Senior Manager, Global Creative & Production

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.

The Senior Manager, Global Marketing, Creative & Production part of the Global Indirect Procurement organization, will be responsible for all category management and sourcing activities for the Creative & Production category globally. This role will report to the Director, Content & Production.

In this role you will… … be responsible for the development and implementation of global category strategies within your area of spend, which will form the strategic foundation and direction of all regional category strategies and BU strategies. As such, this role will need to work closely with the BU teams to ensure the global strategy accounts for regional and local market requirements while leveraging the global view and opportunities.

• Manage a spend of [£20m+] for Global Marketing, Creative & Production categories
• Create comprehensive global sourcing strategies for category in scope of responsibility, operating with a truly global and strategic mindset and in close collaboration with the BUs
• Have a clear understanding of how global and regional strategies affect local markets and how global and regional strategies align
• Build an education & communication process for regional and BU procurement leads
• Be the global expert in the spend categories
• Ensure global strategies reflect Haleon’s sustainability and diversity objectives

• Deliver benefits identified in strategies through effective and collaborative strategy execution with the BUs, 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

• Influence key global and regional stakeholders and business partners to support strategy development, endorse recommended strategies, support execution and agree how benefit delivery will be budgeted

• Build strategic relationships with key global suppliers and lead processes to ensure value is driven from these relationships.
• Ensure global and regional considerations are accounted for in supplier relationships
• 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 global suppliers that will allow Haleon to maximize opportunity
• Develop and Implement Operational excellence strategies and plans for key global 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

Minimum Level of

Education Required:

Bachelor’s Degree

Preferred Level of

Education:

Master’s Degree

Area of Specialisation:
Procurement, Business, Finance, Supply Chain, Marketing

• 5+ years of operational Procurement experience across multiple…