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Site Procurement Manager

Are you energized by a procurement leadership role where you can drive efficiency and shape procurement objectives across the organization? Are you fantastic with analytics and driven to deliver brilliant results? If so, this Site Procurement Manager role could be an exciting opportunity to explore.

As Site Procurement Manager, you will be responsible for driving and leading the performance management of all key initiatives and projects in the Local Procurement area, across multiple categories of spend and cross functionally across the wider GSK business, to ensure the delivery of key business objectives and benefits.

This role will provide you the opportunity to lead key activities to progress your career, these responsibilities include the following:

Financial analytics:

• Skilled with financial analytics, setting standard costs and the site financial plan. Able to operate under pressure and skilled collaboration with site and global finance and global commodity teams.

Business strategy

• Develop and propose long and short-term plans to improve Procurement processes to enhance the overall performance of the Sites. Manage the interfaces between Procurement and the Site, balancing the expectations of both Procurement and Site stakeholders.
• Ensure that Site requirements are considered within the definition and implementation of Global Category strategies and develop and implement Procurement strategies for local categories of spend that clearly meet business requirements

Procurement Management:

• Lead the Procurement function across the Aranda site (Directs and Indirects), develop and manage the Sites supply base to meet GSK’s requirements: assurance of supply, quality, regulatory, service, cost, and innovation to control costs in a fast-moving environment.  Adapt and respond to regularly changing business requirements. 
• For specific categories, actively negotiate contracts. Reduce the Directs, Manufacturing & Indirects costs across the Aranda site.  Support the reduction of end-to-end total costs of the Sites. Co-ordinate support from multiple Category teams and work within a matrix organisation.

Team:

• You will manage one Procurement professionals across the manufacturing location and spanning two business units : Pharma, Oral Solid Dose(Tablets). You will be responsible to train, supervise, develop and the Site Procurement Specialist.  Lead and motivate him/her s towards the pursuit of operational excellence and attainment of best practices.  In addition, promote empowerment and process ownership.

Basic Qualifications:

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

• Bachelor’s degree, preferably science or business based.
• Operational Procurement / Supply Chain experience across multiple categories of spend (ideally with some experience of regulated environments).
• Financial analytics background
• Clear & proactive communicator.
• Direct experience leading procurement for a specific supply category, or more generically across site level spend (Direct or Indirect).
• Ability to drive & implement change and demonstrating accountability and tenacity for delivery.
• Enterprise mindset – translating & mapping Procurement goals to business needs.
• Demonstrated team leadership and ability to motivate and inspire colleagues, and work in partnership with others to drive, implement and support change.
• Fluent English, spoken & written.

Preferred Qualifications:

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

• MBA
• Exceptional communication and influencing skills across internal GSK teams and external suppliers globally.
• Ability to operate and influence across all business units and across multiple disciplines
• CI Mindset – operational excellence trained

Job posting end date: 25/08/2024

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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