Category Manager - External Manufacturing Procurement

Category Manager – External Manufacturing Procurement

The Category Manager, External Manufacturing Procurement is an important role operating in a complex, multi-stakeholder and cross-functional environment. The position reports to the Senior Category Manager, External Manufacturing Procurement in the Direct & Sites Procurement team. The purpose of the role is to manage External Manufacturing contract manufacturing organizations (CMO’s), with a focus on implementing strategies that drive value for patients. The role will engage with internal stakeholders to understand business requirements, support the development of strategies, lead supplier negotiations with managed CMOs, 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.

We create a place where people can grow, be their best, be safe, and feel welcome, valued and included. We offer a competitive salary, an annual bonus based on company performance, healthcare and wellbeing programmes, pension plan membership, and shares and savings programme.

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In this role you will

• Support 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. Delivering contracts with a focus on value creation, risk management, key terms, and price negotiation
• 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.
• Support performance monitoring and improvement plans with CMO’s, to deliver continuous improvement.

Why you?

Basic Qualifications & Skills:

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

• Bachelor’s Degree in science or business-related field
• Multiple years’ experience in Procurement including; management of Procurement tools such as sourcing, quotation analysis, contract negotiation, supplier review, supplier development, contracting and others
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Negotiation and contract management experience

Preferred Qualifications & Skills:

Please note the following skills are not necessary, just preferred, if you do not have them, please still apply:

• Experience in managing relationships with CMO’s
• Experience in implementing sourcing strategies across multiple geographies and supply chains
• Experience in working on global/regional projects with consideration to diverse location-specific needs and regulations
• Project management experience
• Change management experience
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills

Closing Date for Applications – 9th October 2024 (COB)

Please take a copy of the Job Description, as this will not be available post closure of the advert. 
When applying for this role, please use the ‘cover letter’ of the online application or your CV to describe how you meet the competencies for this role, as outlined in the job requirements above. The information that you have provided in your cover letter and CV will be used to assess your application.

Why GSK?

Uniting science, technology and talent to get ahead of disease together.

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. We prevent and treat disease with vaccines, specialty and general medicines. We focus on the scie