Director, R&D Procurement

Welcome to Haleon. Were a purpose-driven world-class consumer company putting everyday health in the hands of just three years since our launch weve 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 its 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 Director R&D Procurement - Global will have responsibility for our Global R&D spend (Pre-clinical Clinical Lab Outsourced Services) and reports into Global Directs & Innovation Procurement. The role interacts with senior stakeholders in R&D Supply Chain Commercial and Finance and directly covers 80m in spend. Additionally the role:

• Develops strategic end-to-end sourcing strategies for a defined portfolio
• Requires high cultural awareness
• Plans leads and oversees negotiations
• Builds and delivers a Procurement strategy across the portfolio and cross-BU
• Creates and implements Procurement initiatives/strategies which improve quality of service and supply innovation pipeline and produce significant cost savings across business units or supply networks
• Knows and utilises complex business processes in all Haleon supplier transactions including risk regulatory and compliance requirements
• Significant external supplier and market knowledge
• Leads manages and develops a team of procurement managers to facilitate delivery of the primary role purpose described above.

In this role you will

• Develop a comprehensive procurement strategy for R&D outsourced services and lab items that ensures high-quality services and protects Haleons competitive position
• Collaborate with key stakeholders to deploy strategies globally facilitated by robust implementation and transition plans
• Generate value across quality delivery cost and innovation contributing significantly to the organisations goals and objectives

Key Responsibilities

• Manage a spend of 80m by creating comprehensive global sourcing strategies operating with a truly global and strategic mindset
• Build strategic relationships with senior Haleon stakeholders to understand business requirements identify value opportunities and position Procurements value proposition
• Create compelling business cases for change and secure approval from senior stakeholders across Haleon Commercial Supply Chain and other relevant functions
• Lead contract planning negotiation execution and maintenance working with Legal to take agreements from draft to completion
• Deliver global benefits identified in strategies through effective strategy execution aligned to assurance of supply (risk management) compliance quality service cost simplification and innovation
• Engage stakeholders Finance and other relevant functions in the sourcing strategy delivery and execution
• Build senior-level supplier relationships and ensure business unit considerations are reflected in supplier management
• Lead and direct category & innovation teams within scope of responsibility
• Build the organisational capabilities needed to implement Haleons strategy now and in the future
• Ensure appropriate communication strategy is in place and in use within the relevant Procurement and business customer networks

Qualifications & Skills

Education

• Bachelors degree required; masters degree preferred
• Relevant background in Supply Chain Procurement Business or Science

Experience

• Significant procurement experience including leading teams
• Subject matter expertise in Clinical Studies sourcing and R&D outsourced services
• Strong understanding of relevant regulatory environments and supplier markets
• Proven ability to deliver multi-year strategies that create competitive commercial advantage
• Experience managing large projects and end-to-end service or operations delivery

Skills & Leadership

• Build trusted relationships with senior internal and external stakeholders
• Lead complex negotiations and manage contract planning execution interpretation and maintenance
• Apply strong project and change management skills to deliver outcomes at pace
• Use sourcing tools market insight and…