Director, OU Buying Market APAC

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.

Role Overview

The Director, OU Buying Marketing APAC is a part of Global Indirect Procurement organization and will have responsibility for implementing marketing activities in APAC region. The role interacts with senior stakeholders. Within this role you will oversee all of Marketing spend for the region. Additionally, the role:

• Develops sourcing strategies for a defined portfolio
• Requires high cultural awareness
• Plans, leads and oversees negotiations
• Build and delivers a Procurement strategy across portfolio or Region/Sub-Region
• 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 regional strategy that dovetails into the global strategy and ambitions of the company 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 c£650m 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 Global Marketing & Media 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

Please take a copy of the Job Description, as this will not be available post closure of the advert.

When applying for this role, please use the ‘cover letter’ of the online application or your CV to describe how you meet the competencies for this role, as outlined in the job requirements above. The information that you have provided in your cover letter and CV will be used to assess your application.

Qualifications & Skills: 

Minimum Level of Education Required: Bachelor’s Degree

Preferred Level of Education: Master’s Degree

Area of Specialisation:  Procurement, Business, Finance, Marketing

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.

Minimum Level of Job-Related Experience:

• Significant experience in procurement, leading teams
• Subject matter expertise in procurement area of Marketing within APAC region
• 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 effecting 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

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Equal Opportunities

Haleon are committed to mobilising our purpose in a way that represents the diverse consumers and communities who rely on our brands every day. It guides us in creating an inclusive culture, where different backgrounds and views are valued and respected – all in support of understanding and best serving the needs of our consumers and unleashing the full potential of our people. It’s important to us that Haleon is a place where all our employees feel they truly belong.

During the application process, we may ask you to share some personal information, which is entirely voluntary. This information ensures we meet certain regulatory and reporting obligations and supports the development, refinement, and execution of our inclusion and belonging programmes that are open to all Haleon employees. 

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