Director, Procurement Center of Excellence
4 tygodni temu
Site Name: USA - Pennsylvania - Upper Providence, Belgium, Durham Blackwell Street, Greater Poland, Lesser Poland, UK – London – New Oxford Street
Posted Date: Feb 18 2025
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 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 enable GSK's strategies and targets to achieve our purpose to get ahead of diseases together to serve over 2.5 billion Patients with leading pharmaceutical/specialty medicines and vaccines. With a stream of diverse and interesting projects, Procurement is a fascinating area with tremendous scope for progress.
Strategy Director (Directs & Sites Procurement, FFM Procurement)Location: US, UK, Belgium, Poland
About the Role:The Strategy Director will contribute to the development of functional strategy and execution. This role will provide strategic support to a Vice President(s) in Procurement across a wide array of responsibilities and initiatives and be a key member of a GPLT-1 Leadership team. Frequent leadership of or participation in cross-functional teams is a core part of this role. Role requires significant amount of internal engagement, utilizing strong interpersonal skills, influence management and change management. He/she will implement and ensure execution of key initiatives against timeline and deliverables, including identifying bottlenecks, resolving issues, and driving towards effective and standardized completion.
Key Responsibilities:- Operating in a fast-paced environment that requires ability to seamlessly shift across a wide variety of responsibilities. Act as a trusted business partner providing high degree of responsiveness and attention to detail across a wide variety of topics and priorities, driving the organization to focus on the most impactful and critical activities. Prepare and facilitate GPLT-1 Leadership Team meetings. Lead and provide input into GSK Leadership Team (GLT) presentations, and senior leader engagements; coordinate high quality preparation for key CPO and LT meetings within procurement and with stakeholders/cross functional teams.
- Facilitate transformation efforts; partner closely with GPLT to drive change management across a complex function of 500+ colleagues geographically dispersed across 50+ countries. In addition to integration, ongoing efforts will include ways-of-working transformation (e.g., business process outsourcing or insourcing), business process changes and continued enhancements in functional maturity.
- Lead the alignment of Global Procurement inputs into BU-updates, enabling a category-oriented procurement organization to effectively maintain matrix relationships to key stakeholders. Partner effectively across all areas of Global Procurement to drive activities and priorities in support of the BU business needs. Regularly interact with senior BU stakeholders up to GLT and BU CFO.
- In partnership with Performance and Finance teams, enable creation of team KPI's in alignment with overall GPLT goals, enabling visibility and management monitoring for savings and value creation portfolio; functional accountability for annual plan and inputs to finance cycles (e.g., MYE or Plan submissions). Enable Global Procurement to achieve goals via performance management, portfolio management and focused improvement efforts as required.
- Lead or support opportunity identification for the supported categories and/or business reviews through activities such as top-down budget/expense reviews, leading ideation sessions, or driving best practice benchmarking.
- Facilitate team approach for key programs, including Stakeholder Management (inclusive of stakeholder mapping) and Supplier Relationship Management framework.
- Support Global Procurement's participation in external benchmarking efforts; Deliver intelligence on external best practices for Procurement in support of GSK's efforts in ongoing maturity enhancement. Enhance relative maturity and capabilities through transformation programs, benchmarking, and execution efforts.
- Supports the alignment between central programs (e.g., Policy/Risk/Compliance, Supplier Diversity, SRM) and functional teams.
- Drive communication and engagement strategy within function, in alignment with overall GP Communications strategy and cadence.
- Other projects/duties to be assigned as needed/appropriate. Examples may include process creation/enhancement, cross-functional team participation, MA&D support, etc.
If you have these skills, we would like to speak to you:
- Bachelor's degree and 5+ years or 10 years procurement experience.
- 2+ years leading teams.
- Experience across direct and indirect procurement.
- Experience management and execution against a number of critical objectives.
- Experience operating in a fast-paced environment that requires ability to seamlessly shift across a wide variety of responsibilities.
- Ability to act as a trusted business partner providing high degree of responsiveness and attention to detail across a wide variety of topics and priorities.
- Motivation for professional development and willingness to coach, mentor, and train others.
- Significant experience working in a matrix business environment.
- Superior networking skills and a proven ability to build productive and collaborative relationships with senior stakeholders and business partners.
- Demonstrated high learning agility; proven ability to solve complex problems with limited oversight.
- Solid understanding of procurement best practices, policies, and tools.
- Experience developing presentations and business cases for executive audience.
- Ability to work in high pressure environment, often under tight deadlines.
- High level of fluency in spoken and written English.
February 28, 2025
Please visit GSK US Benefits Summary to learn more about the comprehensive benefits program GSK offers US employees.
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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