Procurement Partnering Lead - Pharma Technical Operations (PT)

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The Position

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

The Opportunity

As the Procurement Partnering Lead for PT, you will work in a dynamic global environment where you will meet the challenge to bring vision, guidance, prioritization, and focus on customer engagement and satisfaction. Thanks to your deep ambassadorial and partnering skills you will nurture the relationship with key and senior internal Roche business customers to become a strategic partner and advisor, able to influence decision making and/or remove barriers relating to procurement services and solutions. PT is a large group of 12,000+ colleagues and is where our products are developed, manufactured and distributed. Development, internal / external manufacturing, supply chain and engineering are core functions. A lean methodology is in place and procurement is part of the journey working with PT on every level to improve our ability to supply patients with needed medicines.

Based on your specialized and in-depth knowledge about your business customer’s strategy, priorities and needs, you proactively identify and anticipate customer needs and opportunities (push and pull opportunities) to increase overall procurement value delivery to internal Roche business customers. You will work closely with relevant capabilities of all chapters in procurement, to develop a targeted procurement customer strategy that prioritizes and focuses efforts to drive value back to the customer and achieve overall targets and performance metrics.

As the Procurement Partnering Lead for PT 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 using a deep understanding of business customer strategies and objectives to provide business-related insights and opportunities to the procurement organization to enable and develop effective and desirable procurement offerings targeted at the applicable business area.
• Strategy Developer and value driver of customer-targeted procurement strategies, with accountability for creating and maintaining a holistic, long-term, and targeted plan to support the applicable business customer’s success, including prioritization of business support requirements and proactively proposing and, where feasible, securing buy-in/ sponsorship (at business senior management level) for applicable procurement services and solutions that deliver on the applicable business area’s value objectives like savings and other business area-targeted metrics.
• Procurement ambassador and customer partner, acting as the primary point of contact for specific senior business customers (upper management) focused on representing and leveraging the procurement networks to deliver for and optimize customer experiences and outcomes, including identifying procurement opportunities, promoting solutions, and advocating for customer compliance (i.e., with policies, tools, processes) and adoption (i.e., procurement purchasing (aka myBuy) uptake and improvement).

You will work with your team, broader capability area, networks, and squads/project teams to ensure prioritization and focus on delivering or supporting both project and foundational work. You directly manage and are accountable for the performance of a small team of Procurement Partnering Leads and/or Sr. Procurement Partnering Managers.

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

You hold a university degree, with a business or life science degree preferable. You also have10-12+ years with procurement (multi-category) 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.

In addition, you have:

• Demonstrated experience in the relevant customer core business
• Demonstrated ability to communicate complex concepts and ideas to others and effectively influence and negotiate with senior-level stakeholders and leadership to make decisions, endorse/use a capability offering; negotiate with senior staff at external partners or vendors (where applicable).
• Business level fluency in English
• Sales and/or business development experience is an advantage

Mindset and Behaviors

• You strive to act as an enterprise thinker and leverage knowledge and expertise to create solutions for business customers by proactively fostering collaboration, including across the procurement network.
• You are action-oriented and can make decisions and influence others to do the same; you repurpose work and ideas in favor of starting from scratch.
• You demonstrate curiosity, active listening, and a willingness to experiment and test new ideas when appropriate, focusing on continuous learning and improvement.
• You work with colleagues across procurement, business, and the broader Roche organization to broaden knowledge and expertise, better understand customer needs, and connect the dots.
• You are open-minded and inclusive, generously sharing ideas and knowledge while being receptive to ideas and feedback from others.

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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.

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