US Procurement Manager

We are looking for someone to join our high performing ViiV Procurement team to take on the role of Procurement Manager for ViiV for our critical US ViiV business.  In the team, we are the ‘face’ of procurement to the ViiV Healthcare business – our exciting fast-paced specialist HIV business. If you are willing to grow and develop motivated by a patient focus organization which makes an impact in people’s lives, this could be the right opportunity for you. This role represents a great opportunity for you to build strong relationships with a variety of diverse stakeholders across the ViiV business. You will use these relationships to understand objectives, priorities, business strategy and work, along with the US ViiV head of procurement, to advise how procurement can help achieve these goals. This may include ambitious cost savings, driving value including top line growth and managing risk and/or ensuring that the right suppliers are being chosen. All supporting the overall ViiV strategy.   It is a fantastic chance for someone to be part of ViiV mission to leave no person living with HIV behind. Due to the scope and influence of the role, it will also present various development opportunities as your career with GSK continues.   Key Responsibilities: Strategy execution • Work closely with the ViiV commercial business to facilitate execution of their commercial strategies through procurement strategy and expertise • Align with Global category teams and work in collaboration with these teams to provide ViiV business requirements through preferred suppliers • Execute global sourcing strategies for multiple spend categories (across commercial, corporate and tech) in scope of responsibility, operating with a truly global mindset and ensuring all applicable ViiV needs are accommodated • Be the local expert in agreed spend categories and ViiV BU’s within scope of responsibility Benefit delivery • Ensure financial benefits are managed in accordance with the Savings methodology approach, ensuring business unit and Finance agreement to financial value delivered and transparency on treatment of benefits in the budgeting process • Negotiate goods and services contracts with suppliers that secure favourable terms for ViiV in line with the agreed business requirements Business partnering & stakeholder management in GSK • Build strategic relationships with ViiV stakeholders, to understand business requirements, identify opportunities to create value and to position Procurement’s value proposition. Align sourcing strategies accordingly • Influence key stakeholders and business partners to support strategy development, endorse recommended strategies, support execution and agree how benefit delivery will be budgeted External supplier relationships • Execute and manage effective contracts with suppliers that will allow ViiV to maximize opportunity globally. Ensure global views on supplier negotiations are taken • Identification/evaluation of new vendors in line with agreed business requirements, as well as tracking and monitoring of service level agreements and performance standards for existing vendors • Build skillsets across a variety of procurement tools, systems and process to enable supplier onboarding, contracting, purchase to pay, eSourcing, spend analysis and risk management. Supply chain & risk management • Contribute to the transformation of the supply chain to release value and make ViiV more responsive to business and customer needs – for example in cost control, complexity reduction, simplification, best practice procurement and use of KPIs • Identify and manage risks in the supply chain. Ensure appropriate mitigation plans are in place and in use and that the risks are communicated appropriately within business units