Head of Logistics Procurement

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Head of Logistics Procurement

A healthier future. It's what drives us to innovate. To continuously advance science and ensure everyone has access to the healthcare they need today and for generations to come. Creating a world where we all have more time with the people we love. That's what makes us Roche.

Healthcare is evolving, and Global Procurement is responding by continuously striving for the highest possible performance, taking innovative and strategic approaches to business and supplier partnerships.  Global Procurement proactively manages the entire supplier ecosystem, making a vital contribution to improving health outcomes, reducing costs for patients and global healthcare systems, and ensuring that Roche continues doing now what patients need next.

The Opportunity:

The Delivery capability covers the core procurement activities from category management, strategic and operational sourcing, supplier management, contracting, content strategy definition, and execution. The Delivery capability Materials, Manufacturing and Capex (MMC) comprises many communities grouping categories of the same value chain or having commonality. The communities are key enablers of strong category expertise while allowing flexibility in the procurement delivery response to the evolving needs of our customers.

This position is part of the Materials, Manufacturing and Capex Procurement Delivery leadership team reporting into the Head of Materials, Manufacturing and Capex Procurement.

As the Head of Logistics Procurement, you will work in a dynamic global environment where you will meet the challenge to bring vision, guidance, prioritization, and focus to the Procurement Delivery capability area such as team vision, capability development, and strategic Delivery prioritization (in line with functional objectives and business needs). 

You are a collaborator and through partnership with internal procurement Heads and Leads you will align on needs, identify opportunities, define goals, and advance priorities. You influence decision-making and remove barriers to ensure the delivery of high-quality customer-oriented sourcing and spend management strategies.

You will lead and guide a global team of Procurement Managers and Senior Procurement Managers, working closely with them to develop the team vision, prioritize and focus efforts, and provide coaching and guidance to support your team's development and growth both as individuals and as a team. 

You are accountable for the best allocation of your people to ensure flexibility, excellence in execution, delivery and performance, and talent development.

The Head of Logistics Procurement will play a variety of roles according to your experience, knowledge, and the general business/team requirements, including, but not limited to, these core responsibilities:

• You utilize your in depth knowledge and expertise in Logistics, Transportation, Warehousing to act as a Delivery domain lead providing thought leadership, advice, and know-how on delivery capability topics, strategies, and best practices, and shaping and defining the category area vision and priorities.

• You are a Developer overseeing, improving and driving delivery of sourcing, category and supplier related strategies as well as coaching team members, including modeling agile behaviors and mindsets necessary for advancing the capability vision.

• You act as an accelerator and advocate providing guidance to align on and co-create enhancements and development of automated delivery offerings, enhancing business satisfaction and driving efficiencies.

• You work within the capability teams, networks, and squads/project teams to ensure prioritization and focus on delivering or supporting both project and foundational work. 

• You are accountable for the performance of a medium team of Sr. Procurement Managers and Procurement Managers acting as a role model, demonstrating curiosity, passion, an entrepreneurial spirit, enterprise thinking, inclusive collaboration, and desire for continuous learning that underpin our culture and ways of working.

Who you are:

• You hold a university degree, with a business or life science degree preferable.

• You have 10+ years procurement experience (strategic and operational procurement experience, including relevant related warehousing, transportation and logistics category experience and expertise), ideally in a matrix organization.

• You have demonstrated success in building, cultivating and managing global medium to large teams. 

• You have demonstrated experience in procurement end-to-end operations.

• You have proven excellent leadership, communication, conflict resolution, and influencing skills. 

• You have deep knowledge and experience in the relevant warehousing, transportation and logistics category areas, strong knowledge of adjacent categories and overall understanding of other categories.

• You are experienced in project management including change management and process improvement with direct experience in delivering complex business process / organizational change projects.

• You strive to act as an enterprise thinker and leverage knowledge and expertise to create solutions for business customers by proactively fostering collaboration, including across the procurement network.

• You are action oriented and can make decisions and influence others to do the same; you repurpose work and ideas in favor of starting from scratch. 

• You demonstrate curiosity, active listening and a willingness to experiment and test new ideas when appropriate, with the focus very much on continuous learning and improvement.

• You work with colleagues across procurement, business and the wider Roche organization to broaden knowledge and expertise, better understand customer needs, and connect the dots.

• You are open-minded and inclusive, generously sharing ideas and knowledge, while being receptive to ideas and feedback from others.

• You have fluency in English to Business level.

Note: Relocation benefits are not available for this posting.

What you get:

• Full-time employment based on an employment contract.

• Annual bonus payment based on your performance.

• Car / Car allowance.

• Dedicated training budget (training, certifications, conferences, diversified career paths etc.).

• Recharge Fridays (2 Fridays off per quarter available).

• Take time Program (up to 3 months of leave to use for any purpose).

• Vacation subsidy available.

• Flex Location (possibility to perform our work from different places in the world for a certain period of time).

• Take Time for Charity (additional paid leave of maximum 2 weeks to engage in the charity action of your choice).

• Private healthcare (LuxMed packages), group life insurance (UNUM) and Multisport.

• Stock share purchase additions.

• Yearly sales of company laptops and cars and many more

Note: Relocation benefits are not available for this posting.
 

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