Senior Manager, R&D and Innovation Procurement – North America

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, Advil, Voltaren, Theraflu, 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. 

Haleon’s R&D and Innovation Procurement organization is responsible for sourcing, contracting and supplier relationship management. We play a key role to enable external supplier solutions, to deliver on our key speed, efficiency, and quality objectives to complement our internal R&D capabilities. We align our activities with the market or market cluster leaders to ensure the efficient implementation of innovation, alliance partnership, sourcing, and deployment of R&D category strategies.  

The Sr. Manager, R&D and Innovation works in close partnership with other members of Procurement teams (global R&D, Direct and CMO) to deliver value, efficiency, quality, and process acceleration to support Consumer Health priorities through strategic sourcing, contracting, supplier relationship management and is an enabler in creating key supplier partnership to drive our growth ambition.  This role works cross functionally as a key partner to Haleon Innovation teams: Commercial, R&D, Supply Chain, Medical and Regulatory and is mainly accountable to support the Innovation and Growth targets in US and Canada for many of our big brands (Centrum, Advil, Theraflu, Emergen-C, Voltaren, Robitussin...)  

This role will report to the Director of R&D and Innovation North America and will partner with other members of the R&D and innovation Procurement Market teams to deliver R&D Procurement value within the market.  

 Role Responsibilities  

• Setting strategy of innovation with suppliers to grow the innovation pipeline.  

• Negotiate pricing for materials through finished goods as well as R&D costs to achieve financial targets (P&L, gross-margin, cost savings). 

• Be responsible for creating cost modeling scenarios.  

• Actively support procurement engagement within relevant Haleon R&D/commercial teams to enable external supplier solutions, speed, efficiency, and quality, to complement internal Consumer Health R&D capabilities.  

• Support implementation of market requirements within the structure of the global sourcing, contract and supplier management strategy of R&D and Innovation Procurement.  

• Partner with Procurement category managers across preclinical, product development, clinical development, regulatory, medical, laboratory products/services, Direct and CMO to ensure that market-specific priorities/suppliers are aligned and streamlined wherever possible.  

• Identify and achieve greater efficiency and consistency in our ways of working, provides greater growth and development opportunities team members, and drives improvements in team capability. 

• Partner with business partners in legal, compliance, quality, finance, etc. achieve an efficient delivery model, focused on achieving our customer and market priorities.  

Why you? 

Basic Qualifications:  

• Bachelor's degree in Supply Chain, Business, Finance, Science or related course of study 

• 5+ years of experience in Procurement in similar role.

• 3+ years of experience in procurement area of R&D, laboratory, medical regulatory, innovation, alliance partnerships and/or directly sourcing materials and finished goods.   

• Experience executing sourcing strategies, cost modeling and building financial scenarios. 

• Demonstrated negotiation skills and ability to influence in negotiations.   

• Ability to forge close business relationships with internal and external stakeholders at all management levels 

• Experience in Consumer healthcare, Pharma, or FMCG companies   

• Strong communication and skill to clearly express ideas and summarize complex information effectively. 

Preferred Qualifications: 

• Strong business acumen with demonstrated success in delivering a multi-year strategy ensuring competitive commercial advantage.  

• Understanding of contracting fundamentals and experience with contract planning, negotiation, execution, interpretation, and maintenance. Experience negotiating with both external and internal stakeholders.  

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