Senior Manager, Media Procurement - Global

Senior Manager, Media Procurement – Global

Hello. We’re Haleon. A new world-leading consumer health company. Shaped by all who join us. Together, we’re 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. What’s more, we’re achieving it in a company that we’re in control of. In an environment that we’re co-creating. And a culture that’s uniquely ours. Care to join us. It isn’t 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, we’re 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. It’s an opportunity to be part of something special.

Role Overview

The Senior Manager, Media Procurement – Global will work on media procurement category globally and will be responsible for various category management and sourcing activities for the wider Media category. In this role, you will:

• Strategize and implement the media procurement initiatives across business units (BUs)

• Develop and implement the sourcing strategy for media in partnership with the Global Media team

• Manage relationships and negotiate contracts with global media suppliers and other publishers to deliver value back to Haleon

• Support overall delivery of Global Media procurement activities

This role will be part of the Global Indirects Procurement organization and report into the Senior Director, Marketing Procurement.

In this role you will…

… be responsible for the development and implementation of global category strategies within Media, 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.

Key Responsibilities

Strategy and execution

• Create comprehensive global media procurement strategies 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

Benefit delivery

• 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

Business partnering & stakeholder management in Haleon

• 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

External supplier relationships

• 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.

Supply chain & risk management

• 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

Qualifications & Skills: 

Minimum Level of Education Required: Bachelor’s Degree

Area of Specialisation: Procurement, Business, Finance, Supply Chain, Marketing

• 8+ years of operational Procurement experience across multiple categories

• Excellent functional expertise for procurement preferably with past experience of having procured media services specifically

• Direct working knowledge of media space – either as planner, buyer or manager

• In-depth understanding of external environment and supplier relationship models

• Strong 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

• 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 to build productive and collaborative relationships with senior stakeholders and business partners

• Demonstrated leadership and ability to work in partnership with others to drive, implement and support change

• Ability to prioritize multiple tasks across multiple projects using project management skills

• Strong analytical, written and verbal communications, and influencing skills

• Ability to work in high pressure environment, often under tight deadlines

• Experience with risk management

• Motivation for professional development and willingness to coach, mentor and train others

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