Job Purpose:

The Japan Head, R&D Procurement will be accountable for Japan R&D Procurement capabilities for Clinical, Medical & Regulatory, with accountability for supporting the country implementation of certain category strategies. He/She will also be responsible for supporting local R&D Procurement requirements within Japan for the categories in scope. This will include alignment with the key GSK leaders responsible for these goods & services; the development and implementation of category strategies where it makes sense; the contracting for master/service/product agreements within the categories; the management of supplier relationships that fall outside of the enterprise SRM structure for these categories; and for ensuring the key global and regional suppliers commit to deliver GSK’s performance/quality/financial requirements.

He/She will also be part of Asia R&D Procurement to provide necessary support in other Asian countries beyond Japan region when needed

Key Responsibilities:

• Manage a spend of ~£50million by creating comprehensive localized sourcing, contracting, and supplier relationship management strategies for the relevant categories.
• Demonstrate in-depth knowledge of the in-scope categories, their relevant industries/markets, and GSK’s forward-looking capability requirements and use this knowledge to engage with senior stakeholders to help shape, assess, and source GSK’s R&D requirements.
• Attract, retain, develop, and grow professional sourcing, contracting, and supplier relationship management talent.  This includes developing the broad capabilities, both technical and behavioural, for all direct reports, indirect reports, and matrixed reports to drive continued improvements to team performance.
• Role model and consistently demonstrate GSK values and behaviours, foster the environment of a modern employer and promote GSK network/brand.
• Deliver cultural change to enable an organisation focused on decision-making accountability, quality, speed, performance, results, and collaboration.
• Ensure clarity of roles/job descriptions, expectations/objectives, and development plans for all team members.
• Ensure Master and service-level agreements are strategically aligned with R&D Business goals by engaging all relevant stakeholders in the sourcing strategy and contract management activities and delivering a strategy for most efficient contracting and buying-channel.
• For select suppliers, establish and manage SRM structure aligned with broader R&D Procurement SRM structure.
• Build strategic relationships and ensure the appropriate communication strategy is in place with relevant senior GSK stakeholders; understand business requirements, identify opportunities to create value, position Procurement’s value proposition, and align sourcing strategies to assurance of supply (risk management), compliance, quality, service, cost and innovation.
• Create compelling business cases for change and obtain approval to execute from GSK R&D and/or other support functions (Finance, HR, etc.) senior management; agree how benefits will be achieved and accounted for.

Build strategic relationships with leaders of key suppliers to ensure the value of the supplier-GSK relationship is optimised; account for cross-GSK requirements in supplier relationships and leverage business review meeting process to drive the relationship.

This role will interact with JET and JET-1 leaders to nurture collaboration across GSK.  The role holder will establish connections with senior leaders of key suppliers and influence supplier long term strategy.

必要な条件Basic Qualification:

University or Master’s Degree in Business, Finance, Sciences

The job also requires highly developed:

• contract and negotiation skills
• team building and networking skills
• leadership skills
• communication and engagement skills
• partnership skills
• influencing skills to drive strategy development and delivery
• change management skills
• experience with relevant procurement categories
• experience in leading teams in both a direct and matrixed environment
• English proficiency (written and oral)
• Experience building a high-performing team, with efficient and effective processes; develop culture and priorities focused on delivering quality, compliant, timely, well-specified agreements to generate a clear return on investment for GSK. 
• Ability to deliver impactful and transformational sourcing strategies to accelerate R&D pipeline delivery in a budget constrained environment and support growth sales ambition.
• Extensive market knowledge of supplier capabilities (current and future) is required to acquire and maintain competitive advantage.

The role will have to embrace a number of factors which may create complexity.  These include:

• newly-combined organisation, representing multiple legacy teams
• need to represent GSK R&D companywide, including Rx (with ViiV), Vx, and Cx
• evolving development pipeline, including recent and potential mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, and JVs
• varying levels of leadership and business maturity towards supplier requirements, performance management, and outsourcing across GSK
• new and emerging technologies
• fragmented supply-base and market
• need to consider end-to-end perspective from discovery through early development and from product launch through continued development post-launch

Why GSK?

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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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