Job Title: Senior Manager, External Manufacturing Procurement

Job Description

The Senior Manager, External Manufacturing Procurement is an important role operating in a complex, multi-stakeholder and cross-functional environment.  The position reports to the Category Director, External Manufacturing Procurement in the Direct & Sites Procurement team.  The purpose of the role is to manage External Manufacturing contract manufacturing organizations (CMO’s), strategy and sourcing with a focus on developing and implementing strategies that drive value for patients.  The role will engage with internal stakeholders to understand business requirements, use market intelligence to develop strategies, lead supplier negotiations, and execute contracts.  Responsibilities also include supplier relationship and performance management, integration of new suppliers and delivering business value from all CMO’s aligned to the Category team.

This role will provide you the opportunity to lead key activities. These responsibilities include the following:

• Perform strategic sourcing and contract negotiations to meet the supply strategy for GSK’s assets across the External Manufacturing network.
• Support the implementation of robust category strategies underpinned by strong strategic Contract Manufacturing Organization (CMO) relationships, and leadership endorsed network change business cases used in making critical decisions on future GSK network design.
• Lead the negotiations and ongoing contract management with CMO’s for early phase, commercial and late phase clinical products.
• Set the financial budget for portfolio of contract manufacturing spend based on negotiated pricing and volume forecasts.
• Work across the product lifecycle, from NPI through to late lifecycle portfolio management, to ensure quality, supply, service, and cost requirements to GSK are met.

• Fully understand and develop market intelligence for the category group to understand the CMO supply base in order to benchmark and identify opportunities across various drug product dose forms and packaging formats.
• Ensure performance monitoring and improvement plans are in place with CMO’s, to deliver continuous improvement.
• Lead projects across cross functional teams that include Supply, Procurement, Quality and Technical teams to identify business requirements to support the development and approval of the sourcing strategies, supplier selection and contract execution.
• Deliver contracts with a focus on value creation, key terms, and price negotiation.
• Build relationships with key stakeholders across GSK to support the business strategy, communicating CMO capabilities, supply costs and pricing.
• Drive portfolio optimization to establish a preferred CMO network.
•  As required, visit CMO sites to ensure supply of GSK products.
• Integrate new products into the GSK external network.
• Manage the commercial risk profile of GSK’s CMO network in line with GSK business continuity objectives.
• Ensure delivery of Procurement Policy & Compliance fundamentals including third party risk management

 Why you?

Basic Qualifications:

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

• Bachelor’s Degree in science or business-related field

Preferred Qualifications:

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

• Experience in the assessment through to business award of identified CMO’s
• Experience in managing drug product and packaging categories
• Experience in managing relationships with CMO’s
• Experience in developing sourcing strategies and managing their implementation across multiple geographies and supply chains
• Experience in managing global projects with consideration to diverse location-specific needs and regulations
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Negotiation and contract management experience
• Project management experience
• Change management experience
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Budget management

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