Sr. Director, Procurement - Tech

GlaxoSmithKline; London; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job description

As a General Procurement Director, you will be responsible for leading the Supplier relationship management (at Chief Executive/‘C’ level) and the governance for supplier performance for the business.

This role will provide YOU the opportunity to lead key activities to progress YOUR career, these responsibilities include some of the following:

• Establish Key Performance Indicators (KPIs), to ensure effective control of Travel Spend.
• Work in partnership with Finance - Business Unit Chief Financial Officer’s (CFO’s) to provide reports for traveller behavior (to control spend and manage Demand in line with industry benchmarks).
• Manage America’s Travel Operations & Corporate Card programs including creation of, and adherence to established KPI’s, process optimization, and end-user support in liaison with General Managers and Business CFO’s.
• Drive increased adoption of e-booking and procurement system apps and utilization across the enterprise.
• Manage Travel & Expense relationships and service delivery with finance team and internal stakeholders (e.g. Tech team).
• Liaise with Global Ethics and Compliance to ensure risk management and duty of care (for this high-risk category).

Why you? Basic Qualifications:

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

• Bachelor’s degree
• 5 or more years of global procurement experience
• Strong supplier governance experience
• Experience in risk management for supplier monitoring

Preferred Qualifications:

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

• Master’s degree
• Excellent verbal and written communications skills
• Procurement experience related to Travel Expense categories
• Demonstrated negotiation and influencing skills

Why GSK?

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 organisation where people can thrive.

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 place where people feel inspired, encouraged and challenged to be the best they can be. A place where they can be themselves – feeling welcome, valued, and included. Where they can keep growing and look after their wellbeing. So, if you share our ambition, join us at this exciting moment in our journey to get Ahead Together.

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.