Senior Manager - Manufacturing

We’re excited to be moving to our vibrant new home on New Oxford Street in central London from the end of June 2024. At GSK HQ, we’re building an energising space where we can connect, collaborate and get ahead of disease together. Designed especially for us, it’ll be one of the healthiest workplaces in the world, with best-in-class tech and bright, light spaces to help us thrive. Job Title : Senior Manager, External Manufacturing Procurement The Senior Manager, External Manufacturing Procurement is an important role operating in a complex, multi-stakeholder and cross-functional environment. The position reports to the Category Director, External Manufacturing Procurement in the Direct & Sites Procurement team. The purpose of the role is to manage External Manufacturing contract manufacturing organizations (CMO’s), strategy and sourcing with a focus on developing and implementing strategies that drive value for patients. The role will engage with internal stakeholders to understand business requirements, use market intelligence to develop strategies, lead supplier negotiations, and execute contracts. Responsibilities also include supplier relationship and performance management, integration of new suppliers and delivering business value from all CMO’s aligned to the Category team. Perform strategic sourcing and contract negotiations to meet the supply strategy for GSK’s assets across the External Manufacturing network. Support the implementation of robust category strategies underpinned by strong strategic Contract Manufacturing Organization (CMO) relationships, and leadership endorsed network change business cases used in making critical decisions on future GSK network design. Lead the negotiations and ongoing contract management with CMO’s for commercial and late phase clinical products. Set the financial budget for portfolio of contract manufacturing spend based on negotiated pricing and volume forecasts. Work across the product lifecycle, from NPI through to late lifecycle portfolio management, to ensure quality, supply, service, andcost requirements to GSK are met. Fully understand and develop market intelligence for the category group to understand the CMO supply base in order to benchmark and identify opportunities, relative to small molecule drug products (oral solid dose, derms) and packaging. Ensure performance monitoring and improvement plans are in place with CMO’s, to deliver continuous improvement. Lead projects across cross functional teams that include Supply, Procurement, Quality and Technical teams to identify business requirements to support the development and approval of the sourcing strategies, supplier selection and contract execution. Drive portfolio optimization to establish a preferred CMO network. Integrate new products into the GSK external network. Manage the commercial risk profile of GSK’s CMO network in line with GSK business continuity objectives. Ensure delivery of Procurement Policy & Compliance fundamentals: third party risk management, capacity availability etc. We are looking for professionals with the following skills to help us achieve our goals: Bachelor’s Degree in science or business-related field Experience in developing sourcing strategies and managing their implementation across multiple geographies and supply chains Experience in managing global/regional projects with consideration to diverse location-specific needs and regulations Project management experience Change management experience Budget management We focus on the science of the immune system and the use of new platform and data technologies, investing in four core therapeutic areas (infectious diseases, HIV, respiratory/ immunology and oncology). 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