Senior Manager, Procurement - Canada

GSK•Mississauga, ON

1d•Hybrid

About The Position

GSK is a global biopharma company with a purpose to unite science, technology and talent to get ahead of disease together. This role is for a Senior Manager, Procurement in Canada, responsible for supporting the Canadian business across the full procurement lifecycle, including stakeholder engagement, sourcing, contracting, and supplier management. The role is critical in enabling business outcomes while ensuring compliance, value delivery, and effective third-party risk management. The company has bold commercial ambitions, aiming to deliver £40 billion in annual sales by 2031 through its Ahead Together strategy, focusing on early intervention to prevent and alter the course of disease. GSK's diverse portfolio includes vaccines, specialty medicines, and general medicines, driven by continuous innovation and scientific excellence.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree.
5+ years of experience in indirect procurement supporting commercial spend areas, such as Professional Services, Technology, Digital, Marketing, Media, Market Research, and Data.
Experience across core procurement processes, particularly third-party contracting, stakeholder management, and supplier relationship management.
Demonstrated experience across procurement processes, including: strategy development and execution, third party contracting, stakeholder management, business partnering, and Supplier Relationship Management (SRM).
Proven contract drafting and negotiation experience, including agreements such as Master Service Agreements (MSA), Software as a Service Agreements (SaaS), Statements of Work (SOW), and related third-party contracts.
Experience leading competitive sourcing activities, including end-to-end execution of RFx processes (RFP, RFQ, RFI).

Nice To Haves

Experience in Pharma/Biotech or another highly regulated environment.
Comfort working with ambiguity or limited information.
Proven negotiation and project management experience.
Strong proficiency in Microsoft tools and SAP Ariba modules.

Responsibilities

Represent the best interests of the Canadian market by aligning closely with Regional and Global category teams.
Act as the local subject matter expert, providing market insights and business requirements to support effective regional and global strategy development and execution.
Execute global and local sourcing strategies across multiple spend categories within scope, including Professional Services, Technology, Digital, Marketing, Media, Market Research, and Data, operating with a global mindset while ensuring all relevant local and regional considerations are addressed.
Understand commercial standards and ensure category alignment for third-party processes and services.
Support the business in understanding and complying with GSK Procurement policies, ensuring users are appropriately trained and supported.
Serve as the local expert on third party oversight and risk management frameworks to protect GSK in supplier interactions and contracting activities.
Ensure financial benefits are managed in accordance with the Global spend management framework, including alignment with Finance and business stakeholders on value delivery and transparency in budget treatment.
Deliver Procurement targets against agreed budgets (Plans of Purchase) in collaboration with key stakeholders and Finance ensuring alignment with the global and regional budgets.
Identify and deliver value aligned to assurance of supply, quality, service, cost, and innovation through effective execution of category strategies.
Drive operational efficiencies by ensuring compliance with contract and preferred supplier lists, while actively managing tail spend.
Build and maintain strong, strategic relationships with local GSK stakeholders to understand business needs, identify value-creation opportunities, and clearly articulate Procurement’s value proposition.
Influence stakeholders and business partners to support strategy development, endorse recommended sourcing approaches, enable execution, and align on how benefit realization and budgeting.
Ensure third party contracts are proactively managed ahead of expiration to support business continuity and long -term value.
Define and negotiate commercial terms and manage the contracting process, partnering closely with Legal to meet business requirements.
Execute and manage effective supplier contracts that enable GSK to maximize value both locally and globally, ensuring global perspectives are incorporated into supplier negotiations.
Ensure all contracts are valid, compliant, and accurately maintained within GSK’s contract management systems.
Manage the local supply base for in-scope categories through robust supplier relationship and performance management processes, ensuring supplier performance is measured and understood.
Establish effective processes and communication links between country-level supplier organizations and local, regional, and global networks, cascading information across suppliers and GSK stakeholders.
Support the transformation of supply chain to unlock value and increase responsiveness to business and customer needs, including cost control, complexity reduction, simplification, and adoption of best-practice procurement approaches and KPIs.
Identify, assess, and manage significant supply chain and third-party risks, ensuring appropriate mitigation plans are developed, implemented, and clearly communicated to impacted business units.