Director - Medical Communications and Engagement Procurement

Site Name: UK - London - Brentford
Posted Date: May
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.

Global Procurement enables the ambitions of GSK by leading procurement initiatives on behalf of GSK business units and operations, enabling the delivery of our vaccine and medicine products through the entire procurement to pay cycle to our Patients. The role will have responsibility for Medical Communications and Engagement Procurement categories, including Publications (approx. spend £150M).

Strategy creation & execution:

• Create comprehensive sourcing strategies for spend categories in scope of responsibility, operating with a truly global, regional and local and strategic mindset and in close collaboration with other Global or Local Category Leaders to ensure full alignment with global and regional strategies
• Have a clear understanding of how global and regional strategies affect local markets and how global and regional strategies align
• Build an education & communication process to deliver on strategies
• Be the expert in the spend categories

Value Creation / Benefit delivery:

• Deliver benefits identified in category strategies through effective strategy execution, aligned to assurance of supply (risk management), quality, service, cost and innovation
• Maintain a multi-year pipeline of savings programs, risk mitigation, and ESG

Business partnering & stakeholder management in GSK:

• Influence key stakeholders and business partners to support strategy development, endorse recommended strategies, support execution and agree how benefit delivery will be budgeted
• Lead as assigned global procurement strategic programs

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 local considerations along with cross-category dependencies are accounted for in supplier relationships. Leverage the Supplier Relationship Management process to drive the relationship
• Negotiate, create, execute and manage effective contracts with suppliers (where required) that will allow GSK to maximise opportunity globally. Ensure regional and local considerations are taken into account in global supplier negotiations and contracts

People leadership:

• Lead and direct category team within scope of responsibility
• Develop and implement effective, partnership, ways of working within the category management structure across geographical
• Initiate and lead processes to enable regional and local Procurement representatives to input regional and local business requirements and market dynamic information
• Ensure appropriate communication strategy is in place and in use within the relevant Procurement and business customer networks
• Lead and exemplify the GSK Culture and inspire, care, motivate, develop and retain talents
  

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

• Bachelor's Degree
• Demonstrated Procurement experience ideally in Pharmaceuticals
• Experience in R&D Procurement / Medical and Regulatory Procurement. Marketing Procurement experience is also relevant
• Experience of leading teams
• In depth understanding of external environment, key suppliers/providers, commercial models, upper quartile of performance
• Demonstrated success in leading projects to meet and improve the needs of business
• Experience managing the delivery of large projects and with end-to-end service / operations management
• Strong digital data, tech savvy

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

• Exceptional communication and influencing skills across internal GSK teams and external suppliers globally
• Understanding business value, business priorities, and implementation risks
• Demonstrated ability to display key attributes of successful business partnering including building strong relationships with key individuals

APPLICATION CLOSING DATE – 31st May 2024

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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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