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Senior Director EMEA Procurement

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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.

Job Responsibility:

  • 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

Requirements:

  • 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)
What we offer:
  • Competitive base salary
  • Annual bonus based on company performance
  • Flexible working options available for most roles
  • Learning and career development
  • Access to healthcare & wellbeing programmes
  • Employee recognition programmes

Additional Information:

Job Posted:
February 17, 2026

Expiration:
March 03, 2026

Employment Type:
Fulltime
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