Reference #: 380180Site Name: Philadelphia Walnut Street, Durham Blackwell Street, GSK House, Upper ProvidencePosted Date: Jan 17 2024

　　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 globally & at scale?  If so, this Director, Procurement - Core Tech and GP&T role could be an ideal opportunity to explore.

　　As a Director, Procurement - Core Tech and GP&T, 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, Enterprise Architecture, Compute, Storage, Managed Technology Services & 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.

　　Manage and mentor junior staff to curate the development of GSK's next generation of procurement leaders.

　　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, sustainability, and guided buying.

　　Why you?

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

　　Bachelor's degree in Business, Technology, Mathematics, or Supply Chain Management

　　7+ years of technology procurement experience

　　7+ 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

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　　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 opport nities 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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　　Why Us?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 organization where people can thrive. Getting ahead means preventing disease as well as treating it, and we aim to positively impact the health of 2.5 billion people by the end of 2030.

　　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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