Sr Director Procurement - Tech
Sr Director Procurement - Tech
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Join GSK as the Sr. Director Global Procurement Technology where you will strategically partner with our Technology & Digital organization. Your primary areas of focus will include enterprise software infrastructure and enduser services amongst other subcategories. With substantial thirdparty spend and critical supplier relationships under your purview youll drive procurement strategies that are integral to achieving GSKs most crucial performance objectives. Your role will be pivotal in delivering significant annual savings forging robust supplier partnerships and mitigating risks to safeguard GSKs interests.
Key Responsibilities:
- Business Partnering:Develop closely aligned partnerships with multiple business areas and BUs with primary focus on the Digital & Technology organization. Build deep understanding of the business within yourself and your team. Bring an outcomesoriented approach developing procurement strategies that enable the critical commercial priorities. Deliver strategies that enable effective resource management optimizing third party spend (and total costs) to achieve the outcomes most important to the business and our ambition for patients. Put simply: youll play a key role in bringing innovative medicines and vaccines to patients globally via technology solutions.
- Supplier Engagement & Management:Utilize Supplier Relationship Management and performance management processes to drive priority business outcomes and foster innovative solutions. Cultivate strategic relationships with Techs strategic partners and key suppliers at senior levels to ensure strong partnerships delivery and value creation.
- Thought Leadership:Build external relationships and knowledge sources for insights and idea generation ensuring uptodate market knowledge is leveraged in our strategies.
- Category Strategies:Tie together business needs external insights and marketplace knowledge to craft mid to longterm category strategies that align with GSKs business goals including ESG strategies partnering with stakeholders and peers across local regional and global levels.
- Contracts & Compliance Management:Leverage strong commercial and legal acumen to negotiate execute and manage impactful global and regional contracts to maximize GSKs opportunities while minimizing risk. Ensure compliance with company policies procedures and ethical standards in all procurement activities.
- People Leadership:Lead and develop a diverse and highperformance procurement team fostering a culture of excellence and continuous improvement.
- DigitallyEnabled:Be an earlyadopter and role model of new technologies within our function and in GSK. Engage closely in the development of new technologies and processes/workflows that bring new value to GSK. Identify and execute buying channel best practices whilst embracing process orchestration with embedded AI for create efficient and effective enduser experiences while optimizing our spend and supply base and seamlessly managing third party risks. We are rapidly changing and innovating how we digitally enable our processes and youll be a key part of this evolution.
Basic Qualifications:
- Bachelors degree.
- 15 years of procurement or relevant business experience with at least 5 years in a leadership role.
- People management experience leading both direct and matrix teams.
- Proficiency in English (written and oral).
Preferred Qualifications:
- Indepth knowledge of technology spend categories including but not limited to software infrastructure enduser services telephony cybersecurity platforms and services and reseller/aggregators; proven ability to develop and execute procurement strategies in these areas that align with business objectives and strategies.
- Proven experience negotiating contracting and managing relationships with Technology mega suppliers.
- Strong research business financial acumen and analytical skills to develop solutions to complex problems and analyze financial proposals.
- Capability to solve issues manage risks support implementation and robustly forecast spend and savings.
- Strategic planning and highlevel negotiation and contract management skills for longterm multicountry highvalue contracts.
- Demonstrated success in a complex global organization.
- Proven experience in leading and developing diverse and highperformance teams
- Strong influencing and interpersonal skills.
- Excellent leadership and communication skills.
- Experience in developing and growing teams.
- Ability to work in a fastpaced dynamic environment and manage multiple priorities.
- Experience in pharmaceutical or related industries.
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.
As an Equal Opportunity Employer we are open to all talent. In the US we also adhere to Affirmative Action principles. This ensures that all qualified applicants will receive equal consideration for employment without regard to neurodiversity race/ethnicity colour national origin religion gender 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**US only).
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