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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.
The Delivery capability covers the core procurement activities from category management, strategic and operational sourcing, supplier management, content strategy definition, and execution. The Delivery capability comprises many communities grouping categories of the same value chain or having commonality. The communities are critical 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 Direct Operations Procurement team reporting into the Procurement Delivery Head Direct Operations.
As a Team Lead Global Procurement Delivery Direct Operations Europe, 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 are focused on bringing a broader scale global focus to the day to day operations within the team.
Thanks to your leadership, and people focus, you will drive collaboration with internal procurement and functional management to contribute and implement a best-in-class procurement delivery capability in your area. You will focus on coordinating and allocating work assignments and ensuring balanced team utilization and consistent application of procurement methodologies. You will also contribute to continuous improvement projects and support the team by removing impediments and blockers to executing category sourcing strategies.
Leading a team of procurement delivery specialists and experts, you will work with them to best allocate activities and align with other team managers to optimize overall resource utilization while ensuring alignment between team member competencies and development needs with work assignments.
Your successful performance and contribution depend on the full embodiment and demonstration of core mindsets and behaviors, including an entrepreneurial spirit, enterprise thinking, inclusive collaboration, and desire for continuous learning that underpin our culture and ways of working.
As a Team Lead Global Procurement Delivery Direct Operations Europe, you will play a variety of roles according to your experience, knowledge, and the general business/team requirements, such as:
Delivery domain expert providing leadership, advice, and know-how on delivery capability topics, strategies, and best practices, and shaping and defining the capability area priorities.
Procurement delivery practitioner managing and coaching a team of Procurement Delivery Managers and providing opportunities for professional development through leveraging category management, sourcing, negotiation, contracting, supplier management, and project management skills to deliver on objectives.
Operational effectiveness champion ensuring resource expertise and capacity, and utilization, with a focus on driving enhancements and the development of automated delivery offerings.
You will work within the broader team, GP networks, and squads to determine the various roles needed to deliver projects or support others in project and foundational work delivery.
You hold a university degree, with a business degree preferable. You have 7+ years of experience in global category and procurement management, strategic sourcing, complex procurement contracting, and operational category efficiency projects.
In addition, you have:
Very strong people management and people development experience with strong communication, change management and influential skills
Extensive sourcing, procurement and/or vendor management experience, and ideally specific category knowledge in the Direct procurement Pharma environment and end-to-end procurement and supply chain processes.
Executive presence and comfortable with interacting with both internal stakeholder and external vendor senior leadership.
Demonstrated project management skills.
Business level fluency in English
You strive to act as an enterprise thinker and leverage knowledge and expertise to create solutions for business customers by proactively fostering collaboration, including across the procurement network.
You are action-oriented and can make decisions and influence others to do the same; you repurpose work and ideas in favor of starting from scratch.
You demonstrate curiosity, active listening, and a willingness to experiment and test new ideas when appropriate, focusing on continuous learning and improvement.
You work with colleagues across procurement, business, and the broader Roche organization to broaden knowledge and expertise, better understand customer needs, and connect the dots.
You are open-minded and inclusive, generously sharing ideas and knowledge while being receptive to ideas and feedback from others.
When you apply as an external candidate from outside of Roche, please upload a resume/CV in English and a cover letter in one step.
Are you ready to apply? We are looking for someone who thinks beyond the job offered - someone who knows that this position can be a rare springboard to many other opportunities at Roche. When applying for this position, already project yourself in the future. Think about what could come next and how you wish to build your future.
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