreed business requirements.
- Lead strategic relationships with critical suppliers providing secure and costeffective sources for relevant commodities.
- Lead and implement key projects to support savings delivery or risk mitigation
Business partnering & stakeholder management in GSK
- Build strategic relationships with GSK stakeholders to understand business requirements identify opportunities to create value and to position Procurements value proposition. Align sourcing strategies accordingly
- Represent the category on relevant strategy development and supply chain forums
External supplier relationships
- Researches evaluates and selects suppliers
- Manage the supply base for the categories within scope through a robust performance management process. Ensure supplier performance is understood and measured
Supply chain & risk management
- Knows the sourcing group management process and policies; assesses risk
- Lead development and implementation of Risk Mitigation strategies to ensure security of supply.
- Awareness and adherence to risk/ regulatory/ compliance requirements
- Balance both strategic and operational requirements managing any supply interruptions that may occur
- Contract planning negotiation interpretation and maintenance; supports the negotiation process maintains contracts and relationships
Why you
Basic Qualifications:
- University Degree Procurement Business Finance or supply chain
- 35 years of operational Procurement experience across multiple categories of spend particularly with respect to developing & implementing strategies stakeholder management and supplier relationship management and some experience of regulated environments
- Demonstrated experience in influencing strategy and managing across multiple geographies and supply chains
- Good understanding of Procurement tools such as sourcing quotation analysis contract negotiation supplier review supplier development and others
- Good Ability to motivate and inspire colleagues and work in partnership with others to drive implement and support change
- Good ability to manage sensitive partnerships strong influencing and stakeholder partnering skills coupled with excellent negotiation and communication skills
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills fluent English
- Good knowledge of finance (cost benchmark & financial audit with key supplier) and legal matters (contracting)
- Experience on Risk management
- Demonstrated experience in managing global/ regional projects
- Good experience in negotiation and contracting
Why GSK
Career at one of the leading global healthcare companies
Contract of employment
Attractive reward package annual bonus & awards for outstanding performance recognition awards for additional achievements and engagement holiday benefit
Life insurance and pension plan
Private medical package with additional preventive healthcare services for employees and their eligible counterparts
Sports cards Multisport
Possibilities of development within the role and companys structure
Personalized learning approach (mentoring online training platforms: Pluralsight Business Skills Harvard Manage Mentor Skillsoft and external training)
Extensive support of work life balance (flexible working solutions short Fridays option health & wellbeing activities)
Supportive community and integration events
Modern office with creative rooms fresh fruits everyday
Free car and bike parking locker rooms and showers.
Inclusion & Diversity at GSK:
Inclusion and diversity at GSK are key for our success.
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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 its 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.
GSK is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive equal consideration for employment without regard to race color national origin religion sex pregnancy marital status sexual orientation gender identity/expression age disability genetic information military service covered/protected veteran status or any other federal state or local protected class.
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