Strategic Procurement Partner

About the role

Roche is looking for a Strategic Procurement Partner to join its Finance Chapter in South Africa. The role acts as a key commercial partner, aligning local business goals with sustainable sourcing solutions, building strong supplier relationships and helping unlock capacity to invest in treatments and improve patient lives.

Key responsibilities

• Partner with internal teams to turn their goals into actionable procurement strategies and lead strategic sourcing across events and creative agencies, fleet and travel, IT, supply chain, patient support programs and utilities.
• Analyse market dynamics and spend patterns to match business needs with capable external partners, and lead commercial negotiations to secure favourable terms and cost efficiencies.
• Advise Squad Leads, Chapter Leads and decision-makers, and work with Africa Regional and Global Procurement networks to adopt global best practices.
• Work with Legal, Healthcare Compliance, Quality and Finance to safeguard the organisation and follow policy.
• Oversee the full procurement lifecycle from vendor onboarding to contract closure, manage the Purchase Order process and procurement system in line with Global Standards, and review and approve POs against authorisation thresholds.
• Custody vendor master data and onboarding due diligence, and guide business teams on contract compliance, Service Provider Management and Outsourcing SOPs.

Required profile

• Bachelor's degree in Business, Commerce, Finance, Economics or a related field; an MBA or relevant postgraduate qualification is an advantage.
• Minimum of 5 to 7 years of hands-on experience in an end-to-end procurement role.
• Proven experience in Category Management, Strategic Sourcing, Supplier Relationship Management and Business Partnering.
• Demonstrated experience integrating B-BBEE imperatives, supplier diversity and ESG principles into supplier qualification and selection.
• Ability to lead multi-stakeholder projects and manage change in matrix organisations.

Required skills

• Hands-on proficiency with digital procurement platforms (e-sourcing suites, P2P systems) and use of spend data.
• Strong analytical skills to evaluate total cost of ownership and structure commercial terms.