Senior Procurement Partnering Manager

About the role

This role sits within the Business Partnering group, which enables greater customer centricity by gathering and sharing business insights, promoting procurement solutions and simplifying partnering with procurement. As the Senior Procurement Partnering Manager, you will be the primary contact for your business customer, bridging Product Development (late-stage R&D and Clinical Development) with procurement, regardless of spend category, and work in a dynamic global environment.

Key responsibilities

• Act as the primary contact for your customer, providing simple, seamless access to procurement and collaborating with internal procurement, transactional and operations teams to align on needs and service improvements.
• Work as a Product Development subject matter expert, project or workstream lead to develop strategies, measure and track performance, and identify synergies across Roche.
• Provide business insights and opportunities to the procurement organization, including tactical teams, to maintain and improve the end-to-end procurement experience and create value for the customer.
• Develop and drive operational and tactical business plans, including prioritization and customer sponsorship of procurement services tailored to customer needs.
• Promote procurement solutions, advocate for customer compliance with policies, tools and processes, and simplify the customer experience.
• Collaborate with your team, capability area, networks and project squads to deliver project and foundational work.

Required profile

• University degree in Business, Life Sciences or a related discipline.
• 7+ years of experience in multi-category procurement, key account management or customer management leadership within complex, matrix organizations.
• Demonstrated background or familiarity with late-stage R&D or Clinical Development environments.
• Proven track record of building collaborative senior stakeholder relationships and managing complex projects and workstreams.
• Strong enterprise mindset, action-oriented decision-making, inclusive communication and business-fluent English.

The role requires a proactive, collaborative strategic partner who thrives in a matrix environment and is passionate about optimizing procurement to advance clinical development. Relocation benefits are not available for this posting.