Senior Manager, Global Creative & Production

## Senior Manager, Global Creative & ProductionApply: London Bankside: Full time: Posted Today: End Date: September 27, 2026 (12 days left to apply): 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.The Senior Manager, Global Marketing, Creative & Production part of the Global Indirect Procurement organization, will be responsible for all category management and sourcing activities for the Creative & Production category globally. This role will report to the Director, Content & Production.**In this role you will...**... be responsible for the development and implementation of global category strategies within your area of spend, 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*** Manage a spend of (£20m+) for Global Marketing, Creative & Production categories* Create comprehensive global sourcing strategies for category 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**Preferred Level of Education**: 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 and others* Demonstrated expertise in managing categories, particularly category 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, 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**Job Posting End Date** #J-18808-Ljbffr