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About the Role
Lead sourcing, category strategy, supplier relationship management, and commercial execution across a portfolio of external manufacturing partners supporting biologics drug substance & drug product supply. This is a hands-on strategic role without direct reports, offering broad exposure across GSK’s external manufacturing network, senior stakeholders, and critical product activity.
Responsibilities
- Lead end-to-end category and sourcing strategies for outsourced large-molecule drug substance and drug product manufacturing services.
- Run complex sourcing activities and negotiate contracts, including master service agreements, statements of work, pricing arrangements and long-term capacity agreements.
- Manage strategic relationships with contract development and manufacturing organisations and other critical external partners.
- Work across Procurement, External Manufacturing Operations, R&D, Technical, Supply Chain, Quality, Finance, Legal and product teams.
- Support new product introductions, technology transfers, capacity expansion, supplier transitions and supply-continuity activities.
- Balance value, quality, service, resilience, innovation and risk when making commercial and supplier decisions.
Requirements
- A degree in business, supply chain, engineering, life sciences, pharmaceutical sciences or a related discipline, or equivalent relevant expertise.
- Strong direct procurement experience, including category strategy, strategic sourcing and contract negotiation.
- Experience leading complex, high-value sourcing activities and developing effective negotiation strategies.
- Commercial, analytical and stakeholder-management skills, with the ability to influence across a global matrix organisation.
- Experience working in pharmaceuticals, biotechnology, healthcare, consumer goods or another relevant manufacturing environment.
- Evidence of being results-focused, quick to act and able to deliver in a demanding portfolio with limited need for day-to-day direction.
Skills
- Category Strategy
- Contract Management
- Data Analysis
- Digital Literacy
- Financial Acumen
- Interactive Storytelling
- Negotiation
- Sourcing Management
- Stakeholder Management
- Supplier Relationship Management
- External manufacturing procurement
- Large-molecule drug substance and drug product
- Biologics
- Vaccines
- Advanced therapies
- Antibody-drug conjugate manufacturing
- GMP manufacturing
- Quality systems
- Technology transfer
- Pharmaceutical product lifecycles
- New product introductions
- Manufacturing capacity decisions
- Supply-resilience initiatives
- Data, AI or digital tools
Location
- Multiple locations
Work Type
- Hybrid
Experience Level
- Senior Manager
- Experienced direct procurement professional
Education Level
- Degree in business, supply chain, engineering, life sciences, pharmaceutical sciences or a related discipline
- Advanced degree or relevant professional qualification (e.g., MBA, CIPS, CPSM)
Salary/Compensations
- PLN 246,000 to PLN 410,000
- EUR 83,250 to EUR 138,750
Benefits
- Annual bonus
- Eligibility to participate in share-based long-term incentive program
About the Company
- 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.
- 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.
Equal Opportunity
- 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.
- We believe in an agile working culture for all our roles. If flexibility is important to you, we encourage you to explore with our hiring team what the opportunities are.
- Should you require any adjustments to our process to assist you in demonstrating your strengths and capabilities contact us at UKRecruitment.Adjustments@gsk.com where you can also request a call.