Job Description

Hello. Were Haleon. A new world-leading consumer health company. Shaped by all who join us. Together, were 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. Whats more, were achieving it in a company that were in control of. In an environment that were co-creating. And a culture thats uniquely ours. Care to join us. It isnt 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, were 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. Its an opportunity to be part of something special.Role OverviewThe Director, Procurement Business Partner - Southeast Asia & Taiwan (SEAT), will be part of the Cross-BU Procurement (China, NA, SEAT, ANZ, ISC) organization, and is the business partner to the SEAT BU and will also have responsibility for all Indirect, R&D & Innovation categories within Wider Asia BUs covering ~\xc2\xa3250M in spend.This is a high impact, high complexity role with significant scope that spans across multiple categories and suppliers.In this role you will

• Lead Procurement across multiple BUs
• Drive the creation, execution and management of comprehensive sourcing strategies for spend categories, in a matrix approach with Global Categories in order to best meet the needs of the business units in region.
• Collaborate and align with other Procurement leaders and teams within the region and/or globally to understand and adopt best practises
• Strategically engage with and understand the business requirements of stakeholders and business partners and to position the Procurement value proposition, on local, regional and global levels.
• Identify and deliver business benefits aligned to assurance of supply, quality, service, cost and innovation and delivering stakeholders and business partner requirements through execution of category strategies
• Ensure Haleon Procurement policies, procedures, processes, systems and methodologies are utilized in a compliant manner in the area of responsibility
• Drive operational efficiencies by ensuring Contract & Preferred Supplier list compliance as well as managing the Tail spend
• Lead, manage and develop a team of professional sourcing staff, located in multiple countries, to ensure effective performance of in the scope of responsibility

• Direct reports, indirect reports, matrix reports
• Developing capability of staff, technical, leadership and behavioural
• Leading improvements in team performance

Key ResponsibilitiesPeople leadership

• Lead and direct a Procurement team across multiple countries within a region
• Develop and implement effective ways of working across the region, BUs and Category team to ensure a cohesive approach
• Ensure appropriate communication strategy across BUs and Category teams is in place and in use
• Develop the team and individual capabilities from both technical and behavioural aspects
• Act and Role Model leadership qualities in keeping with Haleon values
• Build high-performing teams, championing those that drive both the WHAT and the HOW linking high-performance to Haleon performance management criteria
• Create a truly inclusive culture and diverse teams

Business partnering & stakeholder management in Haleon

• Build strategic relationship with a network of senior Haleon local/regional stakeholders, to understand business requirements, identify opportunities to create value and to position Procurements value proposition.
• Influence key stakeholders and business partners to support strategy development endorse recommend strategies, support execution and agree how benefit delivery will be budgeted

Strategy execution

• Align with appropriate category teams and work in collaboration with these teams to provide local business requirements and market information to support effective collaborative regional and global strategy creation and execution
• Execute sourcing strategies for spend categories in scope of responsibility aligned with the requirements of stakeholders and business partners
• Deliver benefits identified in strategies, local, regional and global, through effective and collaborative strategy execution, aligned to assurance of supply (risk management), quality, service, cost and innovation

Benefit delivery

• Support category lead in the creation and delivery of effective regional savings targets agreed with key stakeholders and Finance in accordance with the agreed Savings Methodology
• Deliver benefit identified in strategies, local, regional and global, through effective and collaborative strategy execution, aligned to assurance of supply (risk management), quality, service, cost and innovation.

Drive operational efficiency

• Ownership of tail management within the in-scope country and challenge it appropriately to ensure no category spend is left outside category scope
• Challenge requirements and educate stakeholder to drive maximum contract and PSL compliance

External supplier relationships

• Build strategic relationships with key regional/local suppliers at a senior level and lead processes to ensure value is driven from these relationships. Ensure local considerations are accounted global & regional supplier relationships.
• Influence category teams to ensure regional considerations are taken into account in global & regional supplier negotiations and contracts
• Manage the supply base for the categories within scope through a robust performance management process. Ensure supplier performance is understood and measured.
• Negotiate, create, execute and manage effective regional/local contracts with suppliers that will allow Haleon to maximize opportunity.
• Develop and Implement Operational excellence strategies and plans for key regional/local suppliers to drive improvements against KPIs.

Supply chain & risk management

• Transform the supply chain to release value and make Haleon more responsive to business and customer needs in close collaboration with Global and Regional category teams - for example in cost control, complexity reduction, simplification, best practise procurement and KPIs.
• Identify and manage significant risks in the regional/local supply chain. Ensure appropriate mitigation plans are in place and in use and that the risks are communicated appropriately within business units impacted, Procurement and the supply base

Qualifications & Skills:Minimum Level of Education Required: Bachelors DegreePreferred Level of Education Required: Masters DegreeArea of Specialization: Procurement/ Business/ Marketing/ FinanceMinimum Level of Job-Related Experience Required:

• Significant (10+ years) professional Procurement experience in a comparable large, complex company
• Significant leadership experience (5+ years at Director level or above)
• Demonstrated experience of successfully leading and managing teams across multiple countries
• Demonstrated expertise in Procurement processes is required, particularly with respect to developing & implementing significant strategies, stakeholder management and supplier relationship management
• Demonstrated experience in influencing strategy and managing across multiple geographies (across countries within a region) and business units
• Demonstrated significant experience in managing projects across geographies with consideration of diverse LOC needs (Understanding of legal/ compliance/ regulatory frameworks)
• Strong capability to drive accountability
• Strong business and financial acumen
• Strong technical expertise
• Demonstrated decision making capability
• Demonstrated relationship management skills
• Demonstrated programme management capability
• Strong external orientation
• Contracting experience required, including a thorough understanding of contracting fundamentals and experience with contract planning, negotiation, execution, interpretation and maintenance

Why is this level of experience required?

• The role holder is expected to be able to influence senior leaders effectively.
• The role holder is expected to be able to deliver significant transformation and change.
• The role holder is expected to be able to develop and deliver Procurement strategies that are aligned with the businesss requirements.
• The role holder is expected to lead Local and some Regional spends Procurement, including planning, leading and overseeing negotiations.
• The role holder is expected to deliver strong financial results, in particular: significant materials cost savings and cost avoidance and inventory reduction.
• The role holder is expected to manage significant projects.
• The role holder is expected to have significant external supplier and market knowledge.
• The role holder is expected to be able to benchmark externally to identify new opportunities and ensure competitive performance and is expected to be able to identify best practices externally and implement them in Haleon.
• The role holder is expected to manage Procurement through complex legal, compliance and regulatory frameworks.

Care to join us. Find out what life at Haleon is really like www.haleon.com/careers/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.As you apply, we will ask you to share some personal information, which is entirely voluntary. We want to have an opportunity to consider a diverse pool of qualified candidates and this information will assist us in meeting that objective and in understanding how well we are doing against our inclusion and diversity ambitions. We would really appreciate it if you could take a few moments to complete it. Rest assured, Hiring Managers do not have access to this information and we will treat your information confidentially.Haleon is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive equal consideration for employment without regard to race, color, national origin, religion, sex, pregnancy, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, age, disability, genetic information, military service, covered/protected veteran status or any other federal, state or local protected class.Please note that if you are a US Licensed Healthcare Professional or Healthcare Professional as defined by the laws of the state issuing your license, Haleon may be required to capture and report expenses Haleon incurs, on your behalf, in the event you are afforded an interview for employment. This capture of applicable transfers of value is necessary to ensure Haleons compliance to all federal and state US Transparency requirements.

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