Senior Manager - Procurement

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GSK is one of the world’s foremost pharmaceutical and healthcare companies, and we are proud to be part of an industry that improves the lives of others. We are embarking on a significant transformation journey that will support GSK in becoming a top-quartile data-enabled organization. Are you a Procurement expert with the confidence and creativity to negotiate and innovate? Join us and make an impact on our business on a whole range of levels. GSK Procurement is a pioneering, influencing function with approximately 500 members across 50 countries who buy goods and services on a global scale and support our core functions. But we do more in global procurement than just purchase things. We partner with business units to drive value from supplier relationships to support GSK’s strategies and targets to ensure a secure supply. With a stream of diverse and interesting projects, procurement is a fascinating area with tremendous scope for progress. This role will provide YOU the opportunity to lead key activities to progress YOUR career. These responsibilities include some of the following. Responsibilities: Senior Manager, Procurement will be responsible for the delivery of the critical Source to Contract across indirect categories with a focus on Facilities, Capital & Logistics. This role will collaborate with the procurement global category and local market teams (LOC) to deliver sourcing, negotiation and contract execution services to the global procurement organisation. This service is a cornerstone of the future procurement operating model and will enable the function to industrialize its core operation, driving best practice, providing practical knowledge for development of best-in-class category strategies, consistency of execution, and continual improvement. Strategy Execution • Execute sourcing and contracting projects for spend categories in scope of responsibility aligned with the requirements of stakeholders and business partnering with global category team. • Deliver benefits identified in strategies, local, regional and global, through effective and collaborative strategy execution, aligned to assurance of supply (risk management), quality, service, cost and innovation. • To ensure GSK’s procurement policies, procedures, processes, systems and methodologies are utilized in a compliant manner. • Deliver savings and other set KPIs critical to global procurement plans as aligned with key stakeholders and Finance in accordance with the Savings Methodology and global budgets. Sourcing & Contracting • Partner with Category & LOC Procurement teams to execute global / regional / local sourcing projects. • Execute and deliver contracting requirements in line with organization’s requirements. Business Partnering & Stakeholder Management in GSK • Collaborate with key stakeholders to deploy strategies globally/regionally, facilitated by robust implementation and transition plans. • Demonstrated success in collaboration with a wide range of senior leaders across business areas. • Resolve escalations, including from senior business stakeholders, timely and tactfully. • Understand and efficiently navigate organizational complexity to deliver set goals. We are looking for a Sourcing Senior Manager, Procurement and if you have these skills, we would like to speak to you • 8-12 years of relevant experience in FC&L category • This role should have strong demonstrated procurement expertise in commercial and contract negotiations, strategic sourcing, Indirect category management, cost model synthesis and supplier relationship management for delivering multi-country, high spend complex engagements. • Demonstrated experience in navigating through organizational complexity, collaborating simultaneously with multiple teams, influencing wi

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