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Procurement Director
GSK
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Office
Location: Philadelphia • Pennsylvania • 🇺🇸 United States
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Lead
About the role
- Energetically adopt the focused and ambitious objectives of the Commercial business as your own
- Leverage extensive procurement expertise and excellence, utilizing the expansive procurement network to access best practices and opportunities
- Boldly ignite your entrepreneurial spirit to drive towards solutions that are most ambitious for patients
- Deliver flawlessly to produce significant top and bottom-line improvement that allows the business to realize excellent growth
- Partner with strategic suppliers to deliver our business objectives and scout for new Suppliers when innovation and creative solutions are needed
- Proactively monitor for and mitigate against internal and external risks
- Partner with one or more of the US Business Units (BU’s) or commercial functions (e.g. Vaccines, Oncology, Specialty, Anti-Infectious & Respiratory, Market Access, Digital, Data & Technology, and Strategy, Insights, Transformation & Operations)
- Build the procurement strategy for the BU(s)
- Lead sourcing and negotiation initiatives that bring value to the organization and align with our strategy
- Partner with our matrix global category Procurement colleagues to ensure optimization of our global buying power with local business needs
- Lead large-scale, cross-BU projects
- Support the business in the planning and preparation for the launch of new assets, ensuring that procurement strategies align with the dynamic needs of commercialization and market entry
- Support the Digital Transformation journey by promoting AI-driven systems, tools, and processes to boost procurement efficiency, streamline workflows, and drive innovation with actionable insights
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree or 10+ years of procurement experience
- 5+ years of leadership experience
- Indirect procurement experience
- Experience across marketing, sales & tech procurement categories, for example: content, media, sales enablement, data & analytics
- 3+ years Pharma industry experience (Preferred)
- Experience managing the delivery of large sourcing projects and end-to-end service implementation in collaboration with cross functional teams (Preferred)
- Experience negotiating complex supplier agreements (Preferred)
- Demonstrated success delivering a multi-year strategy ensuring competitive commercial advantage (Preferred)
- Demonstrated ability to forge close business relationships with internal and external stakeholders at all management levels (Preferred)
- Agile and distributed decision-making – using data driven decision making and applying judgement to balance pace, rigor and risk (Preferred)
- Managing individual and team performance (Preferred)
- Developing people and building a talent pipeline (Preferred)
- Budgeting and forecasting, commercial and financial acumen (Preferred)
Benefits
- GSK US Benefits Summary
- to learn more about the comprehensive benefits program GSK offers US employees.
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard skills
procurementsourcingnegotiationbudgetingforecastingdata analysisproject managementcommercial strategysupplier managementend-to-end service implementation
Soft skills
leadershiprelationship buildingdecision makingteam performance managementtalent developmententrepreneurial spiritrisk mitigationcommunicationcollaborationstrategic thinking