Procurement Director, North America
GSK
Full-time
Remote friendly (Philadelphia, PA)
United States
Corporate Functions
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Role Summary
The Procurement Director, North America is at the forefront of driving GSK’s purpose to unite science, technology, and talent to get ahead of disease together, hand in hand with leaders across the Commercial business and through strategic relationships with our suppliers. Our company culture to be ambitious for patients, accountable for impact and to do the right thing is at the core of every decision and action taken in this position – big or small.
Responsibilities
- Energetically adopt the focused and ambitious objectives of the Commercial business as your own
- Leverage extensive procurement expertise and excellence, utilizing the expansive procurement network to access best practices and opportunities
- Boldly ignite your entrepreneurial spirt to drive towards solutions that are most ambitious for patients
- Deliver flawlessly to produce significant top and bottom-line improvement that allows the business to realize excellent growth
- Partner with strategic suppliers to deliver our business objectives and scout for new Suppliers when innovation and creative solutions are needed
- Proactively monitor for and mitigate against internal and external risks
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree or 10+ years of procurement experience
- 5+ years of leadership experience
- Indirect procurement experience
- Experience across marketing, sales & tech procurement categories, for example: content, media, sales enablement, data & analytics
Education
Skills
- Procurement strategy development
- Sourcing and negotiation
- Cross-functional collaboration
- Digital transformation and AI-driven processes
- Data-driven decision making
Additional Requirements
- 3+ years Pharma industry experience (Preferred)
- Experience delivering large sourcing projects and end-to-end service implementation
- Experience negotiating complex supplier agreements
- Demonstrated success delivering multi-year strategies and building stakeholder relationships
- Budgeting and forecasting, commercial and financial acumen