Sr. Manager - API & Excipient Procurement

Welcome to Haleon. We’re a purpose-driven, world-class consumer company putting everyday health in the hands of millions. In just three years since our launch, we’ve grown, evolved and are now entering an exciting new chapter – one filled with bold ambitions and enormous opportunity.
Our trusted portfolio of brands – including Sensodyne®, Panadol®, Advil®, Voltaren®, Theraflu®, Otrivin®, and Centrum® – lead in resilient and growing categories. What sets us apart is our unique blend of deep human understanding and trusted science.
Now it’s time to fully realise the full potential of our business and our people. We do this through our Win as One strategy. It puts our purpose – to deliver better everyday health with humanity – at the heart of everything we do. It unites us, inspires us, and challenges us to be better every day, driven by our agile, performance-focused culture.

Are you energized by a procurement leadership role where you can drive efficiency and shape procurement objectives across the organization?  If so, this General Procurement Manager role could be an exciting opportunity to explore.

As a General Procurement Manager, you will be responsible for driving and leading the performance management of all key initiatives and projects in the Local Procurement area, across multiple categories of spend and cross functionally across the wider Haleon business, to ensure the delivery of key business objectives and benefits.

This role will provide YOU the opportunity to lead key activities to progress YOUR career, these responsibilities include some of the following…

•             Aid in the development of annual objectives and enablers for Global Procurement Organisation and cascade into aligned Procurement area as well as support bottom up target setting.
•             Define key metrics to measure performance against objectives and enablers in aligned Procurement area.
•             Identify, plan and execute key initiatives aligned with these Procurement and business strategic objectives to deliver set targets.
•             Ensure objectives are embedded in the aligned area Procurement Leadership Teams personal development plans and leverage when prioritization of focus is required.
•             Lead and implement a performance culture in aligned Procurement area’s activities across multiple spend categories working in partnership with Head of aligned Procurement area and Category Leads.
•             Develop catered Performance Management governance model to allow for regular and frequent updates on performance against all defined objectives.
•             Act as internal consultant to Head of aligned Procurement organisation and support cross-enterprise development of Business Unit/Regional participation.
•             Play the role of a challenger to common thinking and an advisor, providing a fresh perspective to proposed strategies.
•             Prepare the Procurement Head for all future meetings, at times building executive summaries in advance with Category Leads.
•             Provide communication leadership for the Chief Procurement Officer focusing on market or category level, content development and implementation.
 

We are looking for professionals with these required skills to achieve our goals:

• Bachelor’s degree

• Direct experience leading procurement for a specific supply category

• Project management experience

• Experience generating data insights for performance metrics

If you have the following characteristics, it would be a plus:

• MBA

• Experience managing multiple stakeholders

• Strong Influencing skills

• Executive communications experience

Our Win as One Framework is a simple, stretching definition of our future direction. It includes our purpose, ambitions, strategic drivers, and behaviours that will enable us to Win as One. This framework guides our decision-making, strategy, and culture. The successful candidate will demonstrate the following capabilities:

• Consumer first, always: Engage key business counterparts and operational stakeholders to deliver operational execution of Haleon strategies related to eCommerce activities, always putting the consumer first.

• Collaborate for impact: Establish and maintain relationships with critical groups to ensure customer knowledge is utilized to inform and deliver on the eCommerce roadmap, collaborating for impact.

• Unlock value, at pace: Drive business process improvement throughout the commercial and operational support teams, unlocking value at pace.

• Grow myself and others: Continuously look for opportunities to learn, build skills, and share learning, growing myself and others.

Code of Conduct as a Leader within Haleon , as a manager, you have an important responsibility to ensure that this Code is applied correctly and to promote an ethical culture.

• Be the role model that brings our Code to life, by always acting with the highest ethical standards.

• Ensure your team, especially new members, are familiar with our Code and the Ethics & Compliance contact, in your market.

• Maintain an environment of trust that allows all to Speak Up, reinforcing the guarantee of anonymity and non-retaliation.

• Listen to your team and promptly raise any compliance concerns you become aware of.

• Make any necessary corrective and preventive decisions, in a timely manner.

• Recognize those in your team who display ethical behavior; share examples of good ethical decision-making, so all understand how we expect them to act.

• Provide timely support into any company investigation of potential wrongdoing.

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Haleon are committed to mobilising our purpose in a way that represents the diverse consumers and communities who rely on our brands every day. It guides us in creating an inclusive culture, where different backgrounds and views are valued and respected – all in support of understanding and best serving the needs of our consumers and unleashing the full potential of our people. It’s important to us that Haleon is a place where all our employees feel they truly belong.
During the application process, we may ask you to share some personal information, which is entirely voluntary. This information ensures we meet certain regulatory and reporting obligations and supports the development, refinement, and execution of our inclusion and belonging programmes that are open to all Haleon employees. 
The personal information you provide will be kept confidential, used only for legitimate business purposes, and will never be used in making any employment decisions, including hiring decisions.

If you require a reasonable adjustment or accommodation or other assistance to apply for a job at Haleon at any stage of the application process, please let your recruiter know by providing them with a description of specific adjustments you are requesting. We’ll provide all reasonable adjustments to support you throughout the recruitment process and treat all information you provide us in confidence. 

The Haleon recruitment team will contact you using a Haleon email account (@haleon.com). If you are not sure whether the email you received is from Haleon, please get in touch.