Director – Capital and Facilities Procurement

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 Director, Capital and Facilities Procurement will have responsibility for end-to-end Capital and Facilities Procurement, and reports into Head, Global Directs and Capital Procurement. The role leads Procurement for a strategic area of the business. The role interacts with senior stakeholders in Capital construction, engineering and directly covers ~£800m in spend across ongoing business capital needs and new projects Capital requirements (incl. Greenfield/Brownfield projects), Facilities procurement across QSC, Commercial business.

Additionally, the role:

• Develops strategic sourcing strategies for a defined portfolio
• Requires high cultural awareness
• Plans, leads and oversees negotiations
• Builds and delivers a Procurement strategy across global portfolio
• Creates and implements Procurement initiatives/strategies which improve quality of service and supply and produce significant cost savings across business units or supply networks
• Knows and utilises complex business processes in all Haleon supplier transactions, including all risk/regulatory/compliance requirements
• Understands and business partners the customer group in order to deliver relevant strategic procurement solutions
• Significant external supplier and market knowledge
• Leads, manages and develops a team of procurement managers to facilitate delivery of the primary role purpose described above.

In this role you will…

• Develop a comprehensive strategy for the procurement of Capital (Equipment, construction) and Facilities spend designed to ensure high quality of services and ensure Haleon’s competitive position
• Collaborate with key stakeholders to deploy strategies globally, facilitated by robust implementation and transition plans
• Generate value in terms of quality, delivery, and cost; contribute significantly to organization’s goals and objectives

Key Responsibilities

• Manage a spend of £800m of Capital and Facilities by creating comprehensive global sourcing strategies, operating with a truly global and strategic mindset
• Build strategic relationships with a network of senior Haleon global stakeholders, to understand business requirements, identify opportunities to create value and to position Procurement’s value proposition. Align sourcing strategies accordingly
• Create compelling business cases for change and obtain approval to execute from Haleon Procurement and/or other support functions (Finance, HR) senior management, and to agree how benefit delivery will be budgeted
• Contract planning, negotiation, execution, interpretation and maintenance. Negotiate with suppliers and work with legal in bringing a contract from draft form to completion
• Deliver global benefits identified in strategies through effective strategy execution, aligned to assurance of supply (risk management), compliance, quality, service, cost and innovation
• Engage stakeholders, Finance and other relevant functions in the sourcing strategy delivery and execution
• Build strategic relationships with key suppliers at a senior level and lead processes to ensure value is driven from these relationships
• Ensure BU considerations are accounted for in supplier relationships.
• Lead and direct category teams within scope of responsibility
• Build the organizational capabilities necessary to implement Haleon strategy, now and in the future.
• Ensure appropriate communication strategy is in place and in use within the relevant Procurement and business customer networks

Qualifications & Skills:

• Minimum Level of Education Required: Bachelor’s Degree
• Preferred Level of Education: Master’s Degree, 10+ years of work experience
• Area of Specialisation: Supply Chain, Procurement, Business, Finance

Why is it Required? Role requires ability to develop sophisticated procurement strategies in alignment with business needs. A strong understanding of business and financial analysis is a plus.

Significant experience in procurement, leading teams

Subject matter expertise in procurement area of Capital procurement

Highly developed business acumen with demonstrated success in delivering a multi-year strategy ensuring competitive commercial advantage

Demonstrated ability to forge close business relationships with internal and external stakeholders at all management levels

Contracting experience required, including a thorough understanding of contracting fundamentals and experience with contract planning, negotiation, execution, interpretation and maintenance. Skilled negotiator adept at leading complex negotiations with both external and internal stakeholders

Good understanding of market drivers affecting category; strong commitment to keeping abreast of trends

Finely honed project and change management skills

In depth understanding of latest tools for executing sourcing strategies

Clear understanding business value, business priorities, and potential implementation risks

Experience managing the delivery of large projects and with end-to-end service / operations management

Strong analytical, written and verbal communication skills