Senior Manager, Procurement – EMEA Performance Full Time

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.

About Role

The Senior Manager, Procurement – EMEA Performance is responsible for procurement performance management across all Procurement objectives for the Europe and MEA Operating Units, driving measurable value, improving supplier outcomes, and enabling data-driven decision-making across the organization.

Establishing a robust procurement performance management that ensures the teams deliver measurable strategic value to the organization.

Role Responsibilities

Procurement Performance Management

• Drive a standardized performance management framework across all KPIs and value drivers
• Own performance governance, reporting cadence, and continuous improvement cycles for their area
• Develop executive-level performance insights and communication for procurement leadership and OU leadership.
• Ensure transparency and accountability in procurement performance across the teams.

Value Delivery Governance

• Establish governance mechanisms to track and validate value delivery, including productivity, cash improvement, innovation, and broader value contributions.
• Partner closely with Finance, Legal, HR, and OUs to align drive wider programs and their value generation.
• Lead regular performance reviews with procurement leadership and business stakeholders to ensure delivery against targets.

Performance Insights

• Build analytics that support OU performance management and program decision-making.
• Leverage spend analytics, supplier data, and operational metrics to identify performance improvement opportunities.
• Collaborate with other Procurement performance managers to ensure a standardised, consistent and up to performance management approach is executed seamlessly
• Provide standard and regular OU reporting and insights
• Drive a culture of data-driven procurement management and performance transparency.

Stakeholder Alignment

• Work closely with OU finance teams on COGS and SG&A value delivery through third parties, aligning on external and internal performance reporting on costs as well as key programs
• Serve as a liaison between procurement leadership across all spend categories and OU buying teams, and key enterprise stakeholders for value delivery in the year and outer years
• Provide strategic insights and performance updates to senior leadership and governance forums.
• Bring to multiple Procurement teams together and connected on OU performance insights, actions and next steps.

Basic Skills (Essential):

• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Supply Chain, Procurement, Risk Management or related field (or equivalent experience)
• 10+ years of experience in procurement, strategy, transformation, or program management
• Strong expertise in procurement processes across the source-to-pay lifecycle and best practices
• Proven experience in program governance, performance management frameworks, and value delivery tracking
• Strong stakeholder management with ability to influence senior stakeholders across and beyond the organization
• Experience delivering large-scale projects and end-to-end service/operations management
• Strong analytical, communication, and executive presentation skills (business cases, senior-level storytelling)
• Proficiency in English and Microsoft Office tools (PowerPoint, Excel)

Preferred Skills:

• Master’s degree in Business, Supply Chain, Procurement, Risk Management or related field
• Professional certifications (e.g., CPSM, CPIM, PMP)
• Experience working in matrix/global environments with cross-functional teams
• Ability to operate effectively at both strategic and operational levels
• Proven leadership capability, including influencing without authority and driving change
• Strong problem-solving skills with high learning agility and ability to work with ambiguity
• Experience working in high-pressure, deadline-driven environments
• Demonstrated ability to coach, mentor, and develop team capability

Job Posting End Date

2026-06-11

Equal Opportunities

Haleon are committed to mobilising our purpose in a way that represents the diverse consumers and communities who rely on our brands every day. It guides us in creating an inclusive culture, where different backgrounds and views are valued and respected – all in support of understanding and best serving the needs of our consumers and unleashing the full potential of our people. It’s important to us that Haleon is a place where all our employees feel they truly belong.

During the application process, we may ask you to share some personal information, which is entirely voluntary. This information ensures we meet certain regulatory and reporting obligations and supports the development, refinement, and execution of our inclusion and belonging programmes that are open to all Haleon employees.

The personal information you provide will be kept confidential, used only for legitimate business purposes, and will never be used in making any employment decisions, including hiring decisions.

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