Senior Manager, Procurement – Canada
City : Toronto
Category : Autre
Industry : Healthcare
Employer : GSK
Nom du site: Mississauga Milverton Drive
Date de publication: Apr 9 2026
Date de publication: Apr 9 2026
GSK remains committed to achieving bold commercial ambitions for the future. By 2031, we aim to deliver £40 billion in annual sales, leveraging our existing strong performance momentum to significantly increase our positive impact on the health of billions of patients globally. Our Ahead Together strategy is centered on early intervention to prevent and alter the course of disease, thereby protecting people and supporting healthcare systems.
Our diverse portfolio consists of vaccines, specialty medicines, and general medicines. Through continuous innovation and a dedicated focus on scientific and technical excellence, we strive to develop and launch new, groundbreaking treatments that address critical health challenges.
Are you energized by the challenge of accelerating a procurement organization at a biopharma company that is ambitious for patients, accountable for impact and committed to doing the right thing? If so, this Senior Manager, Procurement role is an exciting opportunity to make a meaningful impact.
Position Summary
As a Senior Manager, Procurement, you will be accountable for supporting the Canadian business across the full procurement lifecycle, from stakeholder engagement and sourcing to contracting and supplier management. This role plays a critical part in enabling business outcomes while ensuring compliance, value delivery, and effective third-party risk management.
Responsibilities
This role will provide YOU the opportunity to lead key activities to progress YOUR career. These responsibilities include some of the following:
Strategy execution
Represent the best interests of the Canadian market by aligning closely with Regional and Global category teams. Act as the local subject matter expert, providing market insights and business requirements to support effective regional and global strategy development and execution.
Execute global and local sourcing strategies across multiple spend categories within scope, including Professional Services, Technology, Digital, Marketing, Media, Market Research, and Data, operating with a global mindset while ensuring all relevant local and regional considerations are addressed.
Understand commercial standards and ensure category alignment for third-party processes and services.
Support the business in understanding and complying with GSK Procurement policies, ensuring users are appropriately trained and supported. Serve as the local expert on third party oversight and risk management frameworks to protect GSK in supplier interactions and contracting activities.
Benefit Delivery
Ensure financial benefits are managed in accordance with the Global spend management framework, including alignment with Finance and business stakeholders on value delivery and transparency in budget treatment.
Deliver Procurement targets against agreed budgets (Plans of Purchase) in collaboration with key stakeholders and Finance ensuring alignment with the global and regional budgets.
Identify and deliver value aligned to assurance of supply, quality, service, cost, and innovation through effective execution of category strategies.
Drive operational efficiencies by ensuring compliance with contract and preferred supplier lists, while actively managing tail spend.
Business Partnering
Build and maintain strong, strategic relationships with local GSK stakeholders to understand business needs, identify value-creation opportunities, and clearly articulate Procurement’s value proposition.
Influence stakeholders and business partners to support strategy development, endorse recommended sourcing approaches, enable execution, and align on how benefit realization and budgeting.
Ensure third party contracts are proactively managed ahead of expiration to support business continuity and long -term value.
Define and negotiate commercial terms and manage the contracting process, partnering closely with Legal to meet business requirements.
External Supplier Relationships
Execute and manage effective supplier contracts that enable GSK to maximize value both locally and globally, ensuring global perspectives are incorporated into supplier negotiations.
Ensure all contracts are valid, compliant, and accurately maintained within GSK’s contract management systems.
Manage the local supply base for in-scope categories through robust supplier relationship and performance management processes, ensuring supplier performance is measured and understood.
Establish effective processes and communication links between country-level supplier organizations and local, regional, and global networks, cascading information across suppliers and GSK stakeholders.
Supply chain and risk management
Support the transformation of supply chain to unlock value and increase responsiveness to business and customer needs, including cost control, complexity reduction, simplification, and adoption of best-practice procurement approaches and KPIs.
Identify, assess, and manage significant supply chain and third-party risks, ensuring appropriate mitigation plans are developed, implemented, and clearly communicated to impacted business units.
Why You?
Basic Qualifications
We are seeking professionals with the following required skills and qualifications to help us achieve our goals
- Bachelor’s degree.
- 5+ years of experience in indirect procurement supporting commercial spend areas, such as Professional Services, Technology, Digital, Marketing, Media, Market Research, and Data.
- Experience across core procurement processes, particularly third-party contracting, stakeholder management, and supplier relationship management.
- Demonstrated experience across procurement processes, including: strategy development and execution, third party contracting, stakeholder management, business partnering, and Supplier Relationship Management (SRM).
- Proven contract drafting and negotiation experience, including agreements such as Master Service Agreements (MSA), Software as a Service Agreements (SaaS), Statements of Work (SOW), and related third-party contracts.
- Experience leading competitive sourcing activities, including end-to-end execution of RFx processes (RFP, RFQ, RFI)
Preferred Qualifications
If you have the following characteristics, it would be a plus
Experience in Pharma/Biotech or another highly regulated environment.
Comfort working with ambiguity or limited information.
Proven negotiation and project management experience.
Strong proficiency in Microsoft tools and SAP Ariba modules.
Working arrangement
This role is Canada-based and will be offered as a hybrid model. You will be expected to work from our Mississauga office 2-3 days a week.
What we value in you
You are pragmatic, collaborative and delivery focused. You bring clear commercial judgement and the confidence to engage internal and external partners. You care about doing the right thing and welcome learning and development. You will help create inclusive working relationships where different perspectives are heard and respected.
Ready to apply?
If this role matches your experience and ambition, we would love to hear from you. Please submit your CV and a brief note explaining how your skills will add value to procurement at GSK in Canada.
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In compliance with Ontario's provincial pay transparency legislation, this job posting includes a salary range to support equitable and informed hiring practices. The annual compensation for this role is CAD110,000 to CAD160,000 , determined based on experience, qualifications, and internal equity. GSK is dedicated to promoting transparency and fairness throughout our recruitment process.Salary ranges for other locations are shown because some markets have pay transparency laws that require salary information on job postings, and those locations are potential job sites for this role. If salary ranges are not displayed in the job posting for a specific location or country, the relevant compensation will be discussed during the recruitment process.Pourquoi GSK?
Allier science, technologie et talent pour vaincre ensemble la maladie.
GSK est une entreprise biopharmaceutique mondiale dont la mission est de réunir la science, la technologie et le talent pour prendre ensemble de l'avance sur les maladies. Nous visons à avoir un impact positif sur la santé de 2,5 milliards de personnes d'ici la fin de la décennie, en tant qu'entreprise prospère et en croissance où les gens peuvent s'épanouir. Nous prenons de l'avance sur les maladies en les prévenant et en les traitant grâce à l'innovation dans les médicaments spécialisés et les vaccins. Nous nous concentrons sur quatre domaines thérapeutiques : les maladies respiratoires, l'immunologie et l'inflammation; l'oncologie; le VIH; les maladies infectieuses – pour avoir un impact à grande échelle sur la santé.
Les gens et les patients partout dans le monde comptent sur les médicaments et les vaccins que nous produisons; c'est pourquoi nous nous engageons à créer un environnement où nos employés peuvent s'épanouir et se concentrer sur ce qui compte le plus. Notre culture, qui repose sur l'ambition pour les patients, la responsabilité de la portée et le fait de faire ce qui est juste, constitue la base de la manière dont nous tenons nos engagements ensemble pour les patients, les actionnaires et nos employés.
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