# Director, Procurement North America

**Company**: GSK
**Experience**: executive
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Logistics & Supply Chain
**Industry**: Healthcare

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## Description

The Procurement Director, North America is at the forefront of driving GSK's purpose to unite science, technology, and talent to get ahead of disease together.

You will partner with one or more of the US Business Units (BU's) or commercial functions to build the procurement strategy for the BU(s).

Key responsibilities include:

- Leading sourcing and negotiation initiatives that bring value to the organization and align with our strategy

- Partnering with our matrix global category Procurement colleagues to ensure optimization of our global buying power with local business needs

- Leading large-scale, cross-BU projects

- Supporting the business in the planning and preparation for the launch of new assets, ensuring that procurement strategies align with the dynamic needs of commercialization and market entry

- Supporting the Digital Transformation journey by promoting AI-driven systems, tools, and processes to boost procurement efficiency, streamline workflows, and drive innovation with actionable insights

Basic qualifications:

- Bachelor's degree or 10+ years of procurement experience

- 5+ years of leadership experience

- Indirect procurement experience

- Experience across marketing, sales & tech procurement categories

Preferred qualifications:

- 3+ years Pharma industry experience

- Experience managing the delivery of large sourcing projects and end-to-end service implementation in collaboration with cross-functional teams

- Experience negotiating complex supplier agreements

- Demonstrated success delivering a multi-year strategy ensuring competitive commercial advantage

- Demonstrated ability to forge close business relationships with internal and external stakeholders at all management levels

Benefits include a comprehensive benefits program, which can be found on the GSK US Benefits Summary website.

## Skills

### Required
- Business Acumen
- Contract Management
- Influencing Without Authority
- Interactive Storytelling
- Negotiation
- Problem Solving
- Project Management
- Sourcing Management
- Stakeholder Management
- Vendor Management

### Nice to have
- Pharma industry experience
- Large sourcing project management
- Complex supplier agreement negotiation
- Multi-year strategy delivery
- Business relationship building
- Agile and distributed decision-making
- Managing individual and team performance
- Developing people and building a talent pipeline
- Budgeting and forecasting
- Commercial and financial acumen

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