Manager, Procurement Hub Sourcing

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Hello. We're Haleon. A new world-leading consumer health company. Shaped by all who join us. Together, we're improving everyday health for billions of people. By growing and innovating our global portfolio of category-leading brands – including Sensodyne, Panadol, Advil, Voltaren, Theraflu, Otrivin, and Centrum – through a unique combination of deep human understanding and trusted science. What's more, we're achieving it in a company that we're in control of. In an environment that we're co-creating. And a culture that's uniquely ours. Care to join us. It isn't a question.

As the Cross BU Procurement Manager, you will lead external supplier relationships, negotiating favorable terms and managing long-term contracts. Your focus includes identifying new vendors, tracking service levels, and ensuring alignment with business goals. Taking charge of strategic category management, you'll collaborate with stakeholders to deliver value in line with Haleon and Procurement objectives.

You will be responsible for the delivery of the critical Sourcing and Category management activities for one or multiple BUs across indirect categories such as Marketing. Warehousing and Distribution or Professional Services. This role will collaborate with the procurement category and local market teams (LOC) to deliver sourcing, negotiation, contract execution, and supplier lifecycle management services to the global procurement organization.

This service is a cornerstone of the future procurement operating model and will enable the function to industrialize its core operation; driving best practice, providing practical knowledge for development of best in class category strategies, consistency of execution, and continual improvement.

Key responsibilities:

Strategy execution

• Execute sourcing strategies for spend categories in scope of responsibility aligned with the requirements of stakeholders and business partners with cooperation with Global Categories team.
• Deliver benefits identified in strategies, local, regional and global, through effective and collaborative strategy execution, aligned to assurance of supply (risk management), quality, service, cost and innovation.
• To ensure Haledon's Procurement policies, procedures, processes, systems and methodologies are utilized in a compliant manner in the area of responsibility.

Value delivery

• Support category leads in the creation and delivery of effective savings targets agreed with key stakeholders and Finance in accordance with the agreed Savings Methodology.
• Deliver values identified in strategies, local, regional and global, through effective and collaborative strategy execution, aligned to assurance of supply (risk management), quality, service, cost and innovation.
• Deliver savings and other set KPIs critical to global procurement plans as aligned with key stakeholders and Finance in accordance with the Savings Methodology and global budgets.

Business partnering & stakeholder management in Haleon

• Collaborate with key stakeholders to deploy strategies globally/regionally, facilitated by robust implementation and transition plans.
• Demonstrated success in collaboration with a wide range of senior leaders across business areas and suppliers.
• Resolve escalations, including from senior business stakeholders, timely and tactfully.
• Understand and efficiently navigate organizational complexity to deliver set goals.

Why you?

Basic Qualifications:

• 3+ years of relevant experience
• Strong demonstrated procurement expertise in commercial and contract negotiations, strategic sourcing, Indirect category management, cost model synthesis and supplier relationship management for delivering multi-country, high spend complex engagements.
• Demonstrated experience in navigating through organizational complexity, collaborating simultaneously with multiple teams, influencing without authority, handling escalations and associated business impact.
• Demonstrated experience in understanding and utilizing complex business processes in all Haledon's supplier transactions, including all risk/regulatory/compliance
• Strong experience in using tools like Ariba or other equivalent sourcing execution technology
• Proven experience leveraging procurement analytics/data outputs to generate reports.
• Excellent communications skills in English

Preferred Qualifications:

• Advanced Degree in Business Management, Mathematics, or Business Operations
• Ability to multi-task across various requests daily nd work independently
• Ability to engage senior leadership with limited direction
• Operating at pace and agile decision-making – using evidence and applying judgement to balance pace, rigour and risk.
• Committed to delivering high quality results, overcoming challenges, focusing on what matters, execution.
• Continuously looking for opportunities to learn, build skills and share learning.
• Sustaining energy and well-being.
• Building strong relationships and collaboration, honest and open conversations.
• Budgeting and cost-consciousness.
• Additional Languages : German or Spanish/Italian B2 will be an asset

Opportunities for growth

None of us should ever feel like we are standing still. Instead, we want Haleon to be a place where we feel like we are always progressing.

Improving everyday health takes dedication. Energy. Effort. So we look to reward your contribution with a benefits package that includes:

• A competitive base salary
• Contract of employment
• Annual bonuses that reflect Haleon's and individual performance
• Life insurance and pension plan
• Private medical package with additional preventive healthcare services for employees and their eligible
• Sports cards (Multisport)
• Health and wellbeing programmes that take care of you physically and mentally
• Pension plan membership and savings programmes
• Possibilities of development within the role and company's structure
• Recognition programmes that reward incredible contributions
• our philosophy to hybrid work

Why Join Us?

The future of everyday health is changing. And we're thepeople changing it. In front of us is an incredibleopportunity to go beyond what any of us have donebefore. And make everyday health more achievable,more inclusive and more sustainable. For more and morepeople. Sojoin us, as we build one of the world's leadingconsumer healthcare companies. Join us to innovate ourcategory-leading brands. To better understand people'severyday health needs. To tackle the biggest barriersthat stand in their way. To change individual and societalbehavior. Join us to work with colleagues who share your restlessenergy. To explore your interests. To stretch yourself todo the best work of your career. And join us, as togetherwe build a working experience that encourages us all tolead happier, healthier, more productive lives. The way we see it, every day is an opportunity for better.And we're going all in to realize it.

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At Haleon we embrace our diverse workforce by creating an inclusive environment that celebrates our unique perspectives, generates curiosity to create unmatched understanding of each other, and promotes fair and equitable outcomes for everyone. We're striving to create a climate where we celebrate our diversity in all forms by treating each other with respect, listening to different viewpoints, supporting our communities, and creating a workplace where your authentic self belongs and thrives. We believe in an agile working culture for all our roles. If flexibility is important to you, we encourage you to explore with our hiring team what the opportunities are.

As you apply, we will ask you to share some personal information, which is entirely voluntary. We want to have an opportunity to consider a diverse pool of qualified candidates and this information will assist us in meeting that objective and in understanding how well we are doing against our inclusion and diversity ambitions. We would really appreciate it if you could take a few moments to complete it. Rest assured, Hiring Managers do not have access to this information and we will treat your information confidentially.

Haleon is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive equal consideration for employment without regard to race, color, national origin, religion, sex, pregnancy, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, age, disability, genetic information, military service, covered/protected veteran status or any other federal, state or local protected class.

Please note that if you are a US Licensed Healthcare Professional or Healthcare Professional as defined by the laws of the state issuing your license, Haleon may be required to capture and report expenses Haleon incurs, on your behalf, in the event you are afforded an interview for employment. This capture of applicable transfers of value is necessary to ensure Haleon's compliance to all federal and state US Transparency requirements.

Hello. We're Haleon. A new world-leading consumer healthcare company. Shaped by all of us. Together, we're improving everyday health for millions of people. By growing and innovating our global portfolio of category-leading brands – including Sensodyne, Panadol, Advil, Voltaren, Theraflu, Otrivin, and Centrum – through a unique combination of deep human understanding and trusted science. What's more, we're achieving it in a company that we're building together. In an environment that we're co-creating. And a culture that's uniquely ours. Care to join us. It isn't a question.