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By 2031, we aim to deliver £40 billion in annual sales, leveraging our existing strong performance momentum to significantly increase our positive impact on the health of billions of patients globally. Our Ahead Together strategy is centred on early intervention to prevent and alter the course of disease, thereby protecting people and supporting healthcare systems.\nOur diverse portfolio consists of vaccines, specialty medicines, and general medicines.\nThrough continuous innovation and a dedicated focus on scientific and technical excellence, we strive to develop and launch new, groundbreaking treatments that address critical health challenges.\nJob Purpose\nThe Strategic Supplier Manager maximises the value DPTF obtains from its strategic technology suppliers and managed service partners. The role manages those relationships, runs the supplier governance and performance review cycle, holds partners to their committed outcomes, and identifies where partner capability can be used more effectively to accelerate delivery and reduce manual effort.\nThe role carries direct accountability for the relationships in its portfolio. Procurement and Legal own contractual and commercial negotiation, and this role supplies the performance, value and risk evidence behind it; the platform and product domains own the demand for supplier capability. It partners with the Technology Performance Manager where services span internal teams and partner-delivered capability, and with Business Operations and Finance on spend and commercial position.\nKey Responsibilities\nManage the relationships with DPTF's strategic technology suppliers and managed service partners, acting as the senior point of contact for performance and value.\nDevelop and maintain a supplier strategy for each strategic partner, setting out what GSK expects from the relationship over time in capability, performance, commercial terms and risk, and reviewing it as the partnership evolves.\nRun the supplier governance cycle, including operational reviews, quarterly business reviews and executive reviews, ensuring each has a clear agenda, a supporting evidence base and agreed actions.\nHold suppliers to their committed outcomes, SLAs and OKRs, measured on the same basis as internally delivered work.\nDrive value realisation from supplier partnerships, tracking what was committed commercially and operationally against what has been delivered.\nIdentify opportunities to use partner capability more effectively, including where suppliers can accelerate delivery, reduce toil or provide capability GSK does not hold internally.\nSupport contract and partnership optimisation led by Procurement, providing the performance and value evidence needed for renewal, renegotiation and consolidation decisions.\nWork with the Technology Performance Manager to assess end-to-end performance where delivery and service span internal teams and supplier-provided capability.\nEscalate and resolve supplier performance issues, agreeing remediation plans and holding partners to them through to closure.\nMaintain visibility of the strategic supplier landscape, including scope, spend, dependency and concentration risk, and coordinate supplier demand across the platform and product domains so that each partner meets one consistent GSK position instead of several.\nSupport Procurement and Legal in commercial and contractual negotiation, supplying the performance, value and risk evidence on which their position is built, and manage supplier risk, compliance and business continuity, including exit and transition arrangements.\nUse AI and analytics to accelerate supplier performance analysis, spend transparency and review preparation.\nMinimum Level of Job-Related Experience Required\nOverall 15+ Years of exp, typically 8-10 years in strategic supplier or vendor management, commercial management, or technology sourcing and partner governance roles.\nExperience owning senior relationships with major technology suppliers or managed service providers.\nExperience running supplier governance cycles, including quarterly business reviews and executive review forums.\nProven ability to hold suppliers to contracted outcomes, SLAs and service commitments, including through formal remediation.\nExperience providing the performance and value evidence used in renewal, renegotiation or consolidation decisions.\nExperience supporting Procurement and Legal through commercial and contractual negotiation, and managing supplier risk, compliance and business continuity including exit and transition.\nFamiliarity with supplier performance analytics and AI-enabled tooling for spend and performance transparency.\nSkills/Background\nStrong commercial acumen, able to interpret contracts, spend and performance data and identify where value is being lost.\nStrong relationship management and influencing skills, able to hold a firm position with a supplier while sustaining a productive long-term partnership.\nExcellent communication skills, able to present supplier performance clearly to executive audiences on both sides of the relationship.\nAbility to coordinate demand across multiple internal domains into a single consistent position.\nWell organised, able to run concurrent governance cycles across several major suppliers.\n Skills\nAgile Methodology, Commercial Management, Cross-Functional Teamwork, Data Analysis, Design Thinking, DevOps, Partnership Management, Prioritization, Product Development Research, Product Roadmapping, Project Management, Return on Investment (ROI), Software Development, Strategic Support, Strategy Deployment, Technology Sourcing, User Experience (UX), User Interface (UI) Design, Vendor 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. In the absence of such written authorization being obtained any actions undertaken by the employment business/agency shall be deemed to have been performed without the consent or contractual agreement of GSK. GSK shall therefore not be liable for any fees arising from such actions or any fees arising from any referrals by employment businesses/agencies in respect of the vacancies posted on this site.\nIt has come to our attention that the names of GlaxoSmithKline or GSK or our group companies are being used in connection with bogus job advertisements or through unsolicited emails asking candidates to make some payments for recruitment opportunities and interview. Please be advised that such advertisements and emails are not connected with the GlaxoSmithKline group in any way.\nGlaxoSmithKline does not charge any fee whatsoever for recruitment process. Please do not make payments to any individuals / entities in connection with recruitment with any GlaxoSmithKline (or GSK) group company at any worldwide location. Even if they claim that the money is refundable.\nIf you come across unsolicited email from email addresses not ending in gsk.com or job advertisements which state that you should contact an email address that does not end in “gsk.com”, you should disregard the same and inform us by emailing , so that we can confirm to you if the job is genuine.","description_format":"text","description_chars":8908,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":8,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":null,"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":[],"hiring_locations":[{"name":"India","iso":"IN","kind":"country"}],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Prescription Drugs","Vaccines","Oncology Therapeutics","Infectious Disease Therapeutics"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-10-17T02:27:04Z"}],"visa":[],"liveness":{"score":40,"band":"fade","label":"Fading","p_open":1,"p_active":0.726,"p_room":0.55,"age_days":5,"expected_fill_days":5,"reasons":["conf:0","velocity","win:tail","comp:brand"],"computed_at":"2026-10-21T05:46:15Z"},"pay":null,"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/gsk-strategic-supplier-manager","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/gsk-strategic-supplier-manager.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-10-22T03:38:19Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","about":"Alion is a live layer of people, companies and AI agents: who they are, whether they are real and active right now, what they do and how to work with them, readable by people and by agents and paid per call.","catalog":"https://alion.io/catalog.json","usage":{"tier":"crawler_verified","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":3544,"day_limit":null,"remaining_today":null,"minute_limit":300,"resets_at":"2026-10-23T00:00:00Z"}},"offers":[{"id":"company.slices","title":"One company in depth, by slice","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002,"plus_per_slice":{"credits":0.05,"usd":0.005}},"unit":"per company, plus each slice with data","note":"the employer in depth","call":{"mcp_tool":"get_company","arguments":{"id":6649},"rest":"https://alion.io/mcp/rest/get_company?id=6649"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.slices&for=job%2Fgsk-strategic-supplier-manager"},{"id":"market.stats","title":"A market slice: pay, demand and time to fill","status":"live","price":{"credits":1,"usd":0.1},"unit":"per slice","note":"pay, demand and time to fill for this role and place","call":{"mcp_tool":"market_stats"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=market.stats&for=job%2Fgsk-strategic-supplier-manager"},{"id":"job.search","title":"Open jobs by role, technology, place, pay and visa","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002},"unit":"per posting in a list","note":"similar open postings","call":{"mcp_tool":"search_jobs"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=job.search&for=job%2Fgsk-strategic-supplier-manager"},{"id":"company.verify","title":"Is this company real and active right now","status":"pilot","price":null,"unit":"per company","request":{"url":"https://alion.io/catalog/request","method":"POST","body":"{\"offer\": \"company.verify\", \"for\": \"job/gsk-strategic-supplier-manager\", \"note\": \"what you need it for\"}"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.verify&for=job%2Fgsk-strategic-supplier-manager"}]}