Job description
Posted 11 April 2022
Global Procurement Category Manager Glass
Pay rate up to £485 per day via Umbrella inside IR35
Brentford, UK - Flexible remote working available
Initial 3 month contract
Job Description - General Procurement:
- Identifies, evaluates, and manages external suppliers.
- Leads strategic review, with in depth category knowledge of the category.
- Ensures that the right business requirements, and supplier improvement actions are in place to deliver value to GSK
- Manages relationship with external suppliers for the provision of goods and services. Negotiates favourable terms, volume discounts and long-term contracts with suppliers.
- Identification/evaluation of new vendors in line with agreed business requirements, as well as tracking and monitoring of service level agreements and performance standards for existing vendors.
- Leads strategic category management of their category, in partnership with the business and stakeholders.
- Ensure that all value deliver from the category strategy is in line with GSK and Procurement goals
- Manages relationship with external suppliers for the provision of goods and services.
- Negotiates favourable terms, volume discounts and long-term contracts with suppliers, and prepares and processes requisitions and purchase orders for the procurement of goods and services
- May include identification/evaluation of new vendors as well as tracking and monitoring of service level agreements and performance standards for existing vendors.
Basic Qualifications:
We are looking for professionals with these required skills to achieve our goals:
- Bachelor’s Degree.
- Proven experience leveraging procurement analytics/data outputs to generate reports.
- More than 2 years of experience in project management and business operations.
Preferred Qualifications:
If you have the following characteristics, it would be a plus:
- Global Procurement role experience in a manufacturing environment
- Glass or Sterile Industry knowledge
- Advanced Degree in Business Management, or Business Operations
- Ability to multi-task across various requests daily and work independently
- Ability to engage senior leadership with limited direction