Procurement Manager, Commercial

## Procurement Manager, Commercial Apply locations:
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July 18, 2026 (22 days left to apply) job requisition :
At Roche you can show up as yourself, embraced for the unique qualities you bring. Our culture encourages personal expression, open dialogue, and genuine connections,  where you are valued, accepted and respected for who you are, allowing you to thrive both personally and professionally. This is how we aim to prevent, stop and cure diseases and ensure everyone has access to healthcare today and for generations to come.

Join Roche, where every voice matters.### ### The Position
** About the job
** A healthier future. It’s what 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.
** The Opportunity
** This role sits within the Indirect Procurement Delivery group, which covers the core procurement activities from category management, strategic and operational sourcing, supplier management, contracting, content strategy definition, and execution. The Indirect Procurement Delivery group comprises many communities grouping categories of the same value chain or having commonality, including Research & Development, Commercial and Corporate Services, Digital & Technology, and Facilities.

The communities are key enablers of strong category expertise while allowing flexibility in the procurement delivery response to the evolving needs of our customers.

As a Procurement Manager in Commercial, you will bring analytical thinking, planning, execution, and focus to the procurement sourcing and delivery capability area. Using your specialized knowledge and in-depth expertise in a specific category or spend areas and procurement overall, you will proactively identify and drive strategies and approaches for managing and sourcing third party spend requirements. You can also play the role of Category strategy owner in charge of driving, coordinating and signing the category strategy.

As a Procurement Manager in Commercial, you will play a variety of roles according to your experience, knowledge, and general business requirements, including but not limited to:
* You are a Category and sourcing subject matter specialist in Marketing & Sales (Creative and Digital, Medical and Scientific Activities, Market Access and Sales) conducting market and internal analysis to develop strategies and tactical plans for how Roche should source and negotiate for third party goods and services in order to satisfy stakeholder requirements.
* You are a Procurement delivery practitioner delivering and executing sourcing strategies by leveraging spend, category know-how, robust sourcing, negotiation, contracting, supplier management methodologies and frameworks and project management skills.
* You develop content and automation, translating sourcing outcomes and opportunities into content and automated buying channels that improve business adoption, satisfaction, and overall efficiency.
** Who you are:
*** You hold a university degree, preferably in business or a related discipline.
* You have solid procurement experience in strategic sourcing, category strategy building and strategic project execution with general contracting understanding and proficiency or relevant commodity experience.
* Proficiency in procurement systems, processes, and general contracting.
* You possess knowledge and experience in the Strategic Procurement , while specific expertise in Marketing & Sales commodity area.
* You are a proactive, curious,…