Procurement Manager

Job description

Your Responsibilities :
Are you a result driven and ambitious procurement expert ready to take the next challenge? Do you want to work with great team as the single point of contact for the Pharma division/Consumer Healthcare division within GSK Nordics and Baltics reporting directly to Head of Procurement Nordics .

The purpose of the Procurement Manager role is to be the interface between the LOC stakeholders or Hubs (collection of countries) and the Global Procurement community to
• Ensure continuity of business
• Direct to the appropriate Regional Category Manager depending on the business requirement
• Support the business to understand the GSK Procurement policies and ensure that users are trained / supported accordingly

Procurement Manager ensures input to and alignment with the creation of Hub and global sourcing strategies, representing the needs of local stakeholders and local markets dynamics, in partnership with regional category team and the Global category teams.

Your responsibilities:
• procurement concentrating on indirect categories
• identifying and delivering business benefits aligned to assurance of supply, quality, service, cost and innovation
• delivering stakeholders and business partner requirements through execution of category strategies
• driving operational efficiencies by ensuring Contract & Preferred Supplier list compliance as well as managing the Tail spend
• delivering effective budgets (Plans of Purchase) agreed with key stakeholders and Finance in accordance with the Spend Management Framework and aligned to the global budgets together with Global and Regional category team

Key responsibilities:
• Supporting Strategy execution by aligning appropriate Hub and Global category teams, execute global sourcing strategies for multiple spend categories
• Have a clear understanding of how global strategies affect local markets and build an education & communication process for regional Procurement leads and business units
• Be the local expert in the spend categories
• Ensuring financial benefits are managed in accordance with the Spend Management Framework approach
• Create and deliver effective budgets (Plans of Purchase) agreed with key stakeholders and Finance in accordance with the Spend Management Framework
• Business partnering & stakeholder management in GSK by building strategic relationships with local GSK stakeholders to understand business requirements, identify opportunities to create value
• Lead the external supplier relationships by executing and managing effective contracts with suppliers that will allow GSK to maximize opportunity globally
• Manage the local supply base for the categories within scope through a robust performance management process.
• Supply chain management by ensuring the supply chain to releases value and makes GSK more responsive to business and customer needs
• Risk management by identifying and managing significant risks in the supply chain

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Why You?

Basic qualifications:
• Fluent English (spoken & written)
• Experience working with local laws & regulations
• Bachelor's degree on relevant field (marketing, finance, logistics or procurement)
• At least 3 years of experience in Procurement processes, developing & implementing strategies, stakeholder management and supplier relationship management
• Demonstrated experience in influencing strategy and managing within a LOC (across countries within a region) and business units
• Demonstrated significant experience in managing projects within a LOC needs and regulation (eg taxes, law, regulation)
• Full knowledge to successfully utilize Microsoft tools
• Strong influencing and inter personal skills
• Strategic Thinking to build relationship (with stakeholders and suppliers) and create sourcing plans
• Managing fast, efficient and transparent information flows
• Ability to solve issues/blockage, beware of risks, support implementation and robustly forecast spend and saving

Preferred qualifications:
• Master's degree on relevant field
• Local language skills (One or more Nordic/Baltic languages)

Why GSK? :
Why GSK?
At GSK, our mission is to improve the quality of human life by enabling people to do more, feel better and live longer. Our three world-leading businesses research and deliver innovative medicines, vaccines and consumer healthcare products. We need a talented and motivated workforce to deliver against our strategy. To achieve this, we strive to attract the best people and to create an environment that empowers and inspires

Who are Global Procurement at GSK?
We are a centralized and integrated organization, delivering value to GSK through partnership with stakeholders and our supply base. Our team is comprised of 700+ colleagues in over 65 countries. Collectively we manage over £11B in spend across a substantial breadth of spend categories. We do this through an approach centered around Global Category Management and through embedded presence and engagement with our stakeholders in local country teams and manufacturing sites.

What role does Procurement play in delivering the GSK strategy?
Procurement at GSK continues to develop into an important strategic business partner with a high expectation to help create value for GSK not only through delivering savings to the business but from working with great suppliers who help deliver high quality goods and services to GSK impacting both our bottom line and top line growth.

What's the future for Global Procurement?
We will be an integrated organization with value added business partnering relationships, deep category expertise in the right places, and effective supplier relationship management practices. We are focused on streamlining business processes, efficiently managing a strong pipeline of value-adding projects, and delivering maximum value for GSK

Contact information:
You may apply for this position online by selecting the Apply now button.

Contact information:
You may apply for this position online by selecting the Apply now button.

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