Role Title: Director of Staffing Services
Duration: End of June 2025 (9 months)
Location: Central London (1 day per week in office required)
Rate: £712.92 per day via Umbrella
Role purpose / summary
As the Director, Staffing Services –Staffing Services you will be responsible for implementing global category strategies to optimize business efficiency across all our talent acquisition & recruitment services. To be able to fulfil your duties, you will work closely with our local procurement & HR partners to understand our GSK global needs and identify opportunities to increase quality & improve value for money.
Whilst performing your category management activities you will focus on identifying innovative & disruptive procurement solutions that provide cashable savings, process efficiencies and support GSK strategic workforce planning. You will also aim to drive sustainable value for GSK from key supplier relationships, aligned with our Global Diversity and Inclusion aspirations.
Additionally, the role will be accountable for delivering a range of initiatives/processes in partnership with our Complementary workforce & HR operation teams and broader partners. Strategically, you will be required to drive a culture of continuous improvement to both processes and services and ensure ongoing organizational alignment to support our GSK ambition.
Key Responsibilities
This role will provide YOU the opportunity to lead key activities to progress YOUR career. These responsibilities include some of the following:
- Be the global procurement Business Partner and align with Senior Global Stakeholders to determine value generation across HR & Staffing Services which includes complementary workforce & permanent recruitment categories and Translations.
- Manage the end-to-end process to challenge the sourcing approach and scope of the business requirements. Challenge and drive continuous improvements to support GSK's drive of being ambitious for patients
- Develop next generation category strategies, bringing leading market practice to develop disruptive added value to GSK and collaborate where there are synergies with other global procurement categories such as Professional Services & Technology.
- Execute global sourcing strategies across multiple spend categories in scope of responsibility, operating with a truly global mindset and ensuring all applicable markets and regional requirements are accommodated.
- Have a clear understanding of how global strategies impact local markets and build an education & communication process for our Procurement leads and business units
- Be a global expert in the spend categories within scope of responsibility
- Facilitate implementation of procurement change initiatives within categories to improve business performance.
- Accountable for the direct management and savings target achievement for managed sub-categories
- Execute and manage effective contracts with suppliers that will allow GSK to maximize global opportunities. Ensure global views on supplier negotiations are taken.
- Manage global supply base for the categories within scope through a robust performance management process. Ensure supplier performance is understood and measured.
Key Skills/ requirements
Why you?
Basic Qualifications:
We are looking for professionals with these required skills to achieve our goals:
- Qualified to Degree level, ideally within Procurement and Supply Chain, and/or further academic qualifications, for example MBA, CIPS, MCIPS, CCWP
- Category experience within Staffing Services/Talent Acquisition/Recruitment Services and HR Services
- Line management experience with the ability to support team member grow in their GSK journey
- Ability to articulate the business case for Supplier Diversity and translate it into action in discrete situations
- Understanding of Procure-to-Pay and Spend Analysis systems; ability to dive into data and co-create, understand, and trouble-shoot reporting requirements
- Procurement experience including the ability to support multiple categories
- Track record of working with senior stakeholders and the ability to influence, this includes the ability to build strong relationships and to influence aligned to our GSK values
- Experience managing suppliers (including performance management), developing new potential suppliers and partnering with supply base for mutual benefit
Preferred Qualifications:
If you have the following characteristics, it would be a plus:
- Ability to articulate the value that procurement can bring to an organisation
- Excellent leadership capability to manage people and processes
- Innovative thinking to drive changes and process improvements
- Able to demonstrate significant cost savings
- Matrix management and global management skills
- Ability to work in a complex and multi-cultural environment
- Excellent business acumen, analytical, and financial skills