Senior Manager, OU Corporate Services EMEA

Responsibilities

• Strategy and execution
• Manage c. £80m across Corporate Services spend pools, including consulting, HR services, financial services, legal services and fleet, across OU EU and MEA categories.
• Develop comprehensive sourcing strategies for the categories in scope, operating with a global, strategic mindset and in close partnership with the category team.
• Ensure OU requirements are clearly built into category strategies.
• Act as the subject matter expert for the spend categories, particularly within the relevant OU.
• Ensure strategies are implemented holistically across the OU and remain true to their core principles.
• Benefit delivery
• Deliver the benefits identified in strategy through effective, collaborative execution with the OUs, aligned to assurance of supply, quality, service, cost and innovation.
• Ensure financial benefits are managed in line with the Procurement Plan and Savings Methodology, with clear operating unit and Finance alignment on value delivery and transparent treatment of benefits in the budgeting process.
• Business partnering & stakeholder management in Haleon
• Influence key OU stakeholders and business partners to shape strategy, secure endorsement, support execution and align how benefit delivery is reflected in budgets.
• External supplier relationships
• Build strategic relationships with key local suppliers and lead the processes that unlock value from those partnerships.
• Ensure both global and regional considerations are reflected in supplier relationship strategies.
• Lead contract planning, negotiation, execution, interpretation and maintenance with global suppliers to maximise value for Haleon.
• Develop and implement operational excellence strategies and plans for key suppliers to improve performance against KPIs.
• Supply chain & risk management
• Transform end-to-end spend to unlock value and make Haleon more responsive to business and customer needs through cost control, complexity reduction, simplification, best-practice procurement and KPI use.
• Ensure suppliers are effectively managed against third-party risk requirements.
• Develop and implement operational excellence strategies and plans for key global suppliers to improve performance against KPIs.
• Team management
• 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, including sourcing, quotation analysis, contract negotiation, supplier review and supplier development.
• Demonstrated expertise in category management, especially strategy development and implementation, stakeholder management and supplier relationship management.
• In-depth understanding of the external environment and supplier relationship models.
• Strong knowledge of finance, including cost benchmarking and financial audits with key suppliers, and legal matters relating to contracting.
• Clear understanding of business value, business priorities and implementat

Benefits

Additional Information

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, Corporate Services, OU Buying EMEA, within the Global Indirect Professional Services Procurement organisation, is responsible for all category management and sourcing activity across the Corporate Services category in the EMEA region. This role reports to the Director, Corporate Services. In this role you will... You will adapt and implement global category strategies across your spend area (EU and MEA), setting the strategic direction for sourcing within the relevant Operating Units. You will work closely with the category team to ensure global strategies reflect OU requirements while leveraging broader global opportunities.

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