Employer: GlaxoSmithKline (GSK)
Our Company, GlaxoSmithKline (GSK), one of the world's leading research based pharmaceutical and healthcare companies, is committed to improving the quality of human life by enabling people to do more, feel better and live longer. GSK employs over 97,000 employees in over 100 countries worldwide.
Our Company, GlaxoSmithKline (GSK), one of the world's leading research based pharmaceutical and healthcare companies, is committed to improving the quality of human life by enabling people to do more, feel better and live longer. GSK employs over 97,000 employees in over 100 countries worldwide.
We are recruiting to fill the position of:
Job Title: Head, Procurement
Job Title: Head, Procurement
Requisition ID: WD30208
Location: Lagos
Position: Full time
Functional area: Procurement
Job Details
People Leadership:
People Leadership:
Lead and direct Procurement team across multiple countries within a region
Develop and implement effective ways of working across the team to ensure a cohesive approach
Ensure appropriate communication strategy across the team is in place and in use
Develop the team and individual capabilities from both technical and behavioral aspects
Strategy Creation & Execution:
Create comprehensive sourcing strategies for spend categories in scope of responsibility, aligned with the requirements of stakeholders and business partners
Identify sustainable, long term savings opportunities through the strategy creation process, identifying and exploring all potential value levers
Create compelling business cases for change and obtain approval to execute
Be expert in local categories and supply markets
Align with appropriate Regional and Global category teams and work in collaboration with these teams to provide local business requirements and market information to support effective collaborative regional and global strategy creation and execution
Benefit Delivery:
Deliver benefits identified in strategies, local, regional and global, through effective and collaborative strategy execution, aligned to assurance of supply (risk management), quality, service, cost and innovation
Business partnering & stakeholder management
Build strategic relationships with a network of senior GSK global stakeholders, to understand business requirements, identify opportunities to create value and to position Procurement’s value proposition. Align sourcing strategies accordingly
Influence key stakeholders and business partners to support strategy development, endorse recommended strategies, support execution and agree how benefit delivery will be budgeted.
Ensure financial benefits are managed in accordance with the Spend Management Framework approach, ensuring business unit and Finance agreement to financial value delivered and transparency on treatment of benefits in the budgeting process
Create and deliver effective regional budgets (Plans of Purchase) agreed with key stakeholders and Finance in accordance with the Spend Management Framework and fully aligned with global budgets
External Supplier Relationships:
Build strategic relationships with key suppliers at a senior level and lead processes to ensure value is driven from these relationships. Ensure local considerations are accounted for in global & regional supplier relationships.
Manage the supply base for the categories within scope through a robust performance management process. Ensure supplier performance is understood and measured.
Develop Operational Excellence strategies and plans for key suppliers to drive improvement against KPIs
Lead supply base reviews and strategy reviews.
Ensure supplier relationships which present potential risks to GSK (for example where supplier has balance of power, monopolies, sole sources etc) are managed to minimize risk to GSK
Negotiate, create, execute and manage effective contracts with suppliers that will allow GSK to maximize opportunity. Influence category teams to ensure regional considerations are taken into account in global & regional supplier negotiations and contracts
Supply Chain & Risk Management
Transform the supply chain to release value and make GSK more responsive to business and customer needs - for example in cost control, complexity reduction, simplification, best practice procurement and use of KPIs
Identify and manage significant risks in the supply chain. Ensure appropriate mitigation plans are in place and in use and that the risks are communicated appropriately within business units impacted, Procurement and the supply base
Basic Qualifications
A good first degree.
MBA, MCIPS preferred.
At least 7 years experience in strategic procurement functions.
Demonstrated experience in influencing strategy and managing across business units and interfacing with regional and global teams.
Demonstrated experience in managing significant projects.
Demonstrated experience of successfully leading teams within a country.
Demonstrated expertise in Procurement processes is required, particularly with respect to developing & implementing significant strategies, stakeholder management and supplier relationship management.
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