Director, EMEA Sites, Warehouse & Distribution & Capital Procurement

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.

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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.

About the Role

As the Director, EMEA Sites, Warehouse & Distribution (W&D) & Capital Procurement – Cross BU-EMEA,

You’ll lead the site Procurement teams in EMEA, ensuring quality, service, and supply risk management. You’ll partner with global and regional buying teams to drive strategy, focusing on savings delivery, value engineering, and complexity reduction.

This high-impact role spans multiple categories and suppliers, with significant scope and complexity.

In this role, you will:

• Drive key stakeholder engagement for spend categories, aligning with global categories to meet business needs.

• Collaborate with Procurement leaders to adopt best practices.

• Strategically engage with stakeholders to position Procurement’s value proposition.

• Ensure compliance with Haleon Procurement policies and processes.

• Lead, manage, and develop a team of professional sourcing staff across multiple countries.

• Build high-performing teams and champion diversity and inclusion.

• Develop strategic relationships with senior Haleon stakeholders to create value and position Procurement’s value proposition.

• Align with global category teams to execute sourcing strategies and deliver benefits through effective strategy execution.

• Build strategic relationships with key suppliers and manage supplier performance.

• Transform the supply chain to release value and respond to business and customer needs.

• Identify and manage significant risks in the supply chain, ensuring appropriate mitigation plans are in place.

Qualifications & Skills:

• Master’s Degree in Procurement, Supply Chain, Engineering, Science, Business, or Finance.

• Significant professional Procurement experience in a comparable large, complex company, preferably FMCG.

• Experience in raw and packaging material procurement.

• Strong leadership, stakeholder management, and strategic influencing skills.

• Strong business and financial acumen, technical expertise, and decision-making capability.

• Demonstrated relationship management and program management skills.

• Understanding of legal, compliance, and regulatory frameworks.

• Contracting experience, including planning, negotiation, execution, interpretation, and maintenance.

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