The Senior Manager, Global Marketing, Creative & Production is a key member of the Global Indirect Procurement organization, responsible for all category management and sourcing activities for the Creative & Production category globally. The role reports to the Director, Content & Production and focuses on developing and executing global category strategies that align with regional and local market requirements while leveraging global opportunities.
Key Responsibilities
- Strategy and Execution
- Manage a spend of £20m+ for Global Marketing, Creative & Production categories.
- Create comprehensive global sourcing strategies, operating with a truly global and strategic mindset and in close collaboration with business units.
- Understand how global and regional strategies affect local markets and ensure alignment.
- Build an education & communication process for regional and business unit procurement leads.
- Serve as the global expert in the spend categories.
- Ensure global strategies reflect Haleon’s sustainability and diversity objectives.
- Benefit Delivery
- Deliver benefits identified in strategies through effective and collaborative strategy execution with business units, ensuring risk management, quality, service, cost and innovation.
- Manage financial benefits in accordance with the Procurement Plan and Savings Methodology, ensuring business unit and finance agreement on value delivered and transparency in budgeting.
- Business Partnering & Stakeholder Management
- Influence key global and regional stakeholders and business partners to support strategy development, endorse recommended strategies, support execution and agree on benefit budgeting.
- External Supplier Relationships
- Build strategic relationships with key global suppliers and lead processes to drive value from these relationships.
- Ensure global and regional considerations are accounted for in supplier relationships.
- Manage the supply base with a robust performance management process, measuring supplier performance.
- Lead contract planning, negotiation, execution, interpretation and maintenance with global suppliers to maximize opportunity.
- Develop and implement operational excellence strategies and plans for key global 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, including cost control, complexity reduction, simplification, best practice procurement and KPI use.
Qualifications & Skills
- Minimum Level of Education: Bachelor’s Degree; Preferred: 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.
- Demonstrated expertise in managing categories, particularly 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, priorities and potential implementation risks.
- Significant experience working in a matrix (global/regional) environment.
- Strong networking skills and ability to build productive relationships with senior stakeholders and business partners.
- Demonstrated leadership and partnership to drive, implement and support change.
- Ability to prioritize multiple tasks across multiple projects using project management skills.
- Strong analytical, written and verbal communication, and influencing skills.
- Ability to work in high‑pressure environments, often under tight deadlines.
- Experience with risk management.
- Motivation for professional development and willingness to coach, mentor and train others.
Equal Opportunities
Haleon is committed to mobilising our purpose in a way that represents the diverse consumers and communities who rely on our brands every day. We create an inclusive culture where different backgrounds and views are valued and respected, supporting the understanding and best serving of our consumers and unleashing the full potential of our people. Haleon is a place where all employees feel they truly belong. During the application process, personal information may be requested to meet regulatory and reporting obligations and support inclusion and belonging programmes. That information is kept confidential and used only for legitimate business purposes, never for employment decisions.
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