Senior Procurement Manager - Professional Services

Site Name: Durham Blackwell Street

Posted Date: Jul 10 2024

As the Senior Procurement Manager for the Professional and Legal Services Team you will represent GSK and act as an interface internally with GSKs Legal Function and Externally with third party Legal Firms & Strategic Consultants.

This role represents a great opportunity to build strong relationships with a variety of diverse and senior stakeholders. You will need to build and maintain relationships to understand the company’s overall objectives and then advise how procurement can help achieve these goals. This may include building buying strategies, ambitious cost savings, managing risk and/or ensuring that the right suppliers are being chosen and/or if a third party is required or whether there are alternative solutions such as in-house or outsourcing approaches.

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

• Manage the end to end process to develop category sourcing approach and drive value generation across categories within Professional Services, specifically Legal Services
• Own complex stakeholder relationships, specifically within GSKs Legal Ops function but also across varied project work
• Execute global sourcing strategies across multiple spend categories in scope of responsibility, operating with a truly global mindset and ensuring all applicable markets or regional dimensions are accommodated
• Drive synergies where appropriate with other Corporate services categories
• Contract planning, negotiation, execution, interpretation and maintenance; conducts and monitors negotiations across the applicable categories of spend
• Knows the sourcing group management process and policies; assesses risk
• Awareness and adherence to risk/ regulatory/ compliance requirements
• Develop & execute supplier relationship management
• Implements procurement strategies to maximise supplier leverage in a complex matrix organisation
• Support development and execution of should cost pricing
• Benchmarking across ancillary legal suppliers, legal technology and law firms
  
  
  

Why you?

Basic Qualifications:

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

• Bachelor’s degree
• 7+ years Procurement or Legal experience
• Experience negotiating commercial contracts
• Pharmaceutical, healthcare, or consumer goods industry experience
  
  
  

Preferred Qualifications:

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

• Ability to build strong relationships with a variety of diverse and senior stakeholders
• Excellent communication skills & leadership capability to manage people and processes
• Innovative thinking to drive changes and process improvements
• Ability to work in a complex and multi-cultural environment
• Excellent business acumen, analytical, and financial skills
• Familiarity with eSourcing and various auction techniques
• Basic understanding of legal industry, key suppliers/firms and trends
  
  
  

Please visit GSK US Benefits Summary to learn more about the comprehensive benefits program GSK offers US employees.

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 science of the immune system and the use of new platform and data technologies, investing in four core therapeutic areas (infectious diseases, HIV, respiratory/ immunology and oncology).

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.

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