Procurement Manager

Site Name:
USA - Pennsylvania - Philadelphia, Durham Blackwell Street

Posted Date:
Oct

About The Role
We are looking for an enthusiastic and proactive Procurement Manager to join our Marketing Services high-performing Procurement team. This is an exciting opportunity for someone early in their procurement career who has a passion for marketing and communications, and wants to build expertise in sourcing, supplier management, and category support.

You'll work alongside a supportive team, gaining exposure to global procurement strategies in areas such as advertising, content production, internal communications, and more. You'll help us ensure the right suppliers are in place, contracts are managed effectively, and value is delivered through efficient, compliant sourcing practices.

This role offers the opportunity to work in a global environment, collaborate across multiple geographies & teams while contributing to GSK's mission of improving health outcomes worldwide. The successful candidate will act as a key interface between procurement and business stakeholders, ensuring that organizational goals are met while adhering to compliance and risk management standards. You will be collaborating with cross-functional teams and influencing stakeholders to achieve our goals.

Key Responsibilities
Procurement & Sourcing Support

• Assist with supplier selection, request for proposals (RFPs), and contract negotiations for marketing services.
• Contribute to sourcing events across categories like content production, internal communications, and digital marketing.
• Help manage procurement ops model, vendor onboarding, and P2P activities.
• Support the business to understand GSK Procurement policies and ensure that users are trained / supported accordingly.

Category Management
Role Focus

• Dedicated to supporting a specific business unit, making the role unique within the team.
• Align category strategy objectives with the business unit team and assist in executing key transformation initiatives to meet business requirements.
• Implement global sourcing strategies with a global mindset, ensuring all specific needs are addressed.
• Serve as a global expert for spend management and the content & production landscape.

Operational Responsibilities

• Develop, lead, execute, and manage global sourcing strategies for low-to-medium complexity sub-categories such as internal communications, advocacy, and corporate affairs.
• Proven ability to deliver cost savings and drive value creation through effective procurement strategies.
• Negotiate contracts with suppliers to ensure favourable terms aligned with business needs.
• Provide support for other category initiatives as required.

Supplier Relationship Management

• Help track supplier performance and compliance against service level agreements.
• Demonstrated experience in managing supplier performance, including contract negotiation, execution, and maintenance helping deploy our ambition partnership framework across strategic suppliers.
• Identify, evaluate, and onboard new vendors when required by strategy and/or business requirements.

Stakeholder Engagement

• Build relationships with business stakeholders to understand their needs and translate them into procurement activities.
• Support alignment of procurement strategy with business goals through collaboration and open communication.
• Navigate through a multi-dimensional and cross functional complex business owner's organisation for Internal com, external com, Policy and government affairs
• Influence key stakeholders and business partners to support strategy development, endorse recommended strategies, support execution and agree how benefit delivery will be budgeted.
• Ensure third party contracts are managed ahead of expiration dates for business continuity and strategic value.

Project Management & Execution

• Experience in leading supplier tender/RFP processes and managing the delivery of sourcing projects in collaboration with cross-functional teams. Manage global/regional projects with consideration for diverse local needs and potential regulations.
• Proven ability to prioritize multiple tasks across projects using project management skills.

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, in use, and that the risks are communicated appropriately within business units impacted, Procurement and the supply base.

Why You?
Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree (or equivalent experience) in Business, Marketing, Finance, Supply Chain/Operations or related field.
• 5+ years of experience with Procurement and/or Marketing
• Experience with data analysis skills to identify cost-saving opportunities, optimize supplier performance, and generate procurement insights for strategic decision-making.
• Experience using Excel and working with data.
• Experience with contracting/contract terms for third party service providers (ie. MSA/SOW/Other)
• Available to work in office 2-3 times per week.

Preferred Skills

• Familiarity with procurement tools or spend management systems (e.g. Ariba).
• Commercial & Financial acumen + Interest or experience in the marketing/communications space.
• Comfortable navigating between different stakeholders and managing priorities, focusing on what matters.
• Negotiation, contract engagement, conflict resolution, and stakeholder influence.

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 purpose to unite science, technology and talent to get ahead of disease together. We aim to positively impact the health of 2.5 billion people by the end of the decade, as a successful, growing company where people can thrive. We get ahead of disease by preventing and treating it with innovation in specialty medicines and vaccines. We focus on four therapeutic areas: respiratory, immunology and inflammation; oncology; HIV; and infectious diseases – to impact health at scale.

People and patients around the world count on the medicines and vaccines we make, so we're committed to creating an environment where our people can thrive and focus on what matters most. Our culture of being ambitious for patients, accountable for impact and doing the right thing is the foundation for how, together, we deliver for patients, shareholders and our people.

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