Site Name: UK - County Durham - Barnard Castle Posted Date: Jan 10 2025 Site Procurement Manager Closing Date for Applications – 24th January (COB) The Global Procurement Site team is responsible for Procurement across all the GSK manufacturing Sites for Pharma, Vaccines and Consumer. The team covers Direct and Indirect spend, and focuses on the creation and execution of Procurement strategies by creating strong relationships with stakeholders at different levels within the Site. Procurement is accountable for establishing and nurturing value-focused relationships with third parties. The Site Procurement Manager (SPM) partners with the local Site team in order to drive and support across all the dimensions of Procurement delivery. At a strategic level, the SPM supports the alignment with the Site Leadership Team; ensures the Site business needs and priorities are well understood and supported from Global Category Procurement teams and contributes, directly or indirectly, to the strategic management of key suppliers. From a more tactical perspective, the SPM supports the local Procurement team in the operational management of activities, implementation of sourcing strategies and other global projects. They also ensure that the daily needs and transactional activities are executed in accordance with GSK’s policies and SOPs and that the communication provided to the local Procurement team and the stakeholder community is relevant and effective. 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 In this role you will: Develop and propose long and short-term plans to improve Procurement processes in order to enhance the overall performance of the Site. Managing interfaces between Procurement and the Site, balancing the expectations of both Procurement and Site stakeholders. Develop and manage the Site supply base to meet GSK’s 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. Manage the development of a long-term vision for all local purchasing categories to support the growth of GSK. Ensure the approval of this long-term vision by local key stakeholders. For specific Categories, actively develops, negotiates and maintains contracts. Secure the supply chain through integrating a risk management approach as a foundation of Procurement mission. Evaluate and mitigate risk associated with long standing local suppliers and single sourcing. Why you? Qualifications & Skills: We are looking for professionals with these required skills to achieve our goals: Bachelor’s degree. Several years of operational Procurement experience across multiple categories of spend and some experience of regulated environments. Good understanding of Procurement tools such as sourcing, quotation analysis, contract negotiation, supplier review, supplier development and others. Good Ability to motivate and inspire colleagues, and work in partnership with others to drive, implement and support change. Good ability to manage sensitive partnerships, strong influencing and stakeholder partnering skills coupled with excellent negotiation and communication skills. Good knowledge of finance (cost benchmark & financial audit with key supplier) and legal matters (contracting) and experience on Risk management. Preferred Qualifications & Skills: If you have the following characteristics, it would be a plus: Experience working in a matrix business environment. Ability to work in high pressure environment, often under tight deadlines. Good acumen of corporate business norms and requirements needed; broad understanding of Procurement activities needed; ability to adapt quickly to new topics and responsibilities. Good understanding of external environment & supplier relationship models. 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. 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. As an Equal Opportunity Employer, we are open to all talent. In the US, we also adhere to Affirmative Action principles. 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