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Global Category Leader, Travel, Meetings

1 month ago

Brentford, Greater London, United Kingdom GSK Full time

Site Name:
UK - London - Brentford, USA - Pennsylvania - Philadelphia

Posted Date:
Mar

Global Category Leader, Travel, Meetings & Cards:
Location: UK, Central London / USA, Philadelphia


To build a long-term strategy for the category, influence behavioural change across all business units and all levels of the entire GSK organisation and drive more value from the supplier relationships that we have across the category.


Key Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

  • Create and execute comprehensive global sourcing strategies for travel and meetings with clear and detailed 3-year execution plans to deliver value to GSK
  • Manage Sourcing Strategy to ensure structured competitive bidding events with travel & expenses suppliers including spot buys, RFQs, reverse auctions and RFPs
  • Negotiate, create, execute and manage effective contracts with suppliers (where required) that will allow GSK to manage risk and maximize opportunity globally.
  • Work closely with Travel and Meetings Operations Team to ensure seamless execution of sourcing strategies
  • Work with large and complex data sets to draw actionable insights to drive financial business benefits as well as making travel easier at GSK
  • Influence key stakeholders and business partners to support strategy development, endorse recommended strategies, support execution and agree how benefit delivery will be budgeted
  • Create budgets and performance manage the delivery of the strategic initiatives
  • Build strategic relationships with key suppliers and lead delivery of improvement plans to ensure value is driven from these relationships.
  • Responsible for the savings for the T, E and Meetings sign off and tracking
  • Lead and deliver category plans working closely with operations teams

Why you?:

Basic Qualifications:

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

  • Bachelor's degree
  • Must be substantially experienced in global sourcing for air, hotel, card and meetings. Knowledge of Ariba would be required.
  • Previous experience of leading a team is a must.
  • Extensive supplier management is a must.

Preferred Qualifications:

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

  • Maintain a high level of integrity while balancing multiple priorities and responsibilities.
  • Attention to detail.
  • Ability to communicate both verbally and in writing with all levels both insider and outsider of organization.
  • Demonstrate a serious commitment to accuracy and quality while meeting goals or deadlines.
  • Sense of urgency, flexibility, and accountability.
  • Must be a committed team player prepared to work in and embrace a teambased culture.
  • Supplier

_ Closing Date for Applications: 29th March 2024 (COB)_
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

Why Us?


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 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's 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're 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.

As an Equal Opportunity Employer, we are open to all talent. In the US, we also adhere to Affirmative Action principles.

This ensures that all qualified applicants will receive equal consideration for employment without regard to neurodiversity, race/ethnicity, colour, national origin, religion, gender, pregnancy, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, age, disability, genetic information, military service, covered/protected veteran status or any other federal, state or local protected class*(*US only).

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