Procurement Capability Lead Sourcing in Plymouth

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A healthier future 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 Delivery group, which covers the core procurement activities from category management, strategic and operational sourcing, supplier management, contracting, content strategy definition, and execution. The Delivery group comprises many communities grouping categories of the same value chain or having commonality. The communities are key enablers of strong category expertise while allowing flexibility in the procurement delivery response to the evolving needs of our customers. This position is part of the Indirect Procurement Delivery leadership team reporting into the Head of Indirect Procurement Delivery.

As a Capability Lead - Sourcing, you will work in a dynamic global environment where you will bring analytical thinking, planning, execution, and focus to the procurement sourcing and delivery capability area. You will utilise your leadership expertise and your specialized knowledge and in-depth expertise in sourcing, operational excellence, Digital/AI application in sourcing, and procurement overall, to drive collaboration with internal procurement and functional management to contribute and implement a best-in-class procurement delivery capability in your area.

You will be responsible for the end-to-end management and strategic direction of Sourcing within Global Procurement, drive alignment with the overarching Procurement strategy, digital initiatives, and customer satisfaction, and ensure consistent application of procurement methodologies. You will also contribute to continuous improvement projects and support both Procurement Delivery Chapters, by clearly defining what excellence looks like for operational sourcing, establishing an integrated plan and applying a data driven approach to measure progress against this plan, while removing impediments and blockers, ensuring user adoption, and enhancing overall procurement delivery performance.

You will collaborate with internal procurement (such as both Delivery Chapters, Customer Excellence, Insights, Analytics, Contracting, Learning and Development, etc.), Roche Services and Solutions, functional management and business stakeholders to build and implement a best in class procurement delivery capability ensuring balanced team and external partner resource utilisation, consistent application of procurement methodologies and contribution to continuous improvement projects.

You will work closely with other team members, as a peer coach, project, or workstream lead to identify opportunities for continuous improvement and further automation of core Procurement processes, especially in sourcing and capturing negotiated contract business terms in the contract, and provide capacity, expertise, and oversight to productivity and other customer oriented projects/solutions.

As a Capability Lead - Sourcing, you will play a variety of roles according to your experience, knowledge, and general business requirements, including but not limited to:

• You are a subject matter expert in sourcing and operational excellence evaluating project requests and business needs to develop and execute strategies and best practices for the Sourcing Capability area in alignment with the Procurement strategy, digital initiatives and stakeholder / business needs.
• You will own the end-to-end process for the Sourcing Capability area, from strategic conception to end-user adoption, ensuring seamless integration and a consistent approach to operational sourcing within Global Procurement.
• You develop content and automation, Sourcing guidelines, best practices, training and communication materials that improve adoption, satisfaction, and overall efficiency of the Sourcing Capability within Global Procurement.

Who you are:

• You hold a university degree, preferably in business or a related discipline.
• You have 10+ years of procurement experience in strategic and operational sourcing, and operational category efficiency projects.
• You have demonstrated success in managing (internal and/or external) service providers and building productive while cost efficient partnerships.
• You have experience in application of AI / digital tools (beyond eSourcing and eAuction) to automate simpler sourcing engagements.
• You have significant experience in managing teams in a global, fluid and interactive environment, ideally in a matrix environment.
• You are a strong advocate of agile ways of working, preferably with direct experience in agile leadership.
• You have expertise in procurement end-to-end systems and processes.
• 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.

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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