Director – Medical Communications and Engagement Procurement

Job title:

Director – Medical Communications and Engagement Procurement

Company

GlaxoSmithKline

Job description

We create a place where people can grow, be their best, be safe, and feel welcome, valued and included. We offer a competitive salary, an annual bonus based on company performance, healthcare and wellbeing programmes, pension plan membership, and shares and savings programme.We embrace modern work practises; our Performance with Choice programme offers a hybrid working model, empowering you to find the optimal balance between remote and in-office work.Discover more about our company wide benefits and life at GSK on our webpage:Global Procurement enables the ambitions of GSK by leading procurement initiatives on behalf of GSK business units and operations, enabling the delivery of our vaccine and medicine products through the entire procurement to pay cycle to our Patients. The role will have responsibility for Medical Communications and Engagement Procurement categories, including Publications (approx. spend £150M).Key ResponsibilitiesStrategy creation & execution:

• Create comprehensive sourcing strategies for spend categories in scope of responsibility, operating with a truly global, regional and local and strategic mindset and in close collaboration with other Global or Local Category Leaders to ensure full alignment with global and regional strategies
• Have a clear understanding of how global and regional strategies affect local markets and how global and regional strategies align
• Build an education & communication process to deliver on strategies
• Be the expert in the spend categories

Value Creation / Benefit delivery:

• Deliver benefits identified in category strategies through effective strategy execution, aligned to assurance of supply (risk management), quality, service, cost and innovation
• Maintain a multi-year pipeline of savings programs, risk mitigation, and ESG

Business partnering & stakeholder management in GSK:

• Influence key stakeholders and business partners to support strategy development, endorse recommended strategies, support execution and agree how benefit delivery will be budgeted
• Lead as assigned global procurement strategic programs

External supplier relationships:

• Build strategic relationships with key suppliers at a senior level and lead processes to ensure value is driven from these relationships. Ensure global and local considerations along with cross-category dependencies are accounted for in supplier relationships. Leverage the Supplier Relationship Management process to drive the relationship
• Negotiate, create, execute and manage effective contracts with suppliers (where required) that will allow GSK to maximise opportunity globally. Ensure regional and local considerations are taken into account in global supplier negotiations and contracts

People leadership:

• Lead and direct category team within scope of responsibility
• Develop and implement effective, partnership, ways of working within the category management structure across geographical
• Initiate and lead processes to enable regional and local Procurement representatives to input regional and local business requirements and market dynamic information
• Ensure appropriate communication strategy is in place and in use within the relevant Procurement and business customer networks
• Lead and exemplify the GSK Culture and inspire, care, motivate, develop and retain talents

Closing Date for Applications: 24 March 2024Please take a copy of the Job Description, as this will not be available post closure of the advert.
When applying for this role, please use the ‘cover letter’ of the online application or your CV to describe how you meet the competencies for this role, as outlined in the job requirements above. The information that you have provided in your cover letter and CV will be used to assess your application.Why you?Basic Qualifications:We are looking for professionals with these required skills to achieve our goals:

• Bachelor’s Degree
• Demonstrated Procurement experience ideally in Pharmaceuticals
• Experience in R&D Procurement / Medical and Regulatory Procurement. Marketing Procurement experience is also relevant
• Experience of leading teams
• In depth understanding of external environment, key suppliers/providers, commercial models, upper quartile of performance
• Demonstrated success in leading projects to meet and improve the needs of business
• Experience managing the delivery of large projects and with end-to-end service / operations management
• Strong digital data, tech savvy

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

• Exceptional communication and influencing skills across internal GSK teams and external suppliers globally
• Understanding business value, business priorities, and implementation risks
• Demonstrated ability to display key attributes of successful business partnering including building strong relationships with key individuals

We’re moving towards a more sustainable future with our new headquarters. With better public transport links and proximity to world-class science and technology institutions, we’re excited for our move to the vicinity of Earnshaw Street, London WC1A (“the New HQ”) by end H1 2024.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.As an Equal Opportunity Employer, we are open to all talent. In the US, we also adhere to Affirmative Action principles. This ensures that all qualified applicants will receive equal consideration for employment without regard to neurodiversity, race/ethnicity, colour, national origin, religion, gender, pregnancy, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, age, disability, genetic information, military service, covered/protected veteran status or any other federal, state or local protected class*(*US only).We believe in an agile working culture for all our roles. If flexibility is important to you, we encourage you to explore with our hiring team what the opportunities are.Should you require any adjustments to our process to assist you in demonstrating your strengths and capabilities contact us on or 0808 234 4391.Please note should your enquiry not relate to adjustments, we will not be able to support you through these channels. However, we have created a UK Recruitment FAQ guide. Click the and scroll to the Careers Section where you will find answers to multiple questions we receive .As you apply, we will ask you to share some personal information which is entirely voluntary. We want to have an opportunity to consider a diverse pool of qualified candidates and this information will assist us in meeting that objective and in understanding how well we are doing against our inclusion and diversity ambitions. We would really appreciate it if you could take a few moments to complete it. Rest assured, Hiring Managers do not have access to this information and we will treat your information confidentially.Important notice to Employment businesses/ AgenciesGSK does not accept referrals from employment businesses and/or employment agencies in respect of the vacancies posted on this site. All employment businesses/agencies are required to contact GSK’s commercial and general procurement/human resources department to obtain prior written authorization before referring any candidates to GSK. The obtaining of prior written authorization is a condition precedent to any agreement (verbal or written) between the employment business/ agency and GSK. In the absence of such written authorization being obtained any actions undertaken by the employment business/agency shall be deemed to have been performed without the consent or contractual agreement of GSK. GSK shall therefore not be liable for any fees arising from such actions or any fees arising from any referrals by employment businesses/agencies in respect of the vacancies posted on this site.Please note that if you are a US Licensed Healthcare Professional or Healthcare Professional as defined by the laws of the state issuing your license, GSK may be required to capture and report expenses GSK incurs, on your behalf, in the event you are afforded an interview for employment. This capture of applicable transfers of value is necessary to ensure GSK’s compliance to all federal and state US Transparency requirements. For more information, please visit GSK’s Transparency Reporting site.We’re moving towards a more sustainable future with our new headquarters. With better public transport links and proximity to world-class science and technology institutions, we’re excited for our move to the vicinity of Earnshaw Street, London WC1A (“the New HQ”) by end H1 2024.

Expected salary

Location

Brentford, Greater London – London

Job date

Sat, 16 Mar 2024 23:36:20 GMT

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