US Procurement Manager

GSK; North Carolina; On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

GSK is seeking a procurement professional to execute global sourcing strategies and partner with ViiV stakeholders to align sourcing with business needs. You will manage supplier relationships, negotiate favorable contracts, and ensure performance and budgeting alignment across multiple spend categories.

Ideal candidates will have 3+ years in procurement, strong negotiator skills, and experience across commercial, corporate, and technology spend.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of procurement experience in a commercial business environment.
• Experience managing suppliers and performance.
• Ability to drive and deliver cost savings and articulate procurement value.

Responsibilities

• Execute procurement strategies across global spend categories including commercial, corporate and tech.
• Partner with ViiV stakeholders to align sourcing strategies with business needs.
• Manage supplier relationships and negotiate contracts to secure favorable terms.
• Monitor SLAs and vendor performance and ensure alignment with budgeting.
• Build strategic relationships within GSK and across global category teams.

Skills

Business Acumen

Contract Management

Influencing

Education

Bachelor's degree

Job description

Key Responsibilities:

• Strategy execution
• Work closely with the ViiV commercial business to facilitate execution of their commercial strategies through procurement strategy and expertise
• Align with Global category teams and work in collaboration with these teams to provide ViiV business requirements through preferred suppliers
• Execute global sourcing strategies for multiple spend categories (across commercial, corporate and tech) in scope of responsibility, operating with a truly global mindset and ensuring all applicable ViiV needs are accommodated
• Be the local expert in agreed spend categories and ViiV BU's within scope of responsibility
• Benefit delivery
• Ensure financial benefits are managed in accordance with the Savings methodology approach, ensuring business unit and Finance agreement to financial value delivered and transparency on treatment of benefits in the budgeting process
• Negotiate goods and services contracts with suppliers that secure favourable terms for ViiV in line with the agreed business requirements
• Business partnering & stakeholder management in GSK
• Build strategic relationships with ViiV stakeholders, to understand business requirements, identify opportunities to create value and to position Procurement's value proposition. Align sourcing strategies accordingly
• Influence key stakeholders and business partners to support strategy development, endorse recommended strategies, support execution and agree how benefit delivery will be budgeted
• External supplier relationships
• Execute and manage effective contracts with suppliers that will allow ViiV to maximize opportunity globally. Ensure global views on supplier negotiations are taken
• Identification/evaluation of new vendors in line with agreed business requirements, as well as tracking and monitoring of service level agreements and performance standards for existing vendors
• Build skillsets across a variety of procurement tools, systems and process to enable supplier onboarding, contracting, purchase to pay, eSourcing, spend analysis and risk management.
• Supply chain & risk management
• Contribute to the transformation of the supply chain to release value and make ViiV more responsive to business and customer needs - for example in cost control, complexity reduction, simplification, best practice procurement and use of KPIs
• Identify and manage risks in the supply chain. Ensure appropriate mitigation plans are in place and in use and that the risks are communicated appropriately within business units impacted, Procurement and the supply base

Why You?

Basic Qualifications:3+ years of procurement experience including the ability to support multiple spend categories ideally within a commercial business environmentBusiness stakeholder management and influencing, this includes the ability to build strong relationships and to influence without express authorityExperience managing suppliers (including performance management)Able to drive and deliver business impacting cost savingsAbility to articulate the value that procurement can bring to an organizationAbility and track record to manage contract negotiationsCommercial and financial acumenExperience leading supplier tender/RFP processes

Preferred Qualifications/Experience:

Pharmaceutical Industry Experience but open to other industriesQualified to bachelor's degree level or equivalent experienceCategory experience within commercial areasExperience working with Procure-to-Pay and Spend Analysis systemsExperience managing the delivery of sourcing projects in collaboration with cross functional teamsCommitted to delivering high-quality results, overcoming challenges, focusing on what matters , execution.

Skills

Business Acumen, Contract Management, Influ