Procurement Capability Lead Sourcing

Overview

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The Position

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 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…