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GlaxoSmithKline (GSK), one of the world’s leading research based
pharmaceutical and healthcare companies, is committed to
improving the quality of human life by enabling people to do
more, feel better and live longer. GSK employs over 97,000
employees in over 100 countries worldwide.
GlaxoSmithKline Consumer Nigeria Plc is one of Africa’s largest
consumer healthcare companies, producing leading brands such as
Lucozade, Ribena and Panadol.
We are recruiting to fill the position of:
Job Title: Head, Procurement
Requisition ID: WD30208
Location: Lagos
Position: Full time
Functional area: Procurement
Job Details
People Leadership:
- Lead and direct Procurement team across multiple countries
within a region
- Develop and implement effective ways of working across the
team to ensure a cohesive approach
- Ensure appropriate communication strategy across the team
is in place and in use
- Develop the team and individual capabilities from both
technical and behavioral aspects
Strategy Creation & Execution:
- Create comprehensive sourcing strategies for spend
categories in scope of responsibility, aligned with the
requirements of stakeholders and business partners
- Identify sustainable, long term savings opportunities
through the strategy creation process, identifying and
exploring all potential value levers
- Create compelling business cases for change and obtain
approval to execute
- Be expert in local categories and supply markets
- Align with appropriate Regional and Global category teams
and work in collaboration with these teams to provide local
business requirements and market information to support
effective collaborative regional and global strategy creation
and execution
Benefit Delivery:
- Deliver benefits identified in strategies, local, regional
and global, through effective and collaborative strategy
execution, aligned to assurance of supply (risk management),
quality, service, cost and innovation
- Business partnering & stakeholder management
- Build strategic relationships with a network of senior GSK
global stakeholders, to understand business requirements,
identify opportunities to create value and to position
Procurement’s value proposition. Align sourcing strategies
accordingly
- Influence key stakeholders and business partners to support
strategy development, endorse recommended strategies, support
execution and agree how benefit delivery will be budgeted.
- Ensure financial benefits are managed in accordance with
the Spend Management Framework approach, ensuring business unit
and Finance agreement to financial value delivered and
transparency on treatment of benefits in the budgeting process
- Create and deliver effective regional budgets (Plans of
Purchase) agreed with key stakeholders and Finance in
accordance with the Spend Management Framework and fully
aligned with global budgets
External Supplier Relationships:
- Build strategic relationships with key suppliers at a
senior level and lead processes to ensure value is driven from
these relationships. Ensure local considerations are accounted
for in global & regional supplier relationships.
- Manage the supply base for the categories within scope
through a robust performance management process. Ensure
supplier performance is understood and measured.
- Develop Operational Excellence strategies and plans for key
suppliers to drive improvement against KPIs
- Lead supply base reviews and strategy reviews.
- Ensure supplier relationships which present potential risks
to GSK (for example where supplier has balance of power,
monopolies, sole sources etc) are managed to minimize risk to
GSK
- Negotiate, create, execute and manage effective contracts
with suppliers that will allow GSK to maximize opportunity.
Influence category teams to ensure regional considerations are
taken into account in global & regional supplier
negotiations and contracts
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 and in use and
that the risks are communicated appropriately within business
units impacted, Procurement and the supply base
Basic Qualifications
- A good first degree.
- MBA, MCIPS preferred.
- At least 7 years experience in strategic procurement
functions.
- Demonstrated experience in influencing strategy and
managing across business units and interfacing with regional
and global teams.
- Demonstrated experience in managing significant projects.
- Demonstrated experience of successfully leading teams
within a country.
- Demonstrated expertise in Procurement processes is
required, particularly with respect to developing &
implementing significant strategies, stakeholder management and
supplier relationship management.
How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
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