Senior Manager, OU Buying Marketing North America

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.

part of the Global Marketing Procurement & Category organization and will be responsible for all category management and sourcing activities for advertising & promotion and sales sub-categories within the specified region.

In this role you will have the unique opportunity to drive category excellence within the region through the development and implementation of regional category strategies, in partnership with global category teams. This role will partner closely with the business to represent the needs of local stakeholders and local market dynamics to drive value for Haleon.

• Manage a spend of [£20m+] for A&P (Marketing & Media) categories within regional scope North America
• Create effective regional/ local sourcing strategies aligned to local business requirements and market nuances, while collaborating with global category leads to implement global best practices in region
• Execute sourcing strategies for spend categories in scope of responsibility, including leading tendering activities, contracting, and supplier management
• Be the local expert in the spend categories within scope of responsibility
• Ensure regional strategies reflect Haleon’s sustainability and diversity objectives

• Deliver benefits to the BU identified in both local and global strategies through effective and collaborative strategy execution, aligned to assurance of supply (risk management), quality, service, cost and innovation
• Ensure financial benefits are managed in accordance with the Procurement Plan and Savings Methodology approach, ensuring business unit and Finance agreement to financial value delivered and transparency on treatment of benefits in the budgeting process

• Build strategic relationship with a network of senior Haleon local/regional 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

• Build strategic relationships with key regional/local suppliers and lead processes to ensure value is driven from these relationships.
• Influence category teams to ensure regional considerations are considered in global & regional supplier relationships, 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.
• Lead all contract planning, negotiation, execution, interpretation and maintenance with regional/ local 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.

• Transform the supply chain to release value and make Haleon more responsive to business and customer needs – for example in cost control, complexity reduction, simplification, best practice procurement and use of KPIs.

• Bachelor’s Degree in…