Director Procurement APAC - CMO

Director Procurement APAC - CMO

Hello. We’re Haleon. A new world-leading consumer health company. Saped 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.

With category leading brands such as Sensodyne, Voltaren and Centrum, built on trusted science and human understanding, and combined with our passion, knowledge and expertise, we’re uniquely placed to do this and to grow a strong, successful business.

This is an exciting time to join us and help shape the future. It’s an opportunity to be part of something special.

Role Overview

Director Procurement APAC - CMO has an annual spend accountability of up to ~£300m (including raw materials, packaging).

This role is responsible for leadership of the Procurement CMO teams in APAC region for manufacturing-related categories of spend.

Director Procurement APAC - CMO will partner with global directs procurement team & other cross functional stakeholders like QSC/Sites and Value engineering, Sustainability team to drive the strategy. The role will focus on productivity delivery using multiple sourcing levers, with increased focus on Materials, Network, Value Engineering and complexity reduction.    

The geographic scope of the role is APAC with an organisation of ~8 resources and procurement accountability for ~40 CMO sites.  

This is a high impact, high complexity role with significant scope that spans across multiple categories, suppliers and cross-functional collaboration for impact.

In this role you will…

• Drive the creation, execution and management of comprehensive sourcing strategies for spend categories, in a matrix approach with Global Categories in order to best meet the needs of the business units in region.
• Collaborate and align with QSC and BU teams, other Procurement leaders,  and teams within the region and/or globally to understand and adopt best practices
• Strategically engage with and understand the business requirements of stakeholders and business partners and to position the Procurement value proposition, on local, regional and global levels.
• Ensure Haleon Procurement policies, procedures, processes, systems and methodologies are utilized in a compliant manner in the area of responsibility
• Accountable for creating and implementing Procurement strategies and initiatives which improve quality and service/ supply risk and deliver significant cost savings across business units and supply networks.
• Accountable for ensuring contract compliance and coverage.
• Accountable for ensuring ideation with the QSC, BU and other functions focusing on: value creation projects (innovation, savings, quality, service/ supply risk). Accountable for involving CMO’s and material suppliers in this as appropriate.
• Lead, manage and develop a team of professional sourcing staff, located in multiple countries, to ensure effective performance of in the scope of responsibility
  • Direct reports, indirect reports, matrix reports
  • Developing capability of staff, technical, leadership and behavioural
  • Leading improvements in team performance

Key Responsibilities

People leadership

• Lead and direct a CMO Procurement team across multiple countries within a region
• Develop and implement effective ways of working across the region, global and Category team to ensure a cohesive approach
• Develop the team and individual capabilities from both technical and behavioural aspects
• Act and Role Model leadership qualities in keeping with Haleon values
• Build high-performing teams, championing those that drive both the ‘WHAT’ and the ‘HOW’ linking high-performance to Haleon performance management criteria
• Create a truly inclusive culture and diverse teams

Business partnering & stakeholder management in Haleon

• Build strategic relationship with a network of senior Haleon regional/functional/site stakeholders, to understand business requirements, identify opportunities to create value and to position Procurement’s value proposition.
• Influence key stakeholders and business partners to support strategy development endorse recommend strategies, support execution and agree how benefit delivery will be budgeted

Strategy execution

• Align with global category team and work in collaboration with these them to provide local business requirements and market information to support effective collaborative regional and global strategy creation and execution
• Execute sourcing strategies for spend categories in scope of responsibility aligned with the requirements of stakeholders and business partners
• 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

Benefit delivery

• Support category lead in the creation and delivery of effective regional savings targets agreed with key stakeholders and Finance in accordance with the agreed Savings Methodology
• Deliver benefit 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.

External supplier relationships

• Build strategic relationships with Contract Manufacturers at senior level and lead processes to ensure value is driven from these relationships. Ensure local considerations are accounted global & regional supplier relationships.
• Ensure regional considerations are taken into account in global supplier material negotiations and contracts
• Manage the supply base for the categories within scope through a robust performance management process. Ensure supplier performance is understood and measured.
• Negotiate, create, execute and manage effective regional/local contracts with suppliers that will allow Haleon to maximize opportunity.
• Develop and Implement Operational excellence strategies and plans for key regional/local suppliers to drive improvements against KPIs.

Supply chain & risk management

• Transform the supply chain to release value and make Haleon more responsive to business and customer needs in close collaboration with Global a category teams – for example in cost control, complexity reduction, simplification, best practise procurement and KPI’s.
• Identify and manage significant risks in the regional/local supply chain. Ensure appropriate mitigation plans are in place and in use and that the risks are communicated appropriately within business units impacted, Procurement and the supply base

Qualifications & Skills: 

• Preferred Level of Education: Master’s Degree
• Area of Specialization: Procurement/Contract Manufaturing/ Supply Chain/ Engineering/ Science/ Business/ Finance
• Why is it required?: The role holder is expected to create/ unlock P&L value through deep understanding of the respective value chains of each material and service; to do this well and to the expected degree, it requires considerable advanced technical and financial knowledge and understanding.

Minimum Level of Job-Related Experience Required:

• Significant (10+ years) professional Procurement experience in a comparable large, complex company preferably FMCG company, Contract Manufacturing Procurement experience and proven successes.
• Past experience of Raw, Packaging material procurement (either or both)
• Significant team management and senior stakeholder management experience
• Experience of handling large and complex supplier partnerships
• Significant leadership experience (preferably at Director/Senior manager level)
• Strong capability to execute; this is core to the role
• Strategy development and implementation; strong value creation capability
• Strong stakeholder management and strategic influencing skills
• Strong capability to drive accountability
• Strong business and financial acumen
• Strong technical expertise
• Demonstrated decision making capability
• Demonstrated relationship management skills
• Demonstrated programme management capability
• Understanding of legal/ compliance/ regulatory frameworks
• Strong external orientation
• Contracting experience required, including a thorough understanding of contracting fundamentals and experience with contract planning, negotiation, execution, interpretation and maintenance

Why is this level of experience required?

• The role holder is expected to be able to influence senior leaders effectively.
• The role holder is expected to be able to deliver significant transformation and change.
• The role holder is expected to be able to develop and deliver Procurement strategies that are aligned with the business’s requirements. 
• The role holder is expected to lead Local and some Regional spends Procurement, including planning, leading and overseeing negotiations.
• The role holder is expected to deliver strong financial results, in particular: significant materials cost savings and cost avoidance and inventory reduction. 
• The role holder is expected to manage significant projects.
• The role holder is expected to have significant external supplier and market knowledge.
• The role holder is expected to be able to benchmark externally to identify new opportunities and ensure competitive performance and is expected to be able to identify best practices externally and implement them in HALEON.
• The role holder is expected to manage Procurement through complex legal, compliance and regulatory frameworks.

Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

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.

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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.
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