Director, Procurement North America

Site Name: Durham Blackwell Street, USA - Pennsylvania - Philadelphia
Posted Date: Jan 21 2025

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.

To get Ahead Together, the Procurement Director must be ALL IN to:

• Energetically adopt the focused and ambitious objectives of the Commercial business as your own
• Confidently leverage extensive procurement expertise and excellence, utilizing the expansive procurement network to access best practices and opportunities. Boldly ignite your entrepreneurial spirit 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

Why GSK?

This role is situated within a dynamic team where you’ll thrive with great care and attention to your individual growth and development and find motivation in seeing your direct impact on our patients.

We will look to you to:

• Partner with one or more of the US Business Units (BU’s) or commercial functions (e.g. Vaccines, Oncology, Specialty, Anti-Infectious & Respiratory, Market Access, Digital, Data & Technology, and Strategy, Insights, Transformation & Operations)
• Build the procurement strategy for the BU(s)
• Lead sourcing and negotiation initiatives that bring value to the organization and align with our strategy
• Partner with our matrix global category Procurement colleagues to ensure optimization of our global buying power with local business needs
• Lead large-scale, cross-BU projects

Why You?

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree or 10 years procurement experience
• 2+ years leading teams
• Experience across marketing, sales & tech procurement categories, for example: content, media, sales enablement, data & analytics

Preferred Qualifications:

• 3+ years Pharma industry experience
• Experience managing the delivery of large sourcing projects and end-to-end service implementation in collaboration with cross functional teams
• Experience negotiating complex supplier agreements
• Demonstrated success delivering a multi-year strategy ensuring competitive commercial advantage
• Demonstrated ability to forge close business relationships with internal and external stakeholders at all management levels
• Agile and distributed decision-making – using data driven decision making and applying judgement to balance pace, rigor and risk.
• Managing individual and team performance.
• Developing people and building a talent pipeline.
• 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.
• Translating strategy into action - a compelling narrative, motivating others, setting objectives and delegation.
• Ability to navigate matrix organization and ability to deliver through others
• Budgeting and forecasting, commercial and financial acumen.