Senior Manager, OU Corporate Services 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.

About Role

The Senior Manager, Corporate Services, OU Buying APAC part of the Global Indirect Procurement organization, will be responsible for all category management and sourcing activities for the Corporate Services category within APAC region. This role will report to the Corporate Services OU APAC lead.

In this role you will…

… be responsible for the adaptation and implementation of global category strategies within your area of spend, which will form the strategic foundation and direction of all spend sourcing strategy in the respective Operating Units. As such, this role will need to work closely with the category team to ensure the global strategy accounts for OU requirements while leveraging the global view and opportunities.

Role Responsibilities:

Strategy and execution

• Manage spend of ~£10-15m, Corporate Services spend pools (consulting, HR services, financial services, legal services, fleet etc), OU APAC categories

  
  
  

• Create comprehensive sourcing strategies for category in scope of responsibility, operating with a truly global and strategic mindset and in close collaboration with the category team

  
  
  

• Have a clear understanding of how OU requirements are built into the strategies

  
  
  

• Be the expert in the spend categories especially for the respective OU

  
  
  

• Ensure strategies are implemented holistically and true to its principles in the OU

  
  
  

Benefit delivery

• Deliver benefits identified in strategies through effective and collaborative strategy execution with the OUs, 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 operating 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 OU 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 suppliers locally and lead processes to ensure value is driven from these relationships.

  
  
  

• Ensure global and regional considerations are accounted for in supplier relationships

  
  
  

• 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 suppliers to drive improvements against KPIs.

  
  
  

Supply chain & risk management

• Transform the end to end spend 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

  
  
  

• Ensure suppliers are managed against their third-party risks effectively

  
  
  

Basic Skills (Essential):

• Bachelor’s degree in Procurement, Business, Finance, Supply Chain, Marketing or related field

  
  
  

• 7+ years of operational procurement experience across multiple categories

  
  
  

• Strong expertise in sourcing, quotation analysis, contract negotiation, and supplier management

  
  
  

• Proven category management experience including strategy development and implementation

  
  
  

• Solid understanding of financial (cost benchmarking, supplier audits) and legal (contracting) aspects

  
  
  

• Ability to manage multiple projects and prioritize effectively in high-pressure environments

  
  
  

• Strong analytical, communication, and stakeholder influencing skills

  
  
  

Preferred Skills:

• Master’s degree in Procurement, Business, Finance, Supply Chain, Marketing or related field

  
  
  

• Experience working in matrix/global organizational environments

  
  
  

• Deep understanding of supplier relationship models and external market dynamics

  
  
  

• Strong stakeholder management with ability to influence senior leaders

  
  
  

• Demonstrated leadership capability with experience driving change and transformation

  
  
  

• Experience in risk management frameworks within procurement

  
  
  

• Proven ability to coach, mentor, and develop team capability

  
  
  

• Strong networking and collaboration skills across cross-functional teams

  
  
  

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