Senior Manager, Direct Contract, Market Insights, Should Cost Models

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.

About Role

The Senior Manager, Direct Contract, Market Insights, Should Cost models, part of the Global Direct Materials Procurement organization, will be responsible for shaping sourcing strategies through deep market intelligence, advances cost modelling & contracting insights. You will act as a key enabler for value creation, risk mitigation and data-driven decision making across global procurement activities.

In this role you will…

… Develop and lead should cost models to drive fact-based negotiations and identify cost optimization opportunities. You will provide market insights on key raw materials, packaging components and supply markets by anticipating market trends, risks and disruptions proactively advising internal stakeholders.

Role Responsibilities

• Build, maintain and continously improve should-cost models incorporating raw materials, energy, labour, conversion costs, logistics..)

• Conduct maket analysys including- demand dynamics, price forecasting and benchmarking.

• Lead cost breakdown analysis to challenge supplier pricing and identify negotiation levers.

• Identify supply chain risk example: inflation, geopolitical factors, capacity constraints and create scenrio-based planning supporting Haleon buisness modeling.

• Develop tools, dashboards and frameworks to scale insights across regions and categories

• Establish best practise and governance for cost modeling and market intelligence.

• Own and drive Directs Contracts Governance across Global Directs & Capital pilar, ensuring complaince and full visibility of the contracts by maintaining up-to-date view of contracts coverage within repository and systamatic follow ups on contracts performance.

• Identify and mitigate risks related to contract gaps or expirations.

• Playing a key role within Global Contract Aproval forum – safeguarding presented cotract have all necesarry inputs to make an appropriate decision on it’s approval.

Benefit delivery

• Drive cost breakdown analysys to support sourcing teams in their negotiations with external partners to drice tangible cost benefits.

• Support contract structuring with fact-based pricing mechanisms and indexation models to rpvide best cost optimisation for Haleon.

Business partnering & stakeholder management in Haleon

• Partnering with Global Category Teams and Ous responsible for Raw Materials, packaging and CAPEX following finance partners.

• External suppliers and market intelligence providers.

• Senior stakeholders across organization to influence decision making.

Supply chain & risk management

• Transform the supply chain to release value and make Haleon more responsive to business and customer needs

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Equal Opportunities

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.

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Note to candidates

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.

Consumer healthcare company spun off from GSK, making brands like Sensodyne, Advil, and Centrum. Based in Weybridge, UK.

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