Are you energized by the challenge of accelerating a procurement organization at a biopharma company that cares about being ambitious for patients, while being accountable for impact and doing the right thing? If so, this Procurement Senior Manager role could be an exciting opportunity to consider.

As a Procurement Senior Manager, you will be accountable for supporting the US business through the full procurement lifecycle from stakeholder engagement and sourcing to contracting and supplier management.

This role will provide YOU the opportunity to lead key activities to progress YOUR career, these responsibilities include some of the following:

Strategy execution

• Represent the best interests of the market by aligning with appropriate Regional and Global category teams. Work in collaboration with these teams as the local expert to provide local business requirements and market information to support effective regional and global strategy creation and execution.
• Execute global and local sourcing strategies for multiple spend categories in scope of responsibility, specifically Market Research/Data, Tech & Digital, and Media (Patient & Professional), operating with a truly global mindset and ensuring all applicable market or regional dimensions are accommodated.
• Understand commercial standards and ensure category alignment for processes and services with third parties.
• Support the business to understand GSK Procurement policies and ensure that users are trained / supported accordingly. Be the local expert on third party oversight and risk management frameworks to protect GSK in supplier interactions and contracting.

Benefit delivery

• Ensure financial benefits are managed in accordance with the Global spend management framework. Ensure business unit and Finance agreement to financial value delivered and transparency on treatment of benefits in the budgeting process.
• Deliver effective Procurement targets against budgets (Plans of Purchase) agreed with key stakeholders and Finance in accordance with the spend management framework and aligned to the global and regional budgets set out by the respective category teams.
• Identify and deliver value to the business aligned to assurance of supply, quality, service, cost, and innovation and delivering stakeholders and business partner requirements through execution of category strategies.
• Drive operational efficiencies by ensuring contract and preferred supplier list compliance as well as managing tail spend.

Business partnering

• Build strategic relationships with local GSK stakeholders to understand business requirements, identify opportunities to create value, and to express Procurement’s value proposition. Align sourcing strategies accordingly.
• Influence key stakeholders and business partners to support strategy development, endorse recommended strategies, support execution, and agree how benefit delivery will be budgeted.
• Ensure third party contracts are managed ahead of expiration dates for business continuity and strategic value.
• Define and negotiate commercial terms and manage contracting process as required to meet business requirements in collaboration with legal support.

External supplier relationships

• Execute and manage effective contracts with suppliers that will allow GSK to maximize opportunity globally and locally. Ensure global views on supplier negotiations are taken into consideration. Ensure all contracts are valid and updated in GSK’s contract management system.
• Manage the local supply base for the categories within scope through a robust supplier relationship and performance management process. Ensure supplier performance is understood and measured.
• Ensure effective processes and communication links exist between the above country supplier organization structures and local and regional networks. Cascade these through supplier and GSK network and geographies.

Supply chain and risk management

• Transform the supply chain to release value and make GSK more responsive to business and customer needs – for example in cost control, complexity reduction, simplification, best practice procurement and use of KPIs.
• Identify and manage significant risks in the supply chain. Ensure appropriate mitigation plans are in place, in use, and that the risks are communicated appropriately within business units impacted.

Why you?

Basic Qualifications:

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

• Bachelor’s degree

• 5+ years of experience in Indirect procurement supporting, Marketing services, Market Research/Data, Tech & Digital, and Media/Media Agencies operations

• Experience in procurement processes, third party contracting, stakeholder management, and supplier relationship management

Preferred Qualifications:

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

• Pharma / Biotech experience in a highly regulated marketing environment requiring a high degree of understanding to ensure compliance. 
• Experience working with media Agencies and all media channels (traditional and digital), including support of media measurement, defining KPIs and optimizing campaign performance.
• Effective communication skills to interact with stakeholders at various levels of the organization and our suppliers.
• Comfortable working with ambiguity/limited information.
• Negotiation and project management experience
• Ability to work effectively and communicate with stakeholders across a large/matrixed organization.
• Demonstrate expertise in Procurement processes, particularly with respect to developing and implementing significant strategies, stakeholder management and supplier relationship management.
• Evaluate and solve issues, beware of risks, support implementation and robustly forecast spend and savings
• Exceptional analytical skills.
• Full knowledge to successfully utilize Microsoft tools and SAP Ariba modules. 

#LI-GSK

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.

If you require an accommodation or other assistance to apply for a job at GSK, please contact the GSK Service Centre at 1-877-694-7547 (US Toll Free) or +1 801 567 5155 (outside US).

GSK is an Equal Opportunity Employer and, in the US, we adhere to Affirmative Action principles. This ensures that all qualified applicants will receive equal consideration for employment without regard to race, color, national origin, religion, sex, pregnancy, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, age, disability, genetic information, military service, covered/protected veteran status or any other federal, state or local protected class.

Important notice to Employment businesses/ Agencies

GSK does not accept referrals from employment businesses and/or employment agencies in respect of the vacancies posted on this site. All employment businesses/agencies are required to contact GSK's commercial and general procurement/human resources department to obtain prior written authorization before referring any candidates to GSK. The obtaining of prior written authorization is a condition precedent to any agreement (verbal or written) between the employment business/ agency and GSK. In the absence of such written authorization being obtained any actions undertaken by the employment business/agency shall be deemed to have been performed without the consent or contractual agreement of GSK. GSK shall therefore not be liable for any fees arising from such actions or any fees arising from any referrals by employment businesses/agencies in respect of the vacancies posted on this site.

Please note that if you are a US Licensed Healthcare Professional or Healthcare Professional as defined by the laws of the state issuing your license, GSK may be required to capture and report expenses GSK incurs, on your behalf, in the event you are afforded an interview for employment. This capture of applicable transfers of value is necessary to ensure GSK’s compliance to all federal and state US Transparency requirements. For more information, please visit GSK’s Transparency Reporting For the Record site.