Senior Manager, Clinical FSP - RD Procurement

Company: GlaxoSmithKline
Location: Waltham
Posted on: September 12, 2020

Job Description:

Senior Manager, Clinical FSP - RD Procurement Waltham, Massachusetts

Procurement

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Job description Site Name: USA - Massachusetts - Waltham

Posted Date: Aug 12 2020

Are you energized by a procurement leadership role where you can drive efficiency and shape procurement objectives across the organization? If so, this Senior Manager, R&D Procurement role could be an exciting opportunity to explore.

The Senior Manager, R&D Procurement, Category will be accountable for sourcing and contract management across their assigned category(ies). This will include the development and implementation of category strategies; the contracting for master/service/product agreements within the categories; the management of supplier relationships that fall outside of the enterprise SRM structure for these categories; and for ensuring the suppliers key to their category(ies) commit to deliver GSK’s performance/quality/financial requirements.

Category groupings determined based on total spend, category complexity, stakeholder alignment and/or scientific depth.

Manage a global spend of ~£10-100million by creating comprehensive global sourcing, contracting, and supplier relationship management strategies for the relevant category(ies).

Accountable for delivering against performance goals (e.g. savings, cash flow, management monitoring, supplier diversity).

Demonstrate in-depth knowledge of their category(ies), their relevant industries/markets, and GSK’s forward-looking capability requirements and use this knowledge to engage with stakeholders to help shape, assess, and source GSK’s R&D requirements.

Role model and consistently demonstrate GSK values and behaviors, foster the environment of a modern employer and promote GSK network/brand.

Impact cultural change and contribute to an organisation focused on decision-making accountability, quality, speed, performance, results, and collaboration.

Ensure Master and service-level agreements are strategically aligned with R&D Business goals by engaging all relevant stakeholders in the sourcing strategy and contract management activities and delivering a strategy for most efficient contracting and buy-channel.

Support merger and acquisition related activities, from a contracting and savings perspective.

For select suppliers, establish and manage SRM structure aligned with broader R&D Procurement SRM structure.

Build strategic relationships and ensure the appropriate communication strategy is in place with GSK stakeholders; understand business requirements, identify opportunities to create value, position Procurement’s value proposition, and align sourcing strategies to assurance of supply (risk management), compliance, quality, service, cost and innovation.

Support the creation of compelling business cases for change and obtain approval to execute from GSK R&D and/or other support functions (Finance, HR, etc.) senior management; agree how benefits will be achieved and accounted for.

Build strategic relationships with key suppliers to ensure the value of the supplier-GSK relationship is optimized; account for cross-GSK requirements in supplier relationships and leverage business review meeting process to drive the relationship.

Why you? Basic Qualifications: We are looking for professionals with these required skills to achieve our goals:

Bachelor’s degree

Experience in Contracts and Negotiation

Experience in Procurement with a focus in either R&D and/or Clinical

Project Management Experience

Experience in Risk Management

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

MBA/Masters Degree

team building and networking skills

leadership skills

communication and engagement skills

partnership skills

influencing skills to drive strategy development and delivery

change management skills

experience with assigned R&D categories

experience in leading teams in matrixed environment

English proficiency (written and oral)

Why GSK? Our values and expectations are at the heart of everything we do and form an important part of our culture.

These include Patient focus, Transparency, Respect, Integrity along with Courage, Accountability, Development, and Teamwork. As GSK focuses on our values and expectations and a culture of innovation, performance, and trust, the successful candidate will demonstrate the following capabilities:

Agile and distributed decision-making – using evidence and applying judgement to balance pace, rigour and risk.

Managing individual and team performance.

Committed to delivering high quality results, overcoming challenges, focusing on what matters, execution.

Implementing change initiatives and leading change.

Sustaining energy and well-being, building resilience in teams.

Continuously looking for opportunities to learn, build skills and share learning both internally and externally.

Developing people and building a talent pipeline.

Translating strategy into action - a compelling narrative, motivating others, setting objectives and delegation.

Building strong relationships and collaboration, managing trusted stakeholder relationships internally and externally.

Budgeting and forecasting, commercial and financial acumen.

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Annual bonus based on company performance

Long term incentives and pension plan

Learning and career development

Access to healthcare & wellbeing programmes

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