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- Partner with the Global Product & Technology (GP&T) leadership team to understand and influence the tech strategy and gain visibility of how best Procurement can support to deliver their strategic priorities
- Create strategies to deliver targeted commercial benefits and develop new & innovative ways to uncover broader opportunities
- Manage and mentor junior staff to curate the development of GSK's next generation of procurement leaders
- Lead high profile negotiations with large enterprise supplier partners, delivering maximum commercial benefit whilst ensuring business needs are met
- Create, refresh and implement new or existing category strategies for each of the assigned sub-categories
- Manage senior level stakeholders and challenge thinking, strategy or decisions by bringing strong commercial knowledge and market insights to bear
- Drive Procurement level initiatives including; supplier diversity and inclusion, improvements to working capital, sustainability, and guided buying
- Bachelor's degree
- Track record of technology procurement experience
- Excellent experience with strategic sourcing methodologies, best practices, and use of enterprise procure-to-pay platforms
- Demonstrated experience working with global providers of ERP application software, managed technology services
- Master's degree in Business, Technology, Mathematics, or Supply Chain Management
- Strong Risk Management Experience
- Demonstrated negotiation and influencing skills
- Experience managing executive level stakeholders
- Excellent verbal and written communications skills
Global Procurement Director - Brentford, United Kingdom - GlaxoSmithKline
Description
Site Name: UK - London - BrentfordPosted Date: Apr
We're excited to be moving to our vibrant new home on New Oxford Street in central London from the end of June 2024. At GSK HQ, we're building an energising space where we can connect, collaborate and get ahead of disease together. Designed especially for us, it'll be one of the healthiest workplaces in the world, with best-in-class tech and bright, light spaces to help us thrive.
Are you looking for a highly visible procurement leadership role that allows you to shape supplier strategy, directly influence GSK's most critical IT investment considerations, and drive positive outcomes globally & at scale? If so, this Global Procurement Director role could be an ideal opportunity to explore.
As Global Procurement Director, you'll join a group of experienced IT procurement professionals aligned with supporting our Chief Technology Officer and his leadership team to deliver on their strategic imperatives whilst driving significant savings and maximizing value for GSK.
This Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) and Global Support Function (GSF) focused role will provide the opportunity to lead, shape, and execute upon critical sourcing and negotiation strategies supporting technology investments across GSK's Core Technology, Finance, Human Resources, Supply Chain, Procurement and Corporate organizational towers.
This role will provide YOU the opportunity to lead key activities to progress YOUR career, these responsibilities include some of the following...
We are looking for professionals with these required skills to achieve our goals:
If you have the following characteristics, it would be a plus:
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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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