Senior Manager, Secondary Packaging Procurement in England

Site Name: Warsaw, Barnard Castle, UK – London – New Oxford Street

GSK remains committed to achieving bold commercial ambitions for the future. By ****, 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 centered on early intervention to prevent and alter the course of disease, thereby protecting people and supporting healthcare systems. Our diverse portfolio consists of vaccines, specialty medicines, and general medicines. Through 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.

The Senior Global Category Manager is accountable for all sourcing and contract management across their assigned category - cartons, labels, leaflets and corrugates. This will include the development and implementation of category strategies; the contracting for master/service/product agreements within the categories; the management of supplier relationships that fall outside of the enterprise SRM structure for these categories; and for ensuring the suppliers key to their category commit to deliver GSK's performance/quality/financial requirements. Category spend is ~£100m p.a. across 12 GSK packaging sites in UK, Europe and North America, responsible for 20+ suppliers, 50+ different supplier sites, and over 14,000 SKUs across the portfolio.

Key Responsibilities:

• Independently manage or support one or more categories/commodities, often across multiple countries requiring high cultural awareness and oversight of medium-to-low spend.
• Develop and implement global or regional sourcing and category strategies that ensure supply security, quality, service, cost control and innovation.
• Negotiate, execute and maintain supplier contracts to secure favourable commercial and compliance terms throughout the contract lifecycle.
• Lead strategic relationships with critical suppliers to drive cost-effectiveness, innovation and measurable value delivery.
• Plan and lead projects to deliver savings and mitigate supply, quality or commercial risks.
• Build and maintain strong partnerships with internal GSK stakeholders to align sourcing strategies with business requirements and represent the category in strategic forums.
• Manage the supply base using robust performance management (KPIs, reviews, remediation) and continuous improvement practices.
• Develop and implement risk mitigation and continuity plans to manage supply interruptions and operational disruptions.
• Ensure all sourcing activity adheres to regulatory, compliance and risk requirements across complex GSK processes.
• Champion and enforce procurement policies and governance across functions, linking sourcing execution to GSK's broader strategic objectives.

Why You?

Basic Qualification:

• Bachelor's degree in Procurement, Business, Finance or Engineering.
• 5–8 years operational Procurement experience, including work in regulated environments.
• Proven ability to develop and implement sourcing and category strategies.
• Experience influencing strategy and managing across multiple geographies and supply chains.
• Strong knowledge of procurement tools: sourcing, quotation analysis, supplier review and supplier development.
• Extensive contracting expertise (planning, negotiation, execution, interpretation and maintenance); skilled in complex negotiations.
• Experience in risk management and development of supply continuity and mitigation plans.
• Good commercial and legal understanding, including cost benchmarking and financial audits with suppliers.
• Excellent stakeholder management, influencing, negotiation and communication skills.
• Fluent in English.

Working model: This role is hybrid. You will be expected to work from our Poland office regularly and be available for in-person collaboration.

Why GSK?

Career at one of the leading global healthcare companies. Contract of employment. Attractive reward package (annual bonus oncology; HIV; and infectious diseases – to impact health at scale. People 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. GSK is an Equal Opportunity Employer. This ensures that all qualified applicants will receive equal consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, gender identity, and sexual orientation), parental status, national origin, age, disability, genetic information (including family medical history), military service or any basis prohibited under federal, state or local law.