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The role establishes the vision and roadmap for process excellence, digital enablement, and policy compliance, ensuring the process enables efficient, compliant, and value-driven procurement outcomes.\nOperating within the Global Procurement Centre of Excellence, the role partners closely with Procurement, Finance, Technology, Risk, Compliance, and business stakeholders to define and evolve global process standards, capabilities, and system solutions. The Sourcing process impacts large populations of internal and external parties, requiring strong leadership across a complex stakeholder landscape.\nThe role drives process harmonization, governance, performance management, and transformation initiatives, ensuring Sourcing capabilities remain scalable, efficient, compliant, data-driven, and aligned to GSK's strategic objectives.\nKey Responsibilities\nOwn the global Sourcing process and supporting technology ecosystem, defining the end-to-end process strategy, operating model, governance framework, standards, and future-state vision on behalf of Global Procurement.\nLead the design, standardization, and optimization of Sourcing processes across Direct and Indirect Procurement, driving simplification, harmonization, scalability, and adoption of leading practices globally.\nLead process transformation initiatives while maintaining business-as-usual process effectiveness, including oversight of testing, release readiness, and deployment of enhancements across process and technology platforms.\nDevelop and execute a continuous improvement and innovation roadmap, leveraging stakeholder insights, external benchmarking, emerging technologies, automation, analytics, and AI-enabled capabilities to ensure the process remains fit for purpose and delivers business value.\nOwn process and technology performance, defining data requirements, governance, key performance indicators, and reporting structures to monitor effectiveness, identify improvement opportunities, and drive measurable outcomes.\nAccountable for maximizing the return on investment of the Sourcing process and supporting technologies, including benefits realization, value tracking, prioritization of enhancement investments, and management of funding requests.\nOwn and maintain the policies, standards, controls, and documentation governing the process, ensuring accuracy, compliance, regulatory alignment, and effective governance across the enterprise.\nDevelop and deliver effective change management, communications, training, and adoption strategies to ensure consistent understanding, execution, and compliance with Sourcing standards and ways of working.\nEnsure audit readiness and business continuity by leading process controls, supporting internal and external audit activities, coordinating issue resolution, risk mitigation, and business continuity planning.\nPartner with Procurement, Finance, Technology, Risk, Compliance, and business stakeholders to govern process priorities, manage demand, influence strategic decisions, and lead a high-performing team responsible for delivering the Sourcing roadmap and ongoing process excellence.\nWhy You?\nMasters of Bachelors degree with overall experience of 18+ years\nDeep expertise in procurement processes, operating models, governance, systems, data, and change management to design, standardize, and continuously improve the global Sourcing process.\nRequires strategic analysis and judgement to resolve complex process, policy, data, and technology challenges where stakeholder needs, system constraints, compliance requirements, and business objectives must be balanced.\nBusiness knowledge and end-to-end procurement process understanding\nStrong stakeholder partnership and cross-functional collaboration to be the face the process\nTechnical understanding and curiosity to translate business requirements to feasible technical requirements\nSkills\nAgile Thinking, Analytical Thinking, Contract Management, Detail-Oriented, Digital Literacy, Interactive Storytelling, Negotiation, Problem Solving, Sourcing Management, Stakeholder ManagementWhy GSK?\nUniting science, technology and talent to get ahead of disease together.\nGSK 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.\nPeople 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.\nInclusion at GSK:\nAs an employer committed to Inclusion, we encourage you to reach out if you need any adjustments during the recruitment process.\nPlease contact our Recruitment Team at  to discuss your needs.\nImportant notice to Employment businesses/ Agencies\nGSK does not accept referrals from employment businesses and/or employment agencies in respect of the vacancies posted on this site. All employment businesses/agencies are required to contact GSK's commercial and general procurement/human resources department to obtain prior written authorization before referring any candidates to GSK. The obtaining of prior written authorization is a condition precedent to any agreement (verbal or written) between the employment business/ agency and GSK. 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