Senior Director - Data, AI & Infrastructure Procurement

Global Procurement supports the ambitions of GSK by leading procurement initiatives on behalf of GSK business units and operations, enabling the delivery of our products through the entire procurement to pay cycle to the end customer - our patients and consumers.

The role will have responsibility for specific categories within Digital & Technology, specifically Data, AI & Infrastructure category and reports into the VP, Digital & Tech Procurement. The role partners with senior stakeholders within the Tech organisation, is part of the Tech Procurement Leadership Team and covers circa £300M in spend.

Additionally, the role:

Builds and delivers Strategic Sourcing strategies that deliver the highest quality service and supply while significantly impacting cost savings across business units or supply network

• Plans, oversees and leads high value, long-term, complex negotiations in areas of spend that significantly impact the success or failure of a GSK business unit
• Understands and business partners the customer group in order to deliver relevant strategic procurement solutions
• Leads, manages and to facilitate delivery of the primary role purpose described above.

The candidate has high cultural awareness required to lead, manage and develop a team of procurement leaders responsible for multiple strategic categories of spend, located globally, to facilitate the delivery of the primary role purpose described above:

• Direct reports, indirect reports, matrix reports
• Developing capability of staff, technical, leadership and behaviours
• Leading improvements in team performance

• →Manage a spend around £300m by creating comprehensive global category strategies, operating with a truly global and strategic mindset
• →Have a clear understanding of how global strategies affect other categories, business units and regions and build the appropriate education & communication process
• →Create compelling business cases for change and obtain approval to execute from GSK Digital & Tech and/or other support functions (Finance, HR) senior management, and to agree how benefit delivery will be budgeted
• →Deliver global benefits identified in strategies through effective strategy execution, aligned to assurance of supply (risk management), compliance, quality, service, cost and innovation
• →Lead complex negotiation with Tech suppliers that will allow GSK to maximise opportunity globally
• →Build strategic relationships with a network of senior Tech global stakeholders, to understand business requirements, identify opportunities to create value and to position Procurement’s value proposition. Align category strategies accordingly.
• →Build strategic relationships with key suppliers at a senior level and lead processes to ensure value is driven from these relationships
• →Lead and direct category teams within scope of responsibility
• →Build the organizational capabilities necessary to implement GSK strategy, now and in the future.

• Bachelor’s degree or master’s degree in supply chain, Business or Finance.
• Experience in procurement.
• Experience developing and delivering multi‑year business strategies to achieve commercial objectives and competitive advantage.
• Experience managing the delivery of multiple large projects using project and change management skills 
• Experience assessing business value, business priorities, implementation risks, and market drivers to inform category strategies and business decision‑making.
• Experience influencing and collaborating with internal and external stakeholders globally, while managing supplier relationships and assessing external market dynamics to support business objectives.
• Experience applying analytical, written, and verbal communication skills in professional environments.
• Experience applying negotiation and conflict resolution techniques.

GSK is a global biopharma company with a purpose to unite science, technology and talent to get ahead of disease together. We aim to positively impact the health of 2.5 billion people by the end of the decade, as a successful, growing company where people can thrive.

We get ahead of disease by preventing and treating it with innovation in specialty medicines and vaccines. We focus on four therapeutic areas: respiratory, immunology and inflammation; oncology; HIV; and infectious diseases – to impact health at scale.

People and patients around the world count on the medicines and vaccines we make, so we’re committed to creating an environment where our people can thrive and focus on what matters most. Our culture of being ambitious for patients, accountable for impact and doing the right thing is the foundation for how, together, we deliver for patients, shareholders and our people.

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