Site Name: USA - North Carolina - Durham, GSK House, USA - Pennsylvania - Upper Providence
Posted Date: Feb 2 2023

Are you looking for a highly visible procurement leadership role that allows you to shape supplier strategy, directly influence GSK’s most critical IT investment considerations, and drive positive outcomes? If so, this Senior Procurement Manager, GP&T - Core Technology role could be an ideal opportunity to explore.

As a Senior Procurement Manager, GP&T - Core Technology, you’ll join a group of experienced IT procurement professionals aligned with supporting our Chief Technology Officer, Chief Information Security Officer, and their respective leadership teams to deliver on their strategic imperatives whilst driving significant savings and maximizing value for GSK.

The Core Technology area provides exposure to lead several sub-categories including: Global Networks, Data & Analytics, Compute Storage, & Enterprise Cloud Solutions (SaaS and application hosting).

This role will provide YOU the opportunity to lead key activities to progress YOUR career, these responsibilities include some of the following…

• Partner with the Global Product & Technology (GP&T) leadership team to understand and influence the tech strategy and gain visibility of how best Procurement can support to deliver their strategic priorities

• Create strategies to deliver targeted commercial benefits and develop new & innovative ways to uncover broader opportunities

• Lead high profile negotiations with large enterprise supplier partners, delivering maximum commercial benefit whilst ensuring business needs are met

• Create, refresh and implement new or existing category strategies for each of the assigned sub-categories

• Manage senior level stakeholders and challenge thinking, strategy or decisions by bringing strong commercial knowledge and market insights to bear

• Drive Procurement level initiatives including; supplier diversity and inclusion, improvements to working capital and guided buying

Why you?

Basic Qualifications:

We are looking for professionals with these required skills to achieve our goals:

• Bachelor’s degree
• 7+ years of technology procurement experience
• 3+ years experience with strategic sourcing methodologies, best practices, and use of enterprise procure-to-pay platforms
• 3+ years experience working with global providers of network, compute, and storage hardware, software, and associated IT services

Preferred Qualifications:

If you have the following characteristics, it would be a plus:

• Master’s degree in Business, Technology, Mathematics, or Supply Chain Management
• Global Procurement experience
• Strong Risk Management Experience
• Demonstrated negotiation and influencing skills
• Experience managing executive level stakeholders
• Excellent verbal and written communications skills

Why GSK?

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. Getting ahead means preventing disease as well as treating it, and we aim to impact the health of 2.5 billion people around the world in the next 10 years.

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.

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. Getting ahead means preventing disease as well as treating it, and we aim to impact the health of 2.5 billion people around the world in the next 10 years.

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 workplace where everyone can feel a sense of belonging and thrive as set out in our Equal and Inclusive Treatment of Employees policy. We’re committed to being more proactive at all levels so that our workforce reflects the communities we work and hire in, and our GSK leadership reflects our GSK workforce.

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