Procurement Partnering Lead IT

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This role sits within the Global Procurement Businerss Partnering chapter which is focused on enabling greater stakeholder centricity in GP by gathering and sharing business insights and feedback, promoting procurement solutions and services and simplifying partnering with procurement for the business.

As the Procurement Partnering Lead RDT, you will work in a dynamic global environment where you will meet the challenge to bring vision, guidance, prioritization, and focus on stakeholder engagement and satisfaction. Thanks to your deep ambassadorial and partnering skills you will nurture the relationship with key and senior internal Roche business stakeholders to become a strategic partner and advisor, able to influence decision making and/or remove barriers relating to procurement services and solutions. Based on your specialized and in-depth knowledge about your business stakeholder’s strategy, priorities and needs, you proactively identify and anticipate business needs and opportunities (push and pull opportunities) to increase overall procurement value delivery to internal Roche business stakeholders. You will work closely with relevant capabilities of all chapters in procurement, to develop a targeted procurement business strategy that prioritizes and focuses efforts to drive value back to the business function and achieve overall targets and performance metrics.

You 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 act as a business function expert using a deep understanding of business strategies and objectives to provide business-related insights and opportunities to the procurement organization to enable and develop effective and desirable procurement offerings targeted at the applicable business area.
• You are a strategy developer and value driver of business-targeted procurement strategies, with accountability for creating and maintaining a holistic, long-term, and targeted plan to support the applicable business function’s success, including prioritization of business support requirements and proactively proposing and, where feasible, securing buy-in / sponsorship (at business senior management level) for applicable procurement services and solutions that deliver on the applicable business area’s value objectives like savings and other business area-targeted metrics.

• You are a Procurement ambassador and business partner, acting as the primary point of contact for specific senior stakeholders (upper management) focused on representing and leveraging the procurement networks to deliver for and optimize stakeholder experiences and outcomes, including identifying procurement opportunities, promoting solutions, and advocating for compliance (i.e., with policies, tools, processes) and adoption.
• You will work with your team, the broader Global Procurement organization, networks, and squads/project teams to ensure prioritization and focus on delivering or supporting both project and foundational work.
• Your successful performance and contribution depend on the full embodiment and demonstration of core mindsets and behaviors, including curiosity, passion, an entrepreneurial spirit, enterprise thinking, inclusive collaboration, and desire for continuous learning that underpin our culture and ways of working.

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