Global Category Lead, Logistics Procurement

3 weeks ago


Weybridge, United Kingdom Haleon Full time

**Job Description**:
**Site Name**: UK - Surrey - Weybridge

**Posted Date**: Mar 10 2023

**Director, Logistics Procurement (Global Transformation & 4PL Lead)**

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 Director, Logistics Procurement (Global Transformation & 4PL Lead) is a key leadership role within the Global Procurement organization, contributing to the development of Haleon’s global logistics and distribution strategy, and progressing this into implementation worldwide. You report into the Head of Global Logistics & Industrial Procurement, act as the thought partner for Supply Chain Vice Presidents and senior business leaders, and lead both commercial engagements and transformational project teams.

**In this role you will **

be responsible for Logistics Procurement, owning the strategy for key components of a global logistics and warehousing annual spend of £500m. The role interacts with senior stakeholders in Supply Chain and directly covers the spend on global logistics for air, ocean, and ground services. You will directly own and manage Haleon’s 4PL commercial relationships and define the commercial strategy for engaging further logistics partners, both global and domestic. To be successful, you will:

- Build and deliver a Procurement strategy across functions or business units that delivers the highest quality service and supply while significantly impacting cost savings across business units or supply network.
- Plan and lead high value, long-term, complex negotiations in areas of spend that significantly impacts the success or failure of a Haleon business unit.
- Act as a strong business partner to your customer groups to deliver relevant strategic procurement solutions.
- Partner with Business Units, Global Logistics and other Haleon stakeholders to performance manage our logistics suppliers to deliver the required levels of service.
- Utilise extensive external supplier and market knowledge to define the supply chain strategy and drive innovation.

**Key Responsibilities**

Strategy creation & execution:

- Create or contribute to comprehensive global and regional sourcing strategies for Logistics and Warehousing spend categories, operating with a strategic mindset and in close collaboration and alignment with the Global Category Leader or Regional Category Leaders. This will include owning Haleon’s 4PL strategies for global logistics spanning air, ocean, and ground modes.
- Lead or support opportunity identification for the logistics categories through activities such as top-down business review, budget/expense reviews, or innovation sessions.
- Support Global Procurement’s participation in external benchmarking efforts. Deliver intelligence on external best practices for logistics in support of Haleon’s efforts in ongoing continuous improvement and innovation. Enhance relative maturity and capabilities through transformation programs, benchmarking, and execution efforts.
- Define and implement logistics commercial KPI’s in alignment with overall logistics goals.
- Enable the logistics category strategy alignment between central programs, such as Sustainability, Policy/Risk/Compliance, Supplier Diversity, or Supplier Relationship Management.
- Have a clear understanding of how global and regional strategies affect local markets and how global and regional strategies align.
- Be the global and/ or regional expert for defined logistics spend categories.

Benefit delivery:

- Deliver global, regional, and in country benefits identified in strategies through effective strategy execution and supply base performance management.
- Create and deliver effective regional and global budgets agreed with key stakeholders and Finance in accordance with the Spend Management Framework and fully aligned with global budgets.
- Support the alignment of Global Procurement inputs into country Business Unit (BU) updates, enabling a category-oriented procurement organization to effectively maintain matrix relationships to key stakeholders.

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