Senior Procurement Manager - Consulting Services in Welwyn Garden City

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A healthier future. It’s what drives us to innovate. To continuously advance science and ensure everyone has access to the healthcare they need today and for generations to come. Creating a world where we all have more time with the people we love. That’s what makes us Roche.

Healthcare is evolving, and Global Procurement is responding by continuously striving for the highest possible performance, taking innovative and strategic approaches to business and supplier partnerships. Global Procurement proactively manages the entire supplier ecosystem, making a vital contribution to improving health outcomes, reducing costs for patients and global healthcare systems, and ensuring that Roche continues doing now what patients need next.

This role sits within the Indirect Procurement Delivery group, which covers the core procurement activities from category management, strategic sourcing, supplier management, contracting, content strategy definition, and execution. The Indirect Procurement Delivery group comprises many communities grouping categories of the same value chain or having commonality, including Research & Development, Commercial and Corporate Services, Digital & Technology, and Facilities. The communities are key enablers of strong category expertise while allowing flexibility in the procurement delivery response to the evolving needs of our customers.

As a Senior Procurement Manager in Consulting Services, you will bring analytical thinking, planning, execution, and focus to the procurement sourcing and delivery capability area. Using your specialized knowledge and in-depth expertise in a specific category or spend areas and procurement overall, you will proactively identify and drive strategies and approaches for managing and sourcing third party spend requirements. You can also play the role of Category strategy owner in charge of driving, coordinating and signing the category strategy.

You will collaborate with internal procurement (such as Business Partnering, Insights, Analytics, Contracting, etc.) and business stakeholders to build and implement comprehensive category sourcing and spend management strategies aligned with business needs and functional objectives.

You will work closely with other team members, as a peer coach, project, or workstream lead to identify opportunities to aggregate customer demand, drive buying channel automation, deliver on day-to-day activities, and provide capacity, expertise, and oversight to productivity and other customer-oriented projects/solutions.

As a Senior Procurement Manager in Consulting Services, you will play a variety of roles according to your experience, knowledge, and general business requirements, including but not limited to:

• You are a Category and sourcing subject matter expert in Consulting Services conducting market and internal analysis to develop strategies, best practices, and guidance on tactical plans for how Roche should source and negotiate for third party goods and services in order to satisfy stakeholder requirements and maximize the value for Roche.
• You are a Procurement delivery practitioner delivering and executing sourcing strategies and major initiatives by leveraging spend, category know-how, robust sourcing, negotiation, contracting, supplier management methodologies and project management skills, and/or supporting team members by coaching them and enhancing their skills and knowledge.
• You develop content and automation, implement category strategies, develop category specific policies, translating sourcing strategy into content and automated buying channels guidelines, best practices and communication materials that improve business adoption, satisfaction, and overall efficiency.
• You are able to influence Senior Leaders in decision-making and remove barriers to ensure the delivery of high-quality customer-oriented sourcing and spend management strategies.
• You have proven capability to engage in complex discussions with senior leaders (e.g., CEC-1) and provide expert Procurement advisory support.

Who you are:

• You hold a university degree, preferably in business or a science-related discipline.
• You have significant procurement experience across strategic sourcing, global category management, complex contracting, and operational efficiency initiatives. In addition, proven professional experience within a consulting environment is preferred.
• You possess strong and deep knowledge and have experience in the Consulting Category, and other Professional Services categories and overall understanding of other commodities.
• You also have deep knowledge and experience in supplier management, contract negotiations, cost optimization, market research & analysis in the Consulting Category, and understand the applicable regulations and industry standards pertinent to Consulting category strategies.
• You have a proven track record of implementing category strategies and frameworks, along with a strong interest in AI and the opportunities it offers to further enhance category management and strategies (e.g., automated KPI reporting).
• You have expertise in procurement end-to-end systems and processes.
• You have significant experience in managing matrix teams in a global, fluid and interactive environment.
• You are a strong advocate of agile ways of working, with direct experience in agile leadership is preferred.
• You demonstrate curiosity, active listening and a willingness to experiment and test new ideas when appropriate, with the focus very much on continuous learning and improvement.
• You are open-minded and inclusive, generously sharing ideas and knowledge, while being receptive to ideas and feedback from others.
• You have experience in project management including change management and process improvement with direct experience in delivering complex business process / organizational change projects.
• You are fluent in English to a Business level.

Join our team and enable the strong capability expertise needed to meet the evolving needs of our customers. Relocation benefits are not available for this posting.

A healthier future drives us to innovate. Together, more than 100’000 employees across the globe are dedicated to advance science, ensuring everyone has access to healthcare today and for generations to come. Our efforts result in more than 26 million people treated with our medicines and over 30 billion tests conducted using our Diagnostics products. We empower each other to explore new possibilities, foster creativity, and keep our ambitions high, so we can deliver life-changing healthcare solutions that make a global impact.

Let’s build a healthier future, together.

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