Description
Site Liaison Manager (Procurement) - Irvine - £500 - £550 Per Day - 6 Months
Main Skills Required:
- Procurement
- Experience of working on a manufacturing site
- CANDIDATE WILL BE WORKING WITH PENICILLIN
- Excellent communication skills.
Job Purpose:
Production Procurement supports the commercial ambitions of GSK by providing procurement services to GMS for production materials and site indirect. The key mechanisms for this delivery are the sourcing and selection of suppliers, supplier relationship management, and risk mitigation.
The Site Liaison Manager (SLM) is responsible for partnering with the site to ensure its priorities and business requirements are understood, and for delivering a high level of customer service and support.
Skills Required:
Serve as the ambassador for Production Procurement and the main Procurement point of contact for the site
Deliver excellent customer service - Resolve Procurement-owned supply issues and communicate root cause and corrective actions to site in a timely manner
Represent Procurement to the site leadership team - provide regular update on procurement strategies developed by Commodity teams and conduct regular performance management to deliver PP targets (- Cost & cash inc.SBO, working capital, Risk, Quality)
Ownership and management of site RiskPacks and ownership of supply risks identified on the Site Risk Management system
Interface Procurement:
Communicate Site business requirements to commodity managers and ensure sourcing strategies include those
Align Production Procurement activities with site priorities
Develop monthly site LE and review financials with SLT; Track Actuals & address discrepancies
Lead and coordinate procurement strategy events and procurement COGS reviews at site
Responsibilities:
Handle 2nd touch escalation at site - 1st touch to be handled by relvant site's reps, and commodity managers to be involved in 3rd touch
Member of local TPO Trio providing Procurement advise to business owners
Understand the main issues faced by sites, and assess how Prourement can help to Remedy to those
Risk/Quality: work closely with Commodity managers to develop robust mitigation startegies to maange risk and quality (targeted intervention with vendors to reduce conditionnally approved vendors, repetitive complaints etc)at sites. Ensure site riskmaps are maintained in accomdrance with procedure
Stakeholder Management:
The SLM will be the voice of PP at site, and the voice of site within PP
Manage and influence key business and procurement stakeholders
Provide regular update to site's LT around Procurement organization eg changes to category responsibility, major Procurement initiatives etc.
Communicate regularly key site information (eg, site strategies & priorities, budgets, financial targets) to commodity teams
Support site finance with annual budgeting and standard setting processes
Provide Commodity Teams with supplier performance at sites
Share with Site LT main supplier strategies and update on Supplier Relationship Management for key vendors
Support key supplier relationship management
Identify and implement net and gross savings opportunities and conduct robust monthly performance management with site/Procurement stakeholders to deliver Cost & cash, Ris, Quality - including working capital, Supplier base optimization (align Procurement activities to site's TIP process to ensure sites resources are secured)
Input in to Project Investment Proposals, as required
Assist site with material costs for new products (contract manufacturing, product transfers & product line extensions); Work with commodity teams to establish supply chains
Advise site staff on relevant procurement policies, ways of working and responsibilities. Conduct training, on procurement policies, as required
Support Lead SLM in sharing and implementing best practice across the SLM community
Support data accuracy within site systems
High degree of complexity coordinating support from multiple commodity teams and working within a Matrix organization
Managing relationships with other Procurement staff remotely
Any interruption of supply results in immediate and extended impact on GSK revenue stream
Understanding different perspectives and satisfying the needs and expectations of all stakeholders, both within Production Procurement and the site
Managing interfaces between Procurement and the site
Balancing the expectations of both Procurement and site stakeholders
Adapting and responding to regularly changing business requirements
Balancing both strategic and operational requirements
Act as a role model leader supporting GSK values and behaviours including visible support to site strategy
Additional information about the process
Deadline for CVs will be Tuesday 31st.
CVs must be submitted within the first instance.
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