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Sr. Procurement Partnering Manager, Diagnostics

A healthier future. It’s what drives us to innovate. To continuously advance science and ensure everyone has access to the healthcare they need today and for generations to come. Creating a world where we all have more time with the people we love.  That’s what makes us Roche. 

The Opportunity

Roche has defined an exciting 10-year ambition plan, requiring us to adapt and transform to our evolving ecosystem and challenges ahead of us. To ensure we can succeed in this new environment and deliver on our mission for patients, Global Procurement (GP) is transforming to build new capabilities and create an agile organization that will deliver on our vision to “accelerate Roche’s goal to bring innovative solutions to patients quickly and efficiently through business and supplier partnerships”.

Customer Excellence is a new team within GP, focused on enabling greater customer centricity in GP by gathering and sharing business insights and feedback, promoting procurement solutions and services and simplifying partnering with procurement for the business.

As the Sr. Procurement Partnering Manager, you will work in a dynamic global environment where you will meet the challenge to bring focus on day-to-day customer engagement to enable an excellent, end-to-end customer experience. You will act as the primary contact for your respective business customer and provide simple and seamless access for the applicable business customer to procurement, independent of the spend category. Collaborate with customers, internal procurement (i.e. Chapters and capability areas such as core delivery, contracting, solutions, analytics, insights, etc.) and transactional/operations teams to align on needs and opportunity fulfilment or general service enhancements that improve the overall customer experience and realize value for the customer. Work closely with other team members as a business area customer subject matter expert, project or workstream lead to develop strategies, measure and track performance, while also identifying and leveraging synergies across Roche. 

Responsibilities:

As the Senior Procurement Partnering Manager, you will play a variety of roles according to your experience, knowledge, and the general business/team requirements, including but not limited to: 

Customer domain expert providing business insights and opportunities from daily customer engagement to the procurement organization, including the tactical/operations teams, to (i) maintain and/or improve the end-to-end procurement experience for the applicable customer and (ii) proactively identify and develop opportunities where procurement can drive greater value realization for the business customer.

Strategy Developer and value driver developing and driving operational and tactical business plans, including prioritization, customer buy-in for/sponsorship of applicable procurement services and solutions tailored to customer needs and aligned to overall customer and procurement strategies.

Procurement ambassador and customer partner, acting as the primary point of contact for specific customers focused on simplifying and optimizing the customer experience across procurement, including identifying procurement opportunities, promoting solutions, and advocating for customer compliance (i.e., with policies, tools, processes) and adoption (i.e., myBuy uptake and improvement).

You will work with your team, broader capability area, networks, and squads/project teams to determine the various roles you can take to deliver or support both project and foundational work.

Your successful performance and contribution depend on the full embodiment and demonstration of core mindsets and behaviors, including curiosity, passion, an entrepreneurial spirit, enterprise thinking, inclusive collaboration, and desire for continuous learning that underpin our culture and ways of working.

Who You Are

Bachelor degree required (Business or Life Science discipline preferred); Master is a plus.

A minimum of 7+ years of experience with procurement or relevant sales or customer management leadership experience, ideally in a matrix organization as well as strong demonstrated success in building and cultivating collaborative and productive relationships with senior stakeholders. 

Demonstrated experience in the relevant customer core business.

Enterprise thinker able to leverage knowledge and expertise to create solutions for business customers by proactively fostering collaboration, including across the procurement network.

Action oriented and able to influence others to do the same.

Demonstrates curiosity, active listening and a willingness to experiment and test new ideas when appropriate, with the focus very much on continuous learning and improvement.

Able to work effectively with colleagues across procurement, business and the wider Roche organization to broaden knowledge and expertise, better understand customer needs, and connect the dots.

The expected salary range for this position based on the primary location of IN state is $94,600 – 175,800.  Actual pay will be determined based on experience, qualifications, geographic location, and other job-related factors permitted by law.  A discretionary annual bonus may be available based on individual and Company performance.  This position also qualifies for the benefits detailed at the link provided below.

Benefits

Relocation benefits are not available for this job posting.

At Roche, more than 100,000 people across 100 countries are pushing back the frontiers of healthcare. Working together, we’ve become one of the world’s leading research-focused healthcare groups. Our success is built on innovation, curiosity and diversity.

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