Procurement Partnering Lead

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The Position

A healthier future. It’s what drives us to innovate. To continuously advance science and ensure everyone has access to the healthcare they need today and for generations to come. Creating a world where we all have more time with the people we love. That’s what makes us Roche.

In Roche's Global Procurement organisation we support Roche’s goal of bringing innovative solutions and medicines to patients through business and supplier partnerships. We act as the bridge between Roche's business functions and our suppliers to understand their needs, identify opportunities, and add value far beyond cost savings.

The Opportunity

This role sits within the Customer Excellence group which is focused on enabling greater customer centricity in GP by gathering and sharing business insights and feedback, promoting procurement solutions and services and simplifying partnering with procurement for the business.

As the Procurement Partnering Lead, you will work in a dynamic global environment where you will meet the challenge to bring vision, guidance, prioritization, and focus on customer engagement and satisfaction. Thanks to your deep ambassadorial and partnering skills you will nurture the relationship with key and senior internal Roche business customers to become a strategic partner and advisor, able to influence decision making and/or remove barriers relating to procurement services and solutions.

• Customer domain expert using a deep understanding of business customer strategies and objectives to provide business-related insights and opportunities to the procurement organization to enable and develop effective and desirable procurement offerings targeted at the applicable business area.
• Strategy Developer and value driver of customer-targeted procurement strategies, with accountability for creating and maintaining a holistic, long-term, and targeted plan to support the applicable business customer’s success.
• Procurement ambassador and customer partner, acting as the primary point of contact for specific senior business customers (upper management) in Group Functions. Position focused on representing and leveraging the procurement networks to deliver for and optimize customer experiences and outcomes, including identifying procurement opportunities, promoting solutions, and advocating for customer compliance.

Who you are:

• You hold a university degree, with a business or life science degree preferable. You also have 10+ years with procurement (multi-category) or relevant sales or customer management leadership experience, ideally in a matrix organization as well as strong demonstrated success in building and cultivating collaborative and productive relationships with senior stakeholders.
• Demonstrated experience in the relevant customer core business of People & Culture/Human Resources.
• Demonstrated ability to communicate complex concepts and ideas to others and effectively influence and negotiate with senior-level stakeholders and leadership to make decisions, endorse/use a capability offering; negotiate with senior staff at external partners or vendors (where applicable).
• Sales and/or business development experience is an advantage.
• You strive to act as an enterprise thinker and leverage knowledge and expertise to create solutions for business customers by proactively fostering collaboration, including across the procurement network.
• You are action-oriented and can make decisions and influence others to do the same; you repurpose work and ideas in favor of starting from scratch.
• You have an enterprise mindset to work with colleagues across procurement, business and the wider Roche organization to broaden knowledge and expertise, better understand customer needs, and connect the dots.

Join our team and lead the transformation of procurement through collaboration and strategic business partnering.

Relocation benefits are not available for this posting.

Who we are

At Roche, more than 100,000 people across 100 countries are pushing back the frontiers of healthcare. Working together, we’ve become one of the world’s leading research-focused healthcare groups. Our success is built on innovation, curiosity and diversity.

Roche Pharma Canada has its office in Mississauga, Ontario and employs over 850 employees. The Mississauga facility is bright, vibrant, fosters collaboration and teamwork, and is reflective of Roche's truly innovative culture.

Roche is an Equal Opportunity Employer.