Senior Director EMEA Procurement

The Senior Director EMEA Procurement provides strategic leadership for regional procurement across key indirect categories—including Marketing & Sales, Technology, Corporate Services, and HR & Benefits—with accountability for approximately £700M in annual external spend.

This role partners closely with senior EMEA Commercial leaders (VP/SVP/GM) to translate business priorities into procurement strategies that deliver measurable top  and bottom-line value, accelerate and optimize priority product launches, maximize sustainability objectives, and mitigate risk, including ensuring continuity of service and supply.

The above is achieved through strong collaboration with regional and global Procurement leaders to develop and execute comprehensive category strategies, lead large scale cross business initiatives, drive high-value negotiations, and ensure compliant, efficient contracting and strategic supplier partnerships.

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

• Lead and develop a high performing, geographically dispersed EMEA Procurement team, building both technical and behavioral capability and establishing cohesive, effective ways of working across countries, LOCs, and global Category teams
• Build and sustain strategic relationships with senior EMEA business stakeholders, positioning Procurement as a trusted partner, identifying value creation opportunities, and influencing decisions that support strategy development and execution
• Set and maintain strong communication and governance rhythms across Regional Procurement and Category teams to ensure alignment, transparency best practice sharing, and consistent execution of procurement priorities
• Partner closely with global and regional teams to provide local business requirements, insights, and market intelligence that shape robust global, regional, and local category and sourcing strategies
• Define and execute regional sourcing strategies for in scope spend categories, ensuring alignment with business needs and delivering value across assurance of supply, quality, service, cost, and innovation
• Own and deliver regional benefit and savings commitments, supporting target setting with Finance and Category Leads and ensuring disciplined, collaborative execution of agreed strategies
• Drive operational excellence and efficiency, including integration of AI solutions and the roll-out of the Procurement Digital Transformation processes and technologies
• Develop and lead senior level relationships with key global, regional and local suppliers, ensuring regional needs are embedded in global and regional negotiations and driving innovative collaboration and performance improvement through structured supplier management
• Negotiate, create, and manage regional and local contracts, ensuring terms support GSK’s commercial objectives, maximize value, and are compliant, efficient, and aligned with long term business priorities

We are seeking professionals with the following required skills and qualifications to help us achieve our goals:

• Bachelor of Arts/Science area of specialization: Procurement, Finance, Supply Chain
• MBA, MCIPS preferred
• Significant years of experience (10-15) in procurement within the pharmaceutical industry, especially in indirect categories of spend
• Demonstrated experience of successfully leading and managing teams across multiple countries
• Demonstrated expertise in Procurement processes is required, particularly with respect to developing & implementing significant strategies, stakeholder management and supplier relationship management
• Demonstrated experience in influencing strategy and managing across multiple geographies (across countries within a region) and business units
• Strong influencing, strategic thinking and interpersonal skills to build relationships and partner with senior internal and external stakeholders
• High integrity with the ability to manage multiple priorities and responsibilities while maintaining professional standards
• Skilled at resolving issues and removing blockers, identifying and mitigating risks, supporting implementation, and producing robust spend and savings forecasts
• Experienced in planning strategy and leading complex, high value, multi country negotiations and long-term contracts
• English proficiency (written and oral)

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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.

GSK is an Equal Opportunity Employer. This ensures that all qualified applicants will receive equal consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, gender identity, and sexual orientation), parental status, national origin, age, disability, genetic information (including family medical history), military service or any basis prohibited under federal, state or local law.

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