Assistant General Counsel, Procurement (Senior Director)

Possible locations: UK preferred. US (Philadelphia or Durham) or Belgium (Wavre) are also acceptable

The deadline for the job posting is the 30th of October in 2024

Are you energized by working in a fast changing and highly complex legal environment?  If so, this exciting role could be an ideal opportunity for you.

In this role as Assistant General Counsel, Procurement, you will be the legal business partner for Global Procurement and a member of the Global Procurement Leadership Team. In addition, you will lead the legal team that supports Global Commercial and Tech Procurement and WREF. 

The role involves transactional support for, and counselling on, a wide range of activities critical to the commercialization of our medicines including digital innovation/AI, marketing services, contract sales, and real estate.  You will lead a team of three lawyers within the Legal Contracting Network (LCN) who support Tech, Services and WREF.  In addition, this role will work closely with the Head of LCN to improve systems and processes related to contracting. Strategic-level thinking is essential, as is exceptional judgment, ability to collaborate with and influence senior stakeholders and other legal colleagues, and a strong work ethic.  Must be energized by working in a dynamic environment and in a matrix-fashion to develop solutions to complex business needs.

Key responsibilities:

This role will provide you the opportunity to lead key activities to progress your career.  These responsibilities include some of the following:

Procurement Legal Business Partner

• Serve as a member of the Global Procurement Leadership Team (GPLT), advising GSK's Chief Procurement Officer and members of the GPLT with respect to GSK’s third-party global supply network and other Procurement transactions that impact Commercial, R&D, Supply Chain, Tech, WREF and other categories of direct and indirect procurement
• Understand and contribute to the ongoing evolution of Procurement-led programs that intersect with contracting, including TPRM and Buying Goods & Services

Transactional Support

• Provide comprehensive legal advice and support on a wide range of transactional matters, including complex technology, marketing & sales vendor/supplier contracts, including vendor relations and dispute resolution. Apply a pragmatic, solution-oriented approach, with a commitment to clear communication and timely response
• Draft, review, and negotiate complex contracts and agreements to protect GSK’s interests and ensure compliance with applicable laws and regulations

Legal Operations Management

• Continuously improve our ability to track and measure delivery of contract support, applying business and technical innovations (e.g., strategic planning, data analytics, technology adoption) to the delivery of contracting services
• Develop and implement strategies to streamline legal processes, enhance workflows, and leverage technology to optimize legal operations
• Serve as a member of GSK's contracting transformation and CLM implementation core team

Team Leadership

• Manage and mentor a team of three direct reports, providing guidance, support, and professional development opportunities
• Foster a collaborative and inclusive team environment, promoting continuous learning and growth

Requirements:

• Qualified attorney
• At least 10 years of experience with procurement contracting

We are looking for a someone who has the learning agility, continuous-improvement mindset, ability to influence stakeholders across the matrix and work ethic to leverage this opportunity to develop leadership and capability in the contracting space.  More specifically, are you someone who has demonstrated ability to:

• Seek opportunities to engage and drive projects that move our function forward
• Be self-motivated from project start to finish, with the ability to anticipate organizational needs and proactively offer solutions, and independently identify areas of opportunity
• Lead in terms of usage of GSK systems and data, with a focus on driving skills and approaches for the future in Legal & Compliance – e.g., technology
• Bring innovation + a growth mindset around ‘problem solving’ / bringing ‘solutions’ to the business
• Actively seek to develop relationships within Legal and Compliance team members and actively collaborate at a peer level to identify opportunities
• Exemplify enterprise leadership through an ability to take an enterprise approach vs. operating in a silo
• Actively drive diversity and inclusion within teams
• Establish a network outside of GSK with industry peers that enables external perspective to benefit delivery of GSK strategy

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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).

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