Are you energized by a procurement leadership role where you can drive strategy and shape procurement objectives across the organization?  If so, this senior manager role could be an exciting opportunity to explore.

As a Senior Category Manager for Facilities, Security, and Workwear, you will:

• Assist in the development, execution, and continued maintenance of comprehensive global sourcing strategies aligned with GSK business stakeholder needs

• Be a member of a team responsible for £300m annual spend related to Facilities Management; ensuring compliance to project budgets and schedules
• Collaborate closely with senior leaders to ensure the safety of GSK’s facilities
• Contribute to overall organizational goals by meeting or exceeding annual cost reduction and avoidance goals
• Establish and maintain strong relationships with key stakeholders, ensuring business alignment on critical objectives
• Manage risk effectively via well-constructed commercial and contractual agreements with third parties
• Keep abreast of market trends and commodity drivers; leverage same to effect strategies and develop annual cost reduction commitments

Why you?

Basic Qualifications:

We are looking for professionals with these required skills to achieve our goals:

• Bachelor’s degree
• 5+ years experience leading procurement for facilities category
• Experience using Ariba & SAP systems
• Experience with Enterprise Facilities Management Programs, Security and Workwear categories

Preferred Qualifications:

If you have the following characteristics, it would be a plus:

• Master's degree
• Proven negotiations and contract management skills
• English proficiency (written and oral), other language will be a plus
• Leadership/communication skills

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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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