Sr. Director, Global Procurement, IT Technology

GSK remains committed to achieving bold commercial ambitions for the future. By 2031, we aim to deliver £40 billion in annual sales, leveraging our existing strong performance momentum to significantly increase our positive impact on the health of billions of patients globally. Our Ahead Together strategy is centred on early intervention to prevent and alter the course of disease, thereby protecting people and supporting healthcare systems. Our diverse portfolio consists of vaccines, specialty medicines, and general medicines.

Through continuous innovation and a dedicated focus on scientific and technical excellence, we strive to develop and launch new, groundbreaking treatments that address critical health challenges.

About the Role:

Join GSK as the Sr. Director, Global Procurement Technology, where you will strategically partner with our Technology & Digital organisation. Your primary areas of focus will include enterprise software, infrastructure, and end-user services, amongst other subcategories. With substantial third-party spend [$1B] and critical supplier relationships under your purview, you'll drive procurement strategies that are integral to achieving GSK’s most crucial performance objectives. Your role will be pivotal in delivering significant annual savings, forging robust supplier partnerships, and mitigating risks to safeguard GSK’s interests.

Key Responsibilities:

• Business Partnering: Develop closely aligned partnerships with multiple business areas and BU’s, with primary focus on the Digital & Technology organization. Build deep understanding of the business within yourself and your team. Bring an outcomes-oriented approach, developing procurement strategies that enable the critical commercial priorities. Deliver strategies that enable effective resource management, optimizing third party spend (and total costs) to achieve the outcomes most important to the business – and our ambition for patients. Put simply: you’ll play a key role in bringing innovative medicines and vaccines to patients globally via technology solutions.

• Supplier Engagement & Management: Utilise Supplier Relationship Management and performance management processes to drive priority business outcomes and foster innovative solutions. Cultivate strategic relationships with Tech’s strategic partners and key suppliers at senior levels to ensure strong partnerships, delivery, and value creation.

• Thought Leadership: Build external relationships and knowledge sources for insights and idea generation, ensuring up-to-date market knowledge is leveraged in our strategies.

• Category Strategies: Tie together business needs, external insights, and marketplace knowledge to craft mid- to long-term category strategies that align with GSK’s business goals including ESG strategies, partnering with stakeholders and peers across local, regional, and global levels.

• Contracts & Compliance Management: Leverage strong commercial and legal acumen to negotiate, execute, and manage impactful global and regional contracts to maximize GSK’s opportunities while minimizing risk. Ensure compliance with company policies, procedures, and ethical standards in all procurement activities.

• People Leadership: Lead and develop a diverse and high-performance procurement team, fostering a culture of excellence and continuous improvement.

• Digitally-Enabled: Be an early-adopter and role model of new technologies within our function and in GSK. Engage closely in the development of new technologies and processes/workflows that bring new value to GSK. Identify and execute buying channel best practices whilst embracing process orchestration with embedded AI for create efficient and effective end-user experiences while optimizing our spend and supply base and seamlessly managing third party risks. We are rapidly changing and innovating how we digitally enable our processes and you’ll be a key part of this evolution.

Why You!

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree.

• Significant expereince in technology procurement or relevant business experience within a leadership role.

• People management experience, leading both direct and matrix teams.

• Proficiency in English (written and oral).

• In-depth knowledge of technology spend categories including but not limited to software, infrastructure, end-user services, telephony, cybersecurity platforms and services, and reseller/aggregat