Senior Director, Procurement

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Wavre, Wallonie, Belgique GSK Temps plein

Site Name:
UK - London - Brentford, Belgium-Wavre

Posted Date:
May


The Senior Director, Head of Procurement - Europe is at the forefront of driving GSK's purpose to
unite science,
technology, and
talent to
get ahead of disease together, hand in hand with leaders across the Commercial business and through strategic relationships with our suppliers.

Our company culture to be
ambitious for patients,
accountable for impact and to
do the right thing is at the core of every decision and action taken in this role.

To get
Ahead Together, the Senior Director must be
ALL IN to:

  • Energetically adopt the focused and ambitious objectives of the Commercial business as your own
  • Confidently employ deep Procurement expertise and excellence, tapping into the farreaching Procurement network for best practices and opportunities
  • Boldly ignite your entrepreneurial spirt to drive towards solutions that are most ambitious for patients
  • Deliver flawlessly to produce significant top and bottomline improvement that allows the business to realize excellent growth
  • Bring existing strategic suppliers along on the journey to deliver our business objectives and scout for new ones when new ideas or solutions are needed
  • Proactively monitor for and mitigate against internal and external risks


The Senior Director will be a key member of the Regional and Local Procurement Leadership team and will lead a dynamic team responsible for the Europe Commercial business, including Global Vaccines.

Having a good understanding of the New GSK culture and leading the team to build this into their ways of working to further unlock value is key.


This exciting role will manage the oversight of ~XM 500M GBP in annual spend via relevant procurement strategies, strategic sourcing and negotiation initiatives in line with the strategies, and leading large-scale, cross business unit projects.

We will look to the Senior Director to partner with the regional and local stakeholder across the various areas of the business, but with primary focus on the Commercial (Sales & Marketing) organization.

Additionally, this individual will need to collaborate with our matrix global category Procurement team colleagues to ensure optimization of our global buying power with local business needs.


Key Responsibilities
This role will provide YOU the opportunity to lead key activities to progress YOUR career.

These responsibilities include some of the following:
Business partnering & stakeholder management

  • Position the Procurement value proposition, on local, regional and global levels
  • Strategically engage with and understand the business requirements of stakeholders and business partners to be able to represent the needs of local stakeholders and market dynamics and to inform procurement strategies that enable the achievement of GSK business objectives
Strategy creation & execution

  • Work with the category teams to create comprehensive global and regional sourcing strategies for spend categories (Marketing, Sales, & Tech; Corporate Categories; and some areas of Facilities and Logistics), operating with a truly global/regional and strategic mindset and in close collaboration
  • Have a clear understanding of how global and regional strategies affect local markets and how global and regional strategies align
  • Develop communication strategies for inRegion and Global Procurement leads and business stakeholders
  • Be the regional and/or global expert in the spend categories within scope of responsibility
Benefit delivery

  • Deliver global and regional benefits identified in strategies through effective strategy execution aligned to assurance of supply (risk management), quality, service, cost and innovation
  • Partner with Finance to ensure visibility to planned spend and impact of value delivery to business budgets
  • Ensure GSK company and Procurement policies, procedures, processes, systems and methodologies are utilized in a compliant manner in the area of responsibility
  • Drive operational efficiencies by ensuring optimization of GSK supply base and souretopay strategies
  • Accountable for supporting relevant M&A activity as necessary, including managing efficient integration as required.
External supplier relationships

  • Build strategic relationships with key suppliers at a senior level and lead processes to ensure value is driven from these relationships. Ensure global and regional considerations are accounted for in supplier relationships. Leverage Supplier Relationship Management processes to drive relationships.
  • Negotiate, create, execute and manage effective global and regional contracts with suppliers (where required) that will allow GSK to maximize opportunity globally. Ensure regional considerations are taken into account in global supplier negotiations and contracts
  • Lead global and regional strategy and supply base reviews.
People leadership

  • Lead, manage and develop teams of profession


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