Job Description

Senior Site Procurement Manager

Location: Montrose, Scotland

Job Purpose

Are you energized by a procurement leadership role where you can drive efficiency and shape procurement objectives across the organization? If so, this Senior Procurement Manager role could be an exciting opportunity to explore.

As Senior Procurement Manager, you will be responsible for driving and leading the performance management of all key initiatives and projects, across multiple categories of spend and cross functionally across the wider GSK business, to ensure the delivery of key business objectives and benefits.

This role will provide you the opportunity to lead key activities to progress your career, these responsibilities include the following.

Key Responsibilities

Business strategy:

Develop and propose long and short-term plans to improve Procurement processes to enhance the overall performance of the Sites

Manage the interfaces between Procurement and the Sites, balancing the expectations of both Procurement and Site stakeholders.

Ensure that Site requirements are considered within the definition and implementation of Global Category strategies

Develop and implement Procurement strategies for local categories of spend that clearly meet business requirements

Procurement Management:

Lead the Procurement function across the Montrose, Ulverston and Barnard Castle sites (Directs and Indirects)

Develop and manage the Sites supply base to meet GSK\xe2\x80\x99s requirements: assurance of supply, quality, regulatory, service, cost, and innovation to control costs in a fast-moving environment. Adapt and respond to regularly changing business requirements.

For specific Categories, actively negotiate contracts.

Reduce the Directs, Manufacturing & Indirects costs across the Sites. Support the reduction of end-to-end total costs of the site.

Co-ordinate support from multiple Category teams and work within a matrix organisation.

Team:

You will manage a team of 2 Procurement professionals covering 3 manufacturing locations with one of these team members supporting a portfolio of spend across the global GSK Pharma site network.

Responsible to select, train, supervise, develop and evaluate local buyers. Lead and motivate team members towards the pursuit of operational excellence and attainment of best practices. In addition, promote empowerment and process ownership.

Why You?

Basic Qualifications

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

Bachelor\xe2\x80\x99s degree, preferably science or business based

Solid experience in operational Procurement / Supply Chain across multiple categories of spend (ideally with some experience of regulated environments)

Direct experience leading procurement for a specific supply category, or more generically across site level spend (Direct or Indirect)

Ability to drive & implement change

Enterprise mindset \xe2\x80\x93 translating & mapping Procurement goals to business needs

Demonstrated team leadership and ability to motivate and inspire colleagues, and work in partnership with others to drive, implement and support change

Preferred Qualifications

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

MBA

Experience in sourcing Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients (API\xe2\x80\x99s)

Exceptional communication and influencing skills across internal GSK teams and external suppliers globally.

Ability to operate and influence across all business units and across multiple disciplines

CI Mindset \xe2\x80\x93 operational excellence trained

Why GSK?

GSK is a global biopharma company with a special purpose \xe2\x80\x93 to unite science, technology and talent to get ahead of disease together \xe2\x80\x93 so we can positively impact the health of billions of people and deliver stronger, more sustainable shareholder returns \xe2\x80\x93 as an organisation where people can thrive.

Getting ahead means preventing disease as well as treating it, and we aim to impact the health of 2.5 billion people around the world in the next 10 years. Our R&D focus is to deliver a new generation of vaccines and medicines using the science of the immune system, human genetics and advanced technologies to get ahead of infectious diseases, HIV, cancer and other immune-mediated and respiratory diseases. We do all this with a commitment to operate responsibly for all our stakeholders by prioritising Innovation, Performance and Trust.

Our bold ambitions for patients are reflected in new commitments to growth and a significant step-change in delivery over the next five years. This means more GSK vaccines and medicines, including innovative new products, will reach more people who need them than ever before.

We have long believed that building trust is key to stronger performance, helping to create value for shareholders, impact for patients and society and a reason outstanding people choose to work for and with us. That\xe2\x80\x99s why being a responsible business is an integral part of our strategy. Taking action on environmental, social and governance issues is a key driver in our strategy.

Our success absolutely depends on our people. While getting ahead of disease together is about our ambition for patients and shareholders, it\xe2\x80\x99s 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 \xe2\x80\x93 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

Closing Date for Applications: 15/01/2024 (COB)

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Why Us?

GSK is a global biopharma company with a special purpose \xe2\x80\x93 to unite science, technology and talent to get ahead of disease together \xe2\x80\x93 so we can positively impact the health of billions of people and deliver stronger, more sustainable shareholder returns \xe2\x80\x93 as an organization where people can thrive. Getting ahead means preventing disease as well as treating it, and we aim to positively impact the health of 2.5 billion people by the end of 2030.

Our success absolutely depends on our people. While getting ahead of disease together is about our ambition for patients and shareholders, it\xe2\x80\x99s also about making GSK a place where people can thrive. We want GSK to be a workplace where everyone can feel a sense of belonging and thrive as set out in our Equal and Inclusive Treatment of Employees policy. We\xe2\x80\x99re committed to being more proactive at all levels so that our workforce reflects the communities we work and hire in, and our GSK leadership reflects our GSK workforce.

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