Supplier Resilience & Controls Lead
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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. We are seeking a Global Lead - Supplier Resilience & Controls to design and embed a best-in-class supplier resilience framework across the organisation. This role provides global leadership and first-line oversight to ensure critical supplier dependencies are identified, prioritised, and managed to reduce operational, financial, reputational, and regulatory risk. The role sets the strategy and operating model for supplier resilience across direct and indirect spend, including n-tier visibility, sustainability considerations, and evolving regulatory requirements. The successful candidate will bring deep procurement and supplier risk expertise, strong governance and framework design capability, and experience influencing senior stakeholders in complex global environments. Role scope Framework Design & Ownership Design, own, and enhance the global Supplier Resilience & Controls Framework. Define and implement global supplier tiering and risk segmentation across direct and indirect categories. Set resilience risk thresholds aligned to enterprise risk appetite. Define pre- and post-contract resilience requirements across the supplier lifecycle. Align with enterprise risk, compliance, ESG, and sustainability frameworks. Design the supplier resilience operating model, including ownership, decision rights, hand-offs, and escalation paths. Embed resilience into procurement, contracting, SRM, and TPRM standards. N-Tier Transparency & Risk Assessment Build a scalable approach to n-tier visibility, risk mapping, and dependency analysis. Use n-tier insights to identify hidden dependencies, vulnerabilities, and concentration risks. Incorporate human rights, forced labour, ESG, sustainability, concentration, and single-point-of-failure risks into n-tier assessments. Turn n-tier insights into supplier tiering, controls, diversification, and contingency plans. Improve visibility beyond tier 1 suppliers in line with regulatory and enterprise risk priorities. Evaluate and implement tools and data sources for ongoing n-tier monitoring and early warning. Control Execution & Operational Enablement Embed the Supplier Resilience Framework and n-tier insights into scalable BAU supplier processes. Operationalise resilience controls across the supplier lifecycle, including: Pre-contract: due diligence and resilience and n-tier risk assessments Contractual: standard clauses, SLAs, and contingency and recovery requirements Post-contract: monitoring, reassessment, and validation of resilience measures Integrate resilience controls and n-tier data into procurement, TPRM, risk, and data tools. Governance & Oversight Establish and lead supplier resilience governance forums and working groups. Define escalation paths for high-risk suppliers, major incidents, and supply chain vulnerabilities. Provide oversight and challenge to procurement, risk, and business stakeholders. Align with enterprise risk governance, crisis management, and business continuity. Reporting & Insights Own reporting, dashboards, and insights on critical suppliers, resilience exposure, concentration risks, n-tier visibility, and disruption trends. Deliver clear insights to senior leadership to inform decisions and category strategy. Define metrics to track framework effectiveness, control maturity, and improvement. Stakeholder Engagement Partner with Category Management, Quality, Supply Chain & Operations, Risk & Compliance, Sustainability / ESG, and Legal. Influence senior stakeholders to embed resilience practices in their operating models. Act as a recognised subject matter expert in supplier resilience. Support training and awareness to build resilience capability across procurement and business teams. Key deliverables Own and improve the Supplier Resilience & Controls Framework. Provide first-line oversight and challenge to ensure consistent application of resilience requirements. Govern changes to resilience frameworks, methodologies, tiering logic, and controls. Lead change management for resilience processes, standards, guidance, and training. Lead resili