Director, Procurement North America

The Procurement Director, North America is at the forefront of driving GSK’s purpose to unite science, technology, and talent to get ahead of disease together, hand in hand with leaders across the Commercial business and through strategic relationships with our suppliers. Our company culture to be ambitious for patients, accountable for impact and to do the right thing is at the core of every decision and action taken in this position – big or small.

To get Ahead Together, the Procurement Director must be ALL IN to:

• Energetically adopt the focused and ambitious objectives of the Commercial business as your own
• Confidently leverage extensive procurement expertise and excellence, utilizing the expansive procurement network to access best practices and opportunities. Boldly ignite your entrepreneurial spirt to drive towards solutions that are most ambitious for patients
• Deliver flawlessly to produce significant top and bottom-line improvement that allows the business to realize excellent growth
• Partner with strategic suppliers to deliver our business objectives and scout for new Suppliers when innovation and creative solutions are needed
• Proactively monitor for and mitigate against internal and external risks

Why GSK?

This role is situated within a dynamic team where you’ll thrive with great care and attention to your individual growth and development and find motivation in seeing your direct impact on our patients.

We will look to you to:

• Partner with one or more of the US Business Units (BU’s) or commercial functions (e.g. Vaccines, Oncology, Specialty, Anti-Infectious & Respiratory, Market Access, Digital, Data & Technology, and Strategy, Insights, Transformation & Operations)
• Build the procurement strategy for the BU(s)
• Lead sourcing and negotiation initiatives that bring value to the organization and align with our strategy
• Partner with our matrix global category Procurement colleagues to ensure optimization of our global buying power with local business needs
• Lead large-scale, cross-BU projects

Why You?

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree or 10 years procurement experience
• 2+ years leading teams
• Experience across marketing, sales & tech procurement categories, for example: content, media, sales enablement, data & analytics

Preferred Qualifications:

• 3+ years Pharma industry experience
• Experience managing the delivery of large sourcing projects and end-to-end service implementation in collaboration with cross functional teams
• Experience negotiating complex supplier agreements
• Demonstrated success delivering a multi-year strategy ensuring competitive commercial advantage
• Demonstrated ability to forge close business relationships with internal and external stakeholders at all management levels
• Agile and distributed decision-making – using data driven decision making and applying judgement to balance pace, rigor and risk.
• Managing individual and team performance.
• Developing people and building a talent pipeline.
• Committed to delivering high quality results, overcoming challenges, focusing on what matters, execution.
• Implementing change initiatives and leading change.
• Sustaining energy and well-being, building resilience in teams.
• Continuously looking for opportunities to learn, build skills and share learning both internally and externally.
• Translating strategy into action - a compelling narrative, motivating others, setting objectives and delegation.
• Ability to navigate matrix organization and ability to deliver through others
• Budgeting and forecasting, commercial and financial acumen.

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Please visit  GSK US Benefits Summary to learn more about the comprehensive benefits program GSK offers US employees.

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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