Direct Procurement Process Manager (Secondment)

Site Name: UK - London - New Oxford Street, Belgium-Wavre

Posted Date: Dec 2 2025

Direct Procurement Process Manager - 18 Months Secondment / FTC

Job Description

The role of the Direct Procurement Process Manager is to provide Direct Procurement process expertise in the design of Direct Procurement processes and systems within the ERP Evolution programme. You will collaborate with other team members within the ERP Evolution programme, both internal and external to GSK.

If your normal place of work will be at GSK HQ or other appropriate site locations, for an initial period until the end of December 2026 the ERP Evolution Programme team will be temporarily based in premises in Chiswick.

In this role you will

• Understand and articulate business requirements as captured by the ERP Evolution programme, analyse design options and provide proposals and options.
• Be a key member of the ERP Evolution workshops ensuring GSK's Direct Procurement process nuances and requirements are discussed and captured in the design of Direct Procurement processes and solutions.
• Work closely with the SI and business representative for Direct Procurement to ensure that information discussed and decisions taken during the workshops are correctly captured and translated into development of the design blueprint.
• Working closely with the SI, ensure that the governance process for the Global process and solution design is adhered to and any matters required to be referred to the Global process and solution design board are captured.
• Work closely with the business implementation team to ensure that the process and system design blueprint created is correctly interpretated and implemented. Ensure that any deviations to the design are discussed and routed via the design authority for approval.

Why you? Qualifications & Skills

We are looking for professionals with these required skills to achieve our goals:

• Understanding of current processes in place for Pharma Direct Procurement is essential for this role
• Deep, specialist expertise and knowledge of the Direct Procurement Business process and how this interacts with other SC Business processes
• Strong SAP ECC Experience in Direct Procurement process (Operational experience and functional understanding)
• Strong experience of working on transformational global programmes, preferably with process and SAP experience
• Ability to define business requirements and deliver changes to global processes
• Ability to manage multifunctional, broad-based/diverse teams
• Stakeholder management skills and experience engaging business customers

Preferred Qualifications & Skills

The following would be a plus:

• Strong interpersonal skills and the ability to establish credibility for professional input
• Ability to build relationships within business teams, being open to the requirements whilst promoting the standard template and processes
• Ability to influence others and broker mutually acceptable solutions
• Ability to operate across a wide variety of levels within the organisation, between detailed hands on operators within the business units through to senior executives

Closing Date for Applications - 12th December 2025 (COB)

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Why GSK?

Uniting science, technology and talent to get ahead of disease together.

GSK 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.

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.

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