Senior Manager, Global Creative & Production

Part of the Global Indirect Procurement organization, the Senior Manager will be responsible for all category management and sourcing activities for the Creative & Production category globally. This role reports to the Director, Content & Production.

In this role you will be responsible for the development and implementation of global category strategies within your area of spend, which will form the strategic foundation and direction of all regional category strategies and BU strategies. As such, this role will need to work closely with the BU teams to ensure the global strategy accounts for regional and local market requirements while leveraging the global view and opportunities.

• Be responsible for the development and implementation of global category strategies within your area of spend.
• Manage a spend of [ £20m+ ] for Global Marketing, Creative & Production categories.
• Create comprehensive global sourcing strategies for category in scope of responsibility, operating with a truly global and strategic mindset and in close collaboration with the BUs.
• Have a clear understanding of how global and regional strategies affect local markets and how global and regional strategies align.
• Build an education & communication process for regional and BU procurement leads.
• Be the global expert in the spend categories.
• Ensure global strategies reflect Haleon's sustainability and diversity objectives.

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

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

• Build strategic relationships with key global suppliers and lead processes to ensure value is driven from these relationships.
• Ensure global and regional considerations are accounted for in supplier relationships.
• Manage the supply base for the categories within scope through a robust performance management process. Ensure supplier performance is understood and measured.
• 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 global suppliers to drive improvements against KPIs.

• Transform the supply chain 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.

• Minimum Level of Education Required: Bachelor's Degree.
• Preferred Level of Education: Master's Degree.
• Area of Specialisation: Procurement, Business, Finance, Supply Chain, Marketing.
• 5+ 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.