Senior Manager, Procurement Hub Sourcing

Haleon, we are on an incredible journey as we prepare to create a new, standalone, world leading company with a 100% single-minded focus on everyday health. We are doing this at a time when the work we do has never mattered more. With the COVID pandemic, people are increasingly looking for ways to manage their own health and wellbeing and to take care of their families. This is where we come in. 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 are uniquely placed to deliver better everyday health to millions of people around the world and grow a strong, successful business. This is an opportunity to be part of something special.

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Senior Manager Procurement

In this role you will…

The Bangalore Hub provides the critical Source to Contract capability for HALEON. Leading the delivery of a high volume of sourcing projects globally, the centre acts as the operational engine of the procurement organisation. As such, the Bangalore Hub will play a critical role in delivering both the in-year savings and the functions long term operating model.

The Senior Manager, Procurement will be responsible for the delivery of the critical Source to Contract service for one or multiple regions across indirect categories such as Media, Marketing, Promotions, Merchandising, Professional Services, Direct Materials, Contract Manufacturing, Logistics & Distribution. 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 organisation. This service is a cornerstone of the future procurement operating model and will enable the function to industrialise its core operation; driving best practice, providing practical knowledge for development of best in class category strategies, consistency of execution, and continual improvement.

Responsibilities

• 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 HALEON’s Procurement policies, procedures, processes, systems and methodologies are utilized in a compliant manner in the area of responsibility.

Benefit 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 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.
• 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 locally, facilitated by robust implementation and transition plans. 
• Demonstrated success in collaboration with a wide range of senior leaders across [business areas] and supplier. 

• Resolve escalations, including from senior business stakeholders, timely and tactfully
• Understand and efficiently navigate organizational complexity to deliver set goals

Why you? 

Qualifications & Skills

• 10-15 years of total procurement experience.
• Experience managing categories like Media, Marketing, Promotions, Merchandising, Professional Services, Direct Materials, Contract Manufacturing, Logistics & Distribution.
• Managing global projects would be an added advantage.
• This role should have 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 utilising complex business processes in all HALEON supplier transactions, including all risk/regulatory/compliance

Strong experience in using tools like Ariba or other equivalent sourcing execution technology

Inclusion & Diversity at Consumer Healthcare:

Inclusion and diversity at HALEON are key for our success. Here, you will thrive through bringing your unique experiences to both our company and the recruitment process. We want you to be you, feel good and keep growing your career.

HALEON is an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer. Applicants will travel through a transparent recruitment journey that adheres to all required employment standards and regulations. Beyond this, we commit to our values of integrity and respect towards every applicant.

We want to hear from you and support with any adjustments that you may require during the recruitment process. Please get in touch with our Recruitment Team (contact email) to further discuss this today.

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