Head of Engineering, Global Procurement

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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 position is part of the Materials, Manufacturing & Capex (MMC) Procurement leadership team reporting into the Chapter Lead of Materials, Manufacturing & Capex Procurement in Global Procurement.

The Engineering team  covers the core procurement activities from category management, sourcing, supplier management, content strategy definition, and execution for Roche’s CAPEX and Engineering addressable spend.

As the Head of Engineering Global Procurement, you will work in a dynamic global environment where you will meet the challenge to bring vision, guidance, prioritization, and focus on  team vision, capability development, and strategic Delivery prioritization (in line with functional objectives and business needs).

You are a collaborator and through partnership with internal procurement Heads and Leads you will align on needs, identify opportunities, define goals, and advance priorities. You influence decision-making and remove barriers to ensure the delivery of high-quality customer-oriented sourcing and spend management strategies. You are a senior leader in Global Procurement and the MMC Leadership Team - actively role modelling behaviours and shaping and driving our strategy.

You will lead and guide a large team of Procurement Managers, Senior Procurement Manager and Procurement Leads, working closely with them to develop the team vision, prioritize and focus efforts, and provide coaching and guidance to support your team’s development and growth both as individuals and as a team.

You are accountable for the delivery of the Team goals and for driving Global Procurement and business strategies within the CAPEX and Engineering spend area which can reach multiple billion CHF per year. You are responsible for the best allocation of your people to ensure flexibility, excellence in execution, delivery and performance, and talent development. You will partner with Senior Roche Stakeholders globally to ensure best cost, speed and to identify and drive new strategies that unlock significant value to our business and cost goals.

The Head of- Engineering Procurement will play a variety of roles according to your experience, knowledge, and the general business/team requirements, including, but not limited to, these core responsibilities:

• You utilise your in depth knowledge and expertise in Engineering and CAPEX to act as a Delivery domain lead providing thought leadership, advice, and know-how on delivery capability topics, strategies, and best practices, and shaping and defining the Engineering category vision and priorities.

• You are a Developer overseeing, improving and driving delivery of sourcing, category and supplier related strategies as well as coaching team members, including modeling agile behaviors and mindsets necessary for advancing the capability vision.

• You act an Accelerator and advocate providing guidance to align on and co-create enhancements and development of automated delivery offerings, enhancing business satisfaction and driving efficiencies.

• You work in close  collaboration with multiple procurement teams, and squads/project teams to ensure prioritization and focus on delivering or supporting large, complex, and/or high risk projects as well as foundational work.

• You are accountable for the performance of medium to large teams of Sr. Procurement Managers and Procurement Managers acting as a role model, demonstrating curiosity, passion, an entrepreneurial spirit, enterprise thinking, inclusive collaboration, and desire for continuous learning that underpin our culture and ways of working.

You hold a university degree, with a business or life science degree preferable. You have  12+ years procurement experience (strategic and operational procurement experience, including relevant experience related to the Engineering and CAPEX category), ideally in a matrix organization and / or in Pharma or related Industry. You have demonstrated success in building, cultivating and managing global large and senior teams.

• You have track record of successful delivery of large and complex CAPEX projects in a technical or a commercial role

• You have demonstrated experience in procurement end-to-end value chain. You act as a leader to shape and drive both Procurement and business strategies

• You have proven excellent leadership, communication, conflict resolution, and influencing. You have excellent engagement with Senior Stakeholders.

• You have deep knowledge and experience in the Engineering and CAPEX category and  strong knowledge  of other categories and a passion for Procurement.

• You seek out change that can unlock significant value in how we work with the market, our stakeholders or suppliers. Leveraging technology and market changes. You proactively adopt Global Procurement and Business Strategies to drive value in your area of responsibility.

• You are action oriented and can make decisions and influence others to do the same; you repurpose work and ideas in favor of starting from scratch.

• You demonstrate curiosity, active listening and a willingness to experiment and test new ideas when appropriate

• You work with colleagues across procurement, business and the wider Roche organization to broaden knowledge and expertise, better understand customer needs, and connect the dots.

• You are open-minded and inclusive, generously sharing ideas and knowledge, while being receptive to ideas and feedback from others.

• You have fluency in English to Business level. Fluency in German to Business level as well is strongly preferred

When you apply as an external candidate from outside of Roche, please upload a resume/CV in English and a cover letter in one step.

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