Global Category Leader, Travel, Meetings

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Brentford, Greater London, United Kingdom GSK Full time
Nombre del sítio: UK - London - Brentford, USA - Pennsylvania - Philadelphia
Fecha de publicación: Apr 9 2024

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 team-based culture.
  • Supplier

Closing Date for Applications: 23rd April 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


Please take a copy of the Job Description, as this will not be available post closure of the advert. When applying for this role, please use the 'cover letter' of the online application or your CV to describe how you meet the competencies for this role, as outlined in the job requirements above. The information that you have provided in your cover letter and CV will be used to assess your application.

Como empresa impulsada por nuestros valores de enfoque al paciente, transparencia, respeto e integridad, sabemos que la inclusión y la diversidad son esenciales para que podamos tener éxito. Queremos que todos nuestros colegas prosperen en GSK, brindando sus experiencias únicas, asegurándonos de que se sientan bien y que sigan creciendo en sus carreras. Como candidato para un papel, queremos que usted se sienta de la misma manera.

Creemos en una cultura de trabajo ágil para todos nuestros roles. Si la flexibilidad es importante para usted, lo alentamos a explorar con nuestro equipo de contratación cuáles son las oportunidades.

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We're moving towards a more sustainable future with our new headquarters. With better public transport links and proximity to world-class science and technology institutions, we're excited for our move to the vicinity of Earnshaw Street, London WC1A ("the New HQ") by end H1 2024.

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