Senior Procurement Manager - Corporate Services

Roche; Mississauga; On-site; CAD 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Roche is seeking a Senior Procurement Manager in Corporate Services to enhance procurement strategies and improve health outcomes. This role plays a pivotal part in managing supplier partnerships, driving category strategies, and ensuring efficient procurement operations. The ideal candidate will possess strong analytical and leadership skills with extensive procurement experience.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of procurement experience in strategic sourcing and global category management.
• Deep specific knowledge in Corporate Services commodity area.
• Fluent in English to a business level.

Responsibilities

• Conduct market and internal analysis to develop sourcing strategies.
• Execute sourcing strategies and major initiatives.
• Collaborate with internal stakeholders to align sourcing and spend management.

Skills

Analytical thinking

Project management

Leadership

Negociation

Education

University degree in business or related discipline

Job description

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At Roche you can show up as yourself, embraced for the unique qualities you bring. Our culture encourages personal expression, open dialogue, and genuine connections, where you are valued, accepted and respected for who you are, allowing you to thrive both personally and professionally. This is how we aim to prevent, stop and cure diseases and ensure everyone has access to healthcare today and for generations to come. Join Roche, where every voice matters.

The Position

Senior Procurement Manager - Corporate Services

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.

Healthcare is evolving, and Global Procurement is responding by continuously striving for the highest possible performance, taking innovative and strategic approaches to business and supplier partnerships. Global Procurement proactively manages the entire supplier ecosystem, making a vital contribution to improving health outcomes, reducing costs for patients and global healthcare systems, and ensuring that Roche continues doing now what patients need next.

The Opportunity:

This role sits within the Indirect Procurement Delivery group, which covers the core procurement activities from category management, strategic and operational sourcing, supplier management, contracting, content strategy definition, and execution. The Indirect Procurement Delivery group comprises many communities grouping categories of the same value chain or having commonality, including Research & Development, Commercial and Corporate Services, Digital & Technology, and Facilities. The communities are key enablers of strong category expertise while allowing flexibility in the procurement delivery response to the evolving needs of our customers.

As a Senior Procurement Manager in Corporate Services, you will bring analytical thinking, planning, execution, and focus to the procurement sourcing and delivery capability area. Using your specialized knowledge and in-depth expertise in a specific category or spend areas and procurement overall, you will proactively identify and drive strategies and approaches for managing and sourcing third party spend requirements. You can also play the role of Category strategy owner in charge of driving, coordinating and signing the category strategy.

You will collaborate with internal procurement (such as Customer Excellence, Insights, Analytics, Contracting, etc.) and business stakeholders to build and implement comprehensive category sourcing and spend management strategies that are aligned to business needs and functional objectives.

You will work closely with other team members, as a peer coach, project, or workstream lead to identify opportunities to aggregate customer demand, drive buying channel automation, deliver on day-to day activities, and provide capacity, expertise, and oversight to productivity and other customer oriented projects/solutions.

As a Senior Procurement Manager in Corporate Services, you will play a variety of roles according to your experience, knowledge, and general business requirements, including but not limited to:

• You are a Category and sourcing subject matter expert in Corporate Services conducting market and internal analysis to develop strategies, best practices, and guidance on tactical plans for how Roche should source and negotiate for third party goods and services in order to satisfy stakeholder requirements and maximize the value for Roche
• You are a Procurement delivery practitioner delivering and executing sourcing strategies and major initiatives by leveraging spend, category know-how, robust sourcing, negotiation, contracting, supplier management methodologies and project management skills, and/or supporting team members by coaching them and enhancing their skills and knowledge
• You develop content and automation, translating sourcing strategy into content and automated buying channels guidelines, best practices and communication materials that improve business adoption, satisfaction, and overall efficiency.
  
  

Who you are:

• You hold a university degree, preferably in business or a related discipline
• You have 7+ years of procurement experience in strategic sourcing, global category management, complex procurement contracting, and operational category efficiency projects
• You have solid leadership experience, extensive procurement experience and deep specific category knowledge in one or more categories
• You have strong experience in procurement systems and processes
• You possess deep knowledge and experience in the Corporate Services commodity area and knowledge of adjacent commodities
• You demonstrate curiosity, active listening and a willingness to experiment and test new ideas when appropriate, with the focus very much on continuous learning and improvement
• You are open-minded and inclusive, generously sharing ideas and knowledge, while being receptive to ideas and feedback from others
• You have skills in project management
• You are fluent in English to a Business level
  
  

Join our team and enable the strong capability expertise needed to meet the evolving needs of our customers.

Note: Relocation benefits are not available for this posting.

Who we are

A healthier future drives us to innovate. Together, more than 100’000 employees across the globe are dedicated to advance science, ensuring everyone has access to healthcare today and for generations to come. Our efforts result in more than 26 million people treated with our medicines and over 30 billion tests conducted using our Diagnostics products. We empower each other to explore new possibilities, foster creativity, and keep our ambitions high, so we can deliver life-changing healthcare solutions that make a global impact.

Let’s build a healthier future, together.

Roche is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Associate

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Purchasing

• Industries

  Pharmaceutical Manufacturing, Biotechnology Research, and Medical Equipment Manufacturing

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