Procurement - Strategy Enablement Programme Director

Introduction to role:

Join us as a Strategy Enablement Programme Director and play a vital role in the success of our Global Procurement function. This role requires vision, energy, procurement expertise, and a proven track record of significantly improving ways of working within complex environments. You will work closely with the Head of Strategy Enablement to define and drive a programme of high profile functional initiatives, directly enabling the delivery of Procurement’s strategy. This position will have a limited tenure ending in December 2025 (fixed-term contract).

Accountabilities:

As a Strategy Enablement Programme Director, you will determine and drive a programme of high profile, targeted initiatives that will accelerate the delivery of Procurement’s 222 strategy. Your programme of work will include implementing Global Procurement’s new Preferred Supplier List (PSL) Strategy, overseeing the improvement of Global Procurement’s Supplier Relationship Management (SRM) activities and Performance Management processes, and defining and driving other key projects as they arise to further accelerate delivery of Procurement’s 222 strategy.

Essential Skills/Experience:

• Significant Procurement and/or supply chain experience

• Proven track record of delivering projects in a global environment

• Experience in change management and people management skills

• Excellent communication skills and ability to influence others

• Strong business acumen and ability to think strategically

• Ability to challenge the ‘status quo’ and embedded ways of working to drive positive and sustainable change

• Ability to manage conflicting priorities, stakeholder & colleague expectations and deliver consistently high-quality outputs

• Significant experience of managing different stakeholder relationships and confident at forging trusted relationships at all levels

• Experience of working in an highly regulated sector

Desirable:

• Sound judgment combined with strong interpersonal and influencing skills

• Strategic thinker looking outside to bring new approaches to continually reinvigorate outputs and improve the effectiveness of approaches

• Proactive with high levels of self-motivation and personal accountability

• Comfortable working independently and as part of a team

• Resilient with a flexible approach

• Able to develop and maintain networks across business and cultural boundaries

When we put unexpected teams in the same room, we unleash bold thinking with the power to inspire life-changing medicines. In-person working gives us the platform we need to connect, work at pace and challenge perceptions. That's why we work, on average, a minimum of three days per week from the office. But that doesn't mean we're not flexible. We balance the expectation of being in the office while respecting individual flexibility. Join us in our unique and ambitious world.

At AstraZeneca, we're an international team that celebrates diversity of experience, skills and ways of working. We aspire to achieve our objectives by fusing the need to deliver sustainable growth, lead supplier collaboration, protect the planet and achieve business agility. We work across all areas of the business, owning our role as custodian and protector of AstraZeneca's cost and the value we deliver. We're one global procurement team with collaboration and patient centricity at our heart. Uniting different functions in the business, we problem-solve together to maximise outcomes. Always evolving and moving forward, we are transforming Procurement. Backed by investment, we're making the shift from operational work to a more dynamic combination of strategy and execution.

Ready to embrace change to deliver greater value? Apply now to join us on this exciting journey as our global organisation evolves and grows. This is your chance to play a part in transforming lives.