Senior Manager, OU Corporate Services APAC

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.

Hello. We’re Haleon. A new world-leading consumer health company. Shaped by all who join us. Together, we’re improving everyday health for billions of people. By growing and innovating our global portfolio of category-leading brands – including Sensodyne, Panadol, Advil, Voltaren, Theraflu, Otrivin, and Centrum – through a unique combination of deep human understanding and trusted science. What’s more, we’re achieving it in a company that we’re in control of. In an environment that we’re co-creating. And a culture that’s uniquely ours. Care to join us. It isn’t a question.

With category leading brands such as Sensodyne, Voltaren and Centrum, built on trusted science and human understanding, and combined with our passion, knowledge and expertise, we’re uniquely placed to do this and to grow a strong, successful business.

This is an exciting time to join us and help shape the future. It’s an opportunity to be part of something special.

Role Overview

The Senior Manager, Corporate Services, OU Buying APAC part of the Global Indirect Procurement organization, will be responsible for all category management and sourcing activities for the Corporate Services category within APAC region. This role will report to the Director, Corporate Services.

In this role you will…

… be responsible for the adaptation and implementation of global category strategies within your area of spend (i.e. APAC), which will form the strategic foundation and direction of all spend sourcing strategy in the respective Operating Units. As such, this role will need to work closely with the category team to ensure the global strategy accounts for OU requirements while leveraging the global view and opportunities.  

Key Responsibilities

Strategy and execution

• Manage a spend of ~£25m, Corporate Services spend pools (consulting, HR services, financial services, legal services, fleet etc), in OU APAC
• Create comprehensive sourcing strategies for category in scope of responsibility, operating with a truly global and strategic mindset and in close collaboration with the category team
• Have a clear understanding of how OU requirements are built into the strategies
• Be the expert in the spend categories especially for the respective OU
• Ensure strategies are implemented holisitically and true to its principles in the OU

Benefit delivery

• Deliver benefits identified in strategies through effective and collaborative strategy execution with the OUs, 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 operating unit and Finance agreement to financial value delivered and transparency on treatment of benefits in the budgeting process

Business partnering & stakeholder management in Haleon

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

External supplier relationships

• Build strategic relationships with key suppliers locally and lead processes to ensure value is driven from these relationships.
• Ensure global and regional considerations are accounted for in supplier relationships
• 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 suppliers to drive improvements against KPIs.

Supply chain & risk management

• Transform the end to end spend 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
• Ensure suppliers are managed against their third party risks effectively

• Develop and Implement Operational excellence strategies and plans for key global suppliers to drive improvements against KPIs.

Team management

• Manage a team (~2 people) managing the corporate services orucing execution across APAC OU
• Drive continuous improvements, ensuring Global Procurement can deliver maximum value to the business. 

• Manage the team capability and motivation, ensuring synergies and seamless collaboration happens across all levels. 

Please take a copy of the Job Description, as this will not be available post closure of the advert.

When applying for this role, please use the ‘cover letter’ of the online application or your CV to describe how you meet the competencies for this role, as outlined in the job requirements above. The information that you have provided in your cover letter and CV will be used to assess your application.

Qualifications & Skills: 

Minimum Level of Education Required: Bachelor’s Degree

Preferred Level of Education: Master’s Degree

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

• 10+ years of operational Procurement experience across multiple categories
• Excellent knowledge of Procurement tools such as sourcing, quotation analysis, contract negotiation, supplier review, supplier development and others
• Demonstrated expertise in managing categories, particularly category strategy development and implementation, stakeholder management and supplier relationship management
• In-depth understanding of external environment and supplier relationship models
• Strong knowledge of finance (cost benchmark, financial audit with key suppliers) and legal matters (contracting)
• Clear understanding of business value, business priorities, and potential implementation risks
• Significant experience working in a matrix (global/ regional) business environment
• Strong networking skills and a proven ability to build productive and collaborative relationships with senior stakeholders and business partners
• Demonstrated leadership and ability to work in partnership with others to drive, implement and support change
• Ability to prioritize multiple tasks across multiple projects using project management skills
• Strong analytical, written and verbal communications, and influencing skills
• Ability to work in high pressure environment, often under tight deadlines
• Experience with risk management
• Motivation for professional development and willingness to coach, mentor and train others

Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

At Haleon we embrace our diverse workforce by creating an inclusive environment that celebrates our unique perspectives, generates curiosity to create unmatched understanding of each other, and promotes fair and equitable outcomes for everyone.

We’re striving to create a climate where we celebrate our diversity in all forms by treating each other with respect, listening to different viewpoints, supporting our communities, and creating a workplace where your authentic self belongs and thrives.

We believe in an agile working culture for all our roles. If flexibility is important to you, we encourage you to explore with our hiring team what the opportunities are.

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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.

Adjustment or Accommodations Request

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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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