Network Operations Director QSC NA

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, Tums, Emergen-C, 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. 

Network Operations Director, QSC NA

This is a critical role, with a high degree of trust and visibility among senior leaders across the North America and QSC Organizations. This role is the owner in North America of multiple relevant strategic workstreams: Supply Sourcing Strategy, Productivity Savings Program, Portfolio Simplification program, Supply Network capacity management and Supply performance, among others.  Strategic ability and Strong stakeholder communication is essential, as are excellent communication skills (both verbal and written), along with high levels of approachability and emotional intelligence.  The candidate must be values based – trust being a key enabler in delivering against the objectives of the role. They must be proactive, independent and highly performance focused. Excellent planning skills are a must. They should be able to take insights from around the business and distill them into concise feedback for the QSC VP (act as the eyes and ears of the org). They should have a high level of learning agility - need to pick things up quickly across all category and functional areas and bring both objective viewpoints and potential solutions to challenges that present themselves. 

Key responsibilities: 

• North America Sourcing Decisions 

• Drive, build and arrive to a NA sourcing recommendation to be endorsed by the US LT: implement standard sourcing decision process, templates and decision-making forum.  

• Balance Global strategy, site capacity, service, cost and investment, and operational capabilities 

• Lead team: internal NA resources + global resources to benefit NA goals 

• North America Network Management 

• Owner of the Long-Term capacity process in North America 

• Partner with Planning to complete calculations on standardized formats, and achieve clarity of issues and actions needed 

• COGs End to End Savings Program 

• Design and implement a new COGS End to End savings program to serve as internal fund to hedge profit delivery despite of factors not foreseen 

• Lead engagement of all areas to deliver savings targets: Internal manufacturing, External manufacturing, Logistics and warehousing, Procurement, VE, Portfolio simplification 

• QSC LT team performance: Coordinate team activities