Procurement Enablement - Procurement Capability Lead - Category Management

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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.

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.

This position is part of the Materials, Manufacturing and Capex (MMC) Procurement Delivery leadership team reporting into the Chapter Lead of Materials, Manufacturing and Capex Procurement Delivery. However, the scope of the role is to be applied to all of Global Procurement with a focus on both Delivery Chapters (Indirects and MMC).

As a Capability Lead
- Supplier Relationship Management (SRM), you will work in a dynamic global environment where you will bring analytical thinking, planning, relationship shaping, execution, and focus to how Global Procurement segments and manages its most impactful supplier relationship and drives value, compliance, risk and innovation from them.

You will be responsible for the end-to-end management and strategic direction of Supplier Relationship Management within Global Procurement, drive alignment with the overarching Procurement strategy, digital initiatives, and customer satisfaction, and ensure consistent application of procurement methodologies. You will utilise your leadership expertise and your specialized knowledge and in-depth expertise to contribute and implement a best-in-class procurement delivery capability in your area.

You will apply a data driven approach to measure progress against this plan and ensure champion adoption.

You will collaborate with internal procurement (such as both Delivery Chapters, Business Partnering, Business and Digital Solutions, Analytics, Contracting, Learning and Development, etc.) functional management and business stakeholders to build and implement the capability ensuring balanced team resource utilisation, consistent application of procurement methodologies and contribution to continuous improvement projects.

• You are a subject matter expert in global SRM, evaluating requests and business needs to develop and execute global SRM process and best practices in alignment with the Procurement strategy, digital initiatives and stakeholder / business needs
• You will own the end-to-end process for the SRM Capability area, from strategic conception to end-user adoption, ensuring seamless integration and a consistent approach to Category Management and Strategic Sourcing within Global Procurement
• You will lead a set of 'SRM Champions and Leads' from other teams to embed and adopt the framework. You will develop the next set of key SRM strategic leaders
• You will coach SRM leads for the largest relationships and role model by owning and driving one of our…