Site Procurement Manager
Pubblicato il 19-08-2026 - Gsk in Parma
**Site Name**: Italy - Parma
**Posted Date**: Aug 18 2025 **Job Description**: - We create a place where people can grow, be their best, be safe, and feel welcome, valued, and included. We offer a competitive salary, an annual premio based on company performance, healthcare and wellbeing programmes, pension plan membership, and shares and savings programme._
- We embrace modern work practises; our Performance with Choice programme offers a hybrid working model, empowering you to find the optimal balance between remote and in-office work._
- Discover more about our company wide benefits and life at GSK on our webpage _Life at GSK | GSK_ Today, there are millions of people without access to basic healthcare, thousands of diseases without adequate treatments and millions more people who suffer from everyday ailments. GSK wants to change this. We are a science-led healthcare company that researches, develops and manufactures healthcare products and we are committed to widening access to our products. We are on a mission to help people do more, feel better, live longer. With three world-leading businesses - pharmaceutical medicines, vaccines and consumer healthcare products - we invest in scientific research and discovery to take on some of the world's biggest healthcare challenges. The Global Procurement Site team is responsible for Procurement across all the GSK manufacturing Sites for Pharma, Vaccines and Consumer. The team covers Direct and Indirect spend, and focuses on the creation and execution of Procurement strategies by creating strong relationships with stakeholders at different levels within the Site. Procurement is accountable for establishing and nurturing value-focused relationships with third parties. The Procurement Manager - Site (SPM)
partners with the local Site team in order to drive and support across all the dimensions of Procurement delivery. At a strategic level, the SPM leads the alignment with the Site Leadership Team; ensures the Site business needs and priorities are well understood and supported from Global Category Procurement teams and contributes, directly or indirectly, to the strategic management of key suppliers. From a more tactical perspective, the SPM leads the local Procurement team in the operational management of activities, implementation of sourcing strategies and other global projects. They also ensure that the daily needs and transactional activities are executed in accordance with GSK’s policies and SOPs and that the communication provided to the local Procurement team and the stakeholder community is relevant and effective. The SPM is a delivery-orientated value creating partner. Someone who is well connected to the business and has the strong people relationships necessary to make things happen to create value. It’s someone that is so well connected that they find things out, they get to know things from various sources and then they put two and two together to make five. It’s someone who can connect the dots. Who can challenge collaboratively and lead others to deliver the value.
To drive needle-moving value creation the SPM doesn’t just need to be a great partner with each Category Procurement team and each Supplier but also need to connect across Sites, particularly those in the same value chain and geography, connect across Procurement, across the Supply Chain and across the business. **In this role YOU will** Business strategy: - Develop and propose long and short-term plans to improve Procurement processes in order to enhance the overall performance of the Site. Provide leadership in the implementation of new processes.
- Implement Global Procurement processes, policies, guidelines, strategies locally and ensure compliance.
- Managing interfaces between Procurement and the Site, balancing the expectations of both Procurement and Site stakeholders. Understanding different perspectives and satisfying the needs and expectations of all stakeholders, both within Procurement and the Site.
- Ensure the Site requirements are taking into account within the definition and implementation of Global Category strategies. Development and robust implementation of Procurement strategies for local categories of spend that clearly meet business requirements. Procurement Management: - Lead the Procurement function at Site (Directs, Manufacturing Indirects and Capex).
- Develop and manage the Site supply base to meet GSK’s requirements: assurance of supply, quality, regulatory, service, cost, and innovation to control costs in a fast-moving environment. Adapt and respond to regularly changing business requirements.
- Manage the development of a long-term vision for all local purchasing categories to support the growth of GSK. Ensure the approval of this long-term vision by local key stakeholders.
- For specific Categories, actively negotiate contracts.
- Reduce the Directs, Manufacturing Indirects and Capex costs of the site. Support the reduction of end-to-end total c