Job Purpose
The Procurement Buying Goods & Services team has single accountability for the global Strategy, Design, Governance and Improvement roadmap of the end-to-end BG&S; processes and operations. The process impacts 400+ Procurement employees, 15,000 shoppers and 38,000 suppliers across Sourcing, Supplier Relationship Management, Master Data, Requisition, Purchase Order, Invoice and Payment processes. The Buying Goods & Services Transformation programme has pointed out that for a positive employee experience, it is critical to define the adequate strategy and manage the buying channel content as per specificities of the region. Once buying content and employee shopping experience is fluid, it will increase the compliance for the requesters, suppliers, procurement & operations.

Key Responsibilities




• Implement the buying channel vision to enable ‘shoppable content’ in the Ariba Guided Buying module by partnering with Procurement category managers and business stakeholders to design and implement best-in-class buying and payment channel strategies across all areas of spend in the region.
• Responsible for optimization and activation of buying channels per category, ensuring governance and decision authority on buying channel strategies and Guided Buying tile design meets GSK’s business needs and priorities.
• Optimize internal or third party solutions available to procurement and requisitioners (e.g. catalogs, marketplaces, tail spend management solutions). Establishing and monitoring KPIs and regular governance to ensure buying channels are optimized, to identify opportunities to increase procurement value and/or simplify the requisitioning experience for stakeholders.
• Soliciting the Voice of the Customer (utilising Communities of Practice where available) and operating a continuous improvement cycle for the buying channel management (i.e., monitor, improve, monitor, adjust) to enable the employee experience journey.
• Driving change and adoption within the shoppe

📌 Associate Director (Bengaluru)
🏢 GSK
📍 Bengaluru