Manager, Procurement Hub Sourcing

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.   

Manager, Procurement Hub Sourcing

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.

Basic Qualifications:

4+ years of relevant experience

Bachelor’s Degree.

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.

More than 2 years of experience in project management and business operations.

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.

Languages: English B2 + German or Spanish/Italian B2

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

The future of everyday health is changing. And we’re the people changing it. In front of us is an incredible opportunity to go beyond what any of us have done before. And make everyday health more achievable, more inclusive and more sustainable. For more and more people. So join us, as we build one of the world’s leading consumer healthcare companies. Join us to innovate our category-leading brands. To better understand people’s everyday health needs. To tackle the biggest barriers that stand in their way. To change individual and societal behavior. Join us to work with colleagues who share your restless energy. To explore your interests. To stretch yourself to do the best work of your career. And join us, as together we build a working experience that encourages us all to lead 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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