Senior Procurement Manager – Professional Services

Job description

Nombre del sítio: UK - London - Brentford
Fecha de publicación: Feb 19 2024

We create a place where people can grow, be their best, be safe, and feel welcome, valued and included. We offer a competitive salary, an annual bonus based on company performance, healthcare and wellbeing programmes, pension plan membership, and shares and savings programme.

We embrace modern work practises; our Performance with Choice programme offers a hybrid working model, empowering you to find the optimal balance between remote and in-office work.

Discover more about our company wide benefits and life at GSK on our webpage Life at GSK | GSK

We’re moving towards a more sustainable future with our new headquarters. With better public transport links and proximity to world-class science and technology institutions, we’re excited for our move to the vicinity of Earnshaw Street, London WC1A (“the New HQ”) by end H1 2024.

Senior Procurement Manager – Professional Services

As the Senior Procurement Manager for the Professional and Legal Services Team you will represent GSK and act as the interface for Strategic Consultants and our business ensuring the scope and commercials fit the profile of the business needs and strategic direction.  

This role represents a great opportunity to build strong relationships with a variety of diverse and senior stakeholders globally across all parts of GSK. You will need to build and maintain relationships to understand the company’s overall objectives and then advise how procurement can help achieve these goals.

This may include ambitious cost savings, managing risk and/or ensuring that the right suppliers are being chosen and/or if a third party is required or whether there are alternative solutions such as in-house or outsourcing approaches. 

In this role you will…

·  Manage the end to end process to develop category sourcing approach and drive value generation across categories within Professional Services
·  Execute global sourcing strategies across multiple spend categories in scope of responsibility, operating with a truly global mindset and ensuring all applicable markets or regional dimensions are accommodated
·  Drive synergies where appropriate with other Corporate services categories 
·  Contract planning, negotiation, execution, interpretation and maintenance; conducts and monitors negotiations across the applicable categories of spend
·  Knows the sourcing group management process and policies; assesses risk
·  Awareness and adherence to risk/ regulatory/ compliance requirements
·  Develop & execute supplier relationship management
·  Implements procurement strategies to maximise supplier leverage in a complex matrix organisation

Closing Date for Applications: Monday 4th March 2024

Please take a copy of the Job Description, as this will not be available post closure of the advert.
When applying for this role, please use the ‘cover letter’ of the online application or your CV to describe how you meet the competencies for this role, as outlined in the job requirements above.

The information that you have provided in your cover letter and CV will be used to assess your application.

Why you?

Basic Qualifications/Experience:

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

·  Qualified to Degree level, ideally within Procurement and Supply Chain, and/or further academic qualifications
·  End to End global category experience from strategy development to execution on indirect spend 
·  Ability to build strong relationships with a variety of diverse and senior stakeholders
·  Excellent communication skills & leadership capability to manage people and processes
·  Innovative thinking to drive changes and process improvements
·  Ability to work in a complex and multi-cultural environment
·  Excellent business acumen, analytical, and financial skills

Preferred Qualifications/Experience:

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

·  Strong presentation skills
·  Extensive experience working with large global suppliers/consultants
·  Previous marketing or indirect category experience

Como empresa impulsada por nuestros valores de enfoque al paciente, transparencia, respeto e integridad, sabemos que la inclusión y la diversidad son esenciales para que podamos tener éxito. Queremos que todos nuestros colegas prosperen en GSK, brindando sus experiencias únicas, asegurándonos de que se sientan bien y que sigan creciendo en sus carreras.  Como candidato para un papel, queremos que usted se sienta de la misma manera.

Creemos en una cultura de trabajo ágil para todos nuestros roles. Si la flexibilidad es importante para usted, lo alentamos a explorar con nuestro equipo de contratación cuáles son las oportunidades.

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We’re moving towards a more sustainable future with our new headquarters. With better public transport links and proximity to world-class science and technology institutions, we’re excited for our move to the vicinity of Earnshaw Street, London WC1A (“the New HQ”) by end H1 2024.