Senior Director, Global Packaging

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.

Procurement Senior Director, Global Packaging

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 Senior Director, Global Packaging has an annual spend accountability of up to ~£500m (global sourced packaging & provide key inputs for regional packaging) & contribute towards £150m spend in Materials for CMO. This role is a part of Global Direct Procurement.

This role is responsible for leadership of the Procurement teams on a global scope for packaging-related categories of spend, and is accountable for the quality, service/ supply risk and cost of all packaging materials and services procured for the sites. 

The geographic scope of the role is Global with an organisation of ~12 resources covering Category scope Primary and Secondary packaging across 3 regions (23 Haleon sites). The role also influences in-directly regional OU packaging buying resources and provides overall guidelines and strategy

This is a high impact, high complexity role with significant scope that spans across multiple categories and suppliers.

In this role you will…

• Drive the creation, execution and management of comprehensive sourcing strategies for spend categories, in a matrix approach with Global Categories in order to best meet the needs of the operating units in region.
• Collaborate and align with other Procurement leaders and teams within the region and/or globally to understand and adopt best practices.
• Manage 3 year category strategy roadmap.
• Be responsible for COGs delivery including Savings, service, Quality
• Strategically engage with and understand the business requirements of stakeholders and business partners and to position the Procurement value proposition, on local, regional and global levels.
• Ensure Haleon Procurement policies, procedures, processes, systems and methodologies are utilized in a compliant manner in the area of responsibility
• Accountable for the quality, service/ supply risk and cost of all packaging materials and services for manufacturing sites and operating units.
• Accountable for creating and implementing Procurement strategies and initiatives which improve quality and service/ supply risk and deliver significant cost savings across business units and supply networks.
• Accountable for ensuring contract coverage for globally owned spend
• Accountable for ensuring ideation with the SCs and Sites of new value creation projects (innovation, savings, quality, service/ supply risk) and for partnering with them for optimal OTIF delivery.  Accountable for involving suppliers in this as appropriate.
• Lead, manage and develop a team of professional sourcing staff, located in multiple countries, to ensure effective performance of in the scope of responsibility
  • Direct reports, indirect reports, matrix reports
  • Developing capability of staff, technical, leadership and behavioural
  • Leading improvements in team performance

Key Responsibilities

People leadership

• Lead and direct a Procurement team across multiple countries within a region
• Develop and implement effective ways of working across the region, OUs and Category team to ensure a cohesive approach
• Ensure appropriate communication strategy across BUs and Category teams is in place and in use
• Develop the team and individual capabilities from both technical and behavioural aspects
• Act and Role Model leadership qualities in keeping with Haleon values
• Build high-performing teams, championing those that drive both the ‘WHAT’ and the ‘HOW’ linking high-performance to Haleon performance management criteria
• Create a truly inclusive culture and diverse teams

Business partnering & stakeholder management in Haleon

• Build strategic relationship with a network of senior Haleon local/regional/functional/site stakeholders, to understand business requirements, identify opportunities to create value and to position Procurement’s value proposition.
• Influence key stakeholders and business partners to support strategy development endorse recommend strategies, support execution and agree how benefit delivery will be budgeted

Stakeholders management in Haleon

• Build strategic relationship with a network of senior Haleon local/regional stakeholders, to understand business requirements, identify opportunities to create value and to position Procurement’s value proposition.
• Influence key stakeholders and business partners to support strategy development endorse recommend strategies, support execution and agree how benefit delivery will be budgeted

Strategy execution

• Align with global category team and work in collaboration with these them to provide local business requirements and market information to support effective collaborative regional and global strategy creation and execution
• Execute sourcing strategies for spend categories in scope of responsibility aligned with the requirements of stakeholders and business partners
• Deliver benefits identified in strategies, local, regional and global, through effective and collaborative strategy execution, aligned to assurance of supply (risk management), quality, service, cost and innovation

Benefit delivery

• Support category lead in the creation and delivery of effective regional savings targets agreed with key stakeholders and Finance in accordance with the agreed Savings Methodology
• Deliver benefit identified in strategies, local, regional and global, through effective and collaborative strategy execution, aligned to assurance of supply (risk management), quality, service, cost and innovation.

Drive operational efficiency

• Challenge requirements and educate stakeholder to drive maximum contract and PSL compliance
• Drive operational simplification across the categories and procurement processes in scope

External supplier relationships

• Build strategic relationships with key regional/local suppliers at a senior level and lead processes to ensure value is driven from these relationships. Ensure local considerations are accounted global & regional supplier relationships.
• Ensure regional considerations are taken into account in global supplier negotiations and contracts
• Manage the supply base for the categories within scope through a robust performance management process. Ensure supplier performance is understood and measured.
• Negotiate, create, execute and manage effective regional/local contracts with suppliers that will allow Haleon to maximize opportunity.
• Develop and Implement Operational excellence strategies and plans for key regional/local 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 in close collaboration with Global a category teams – for example in cost control, complexity reduction, simplification, best practise procurement and KPI’s.
• Identify and manage significant risks in the regional/local supply chain. Ensure appropriate mitigation plans are in place and in use and that the risks are communicated appropriately within business units impacted, Procurement and the supply base

Please take a copy of the Job Description, as this will not be available post closure of the advert.

When applying for this role, please use the cover letter, the online application or your CV to describe how you meet the competencies for this role, as outlined in the job requirements above. The information that you have provided in your cover letter and CV will be used to assess your application.

Qualifications & Skills: 

• Preferred Level of Education: Master’s Degree
• Area of Specialization: Procurement/ Supply Chain/ Engineering/ Science/ Business/ Finance
• Why is it required?: The role holder is expected to create/ unlock P&L value through deep understanding of the respective value chains of each material and service; to do this well and to the expected degree, it requires considerable advanced technical and financial knowledge and understanding.

Minimum Level of Job-Related Experience Required:

• Significant (15+ years) professional Procurement experience in a comparable large, complex company
• Significant leadership experience (5+ years at Director level or above)
• Strong capability to execute; this is core to the role
• Strategy development and implementation; strong value creation capability
• Strong stakeholder management and strategic influencing skills
• Strong capability to drive accountability
• Strong business and financial acumen
• Strong technical expertise
• Demonstrated decision making capability
• Demonstrated relationship management skills
• Demonstrated programme management capability
• Understanding of legal/ compliance/ regulatory frameworks
• Strong external orientation
• Contracting experience required, including a thorough understanding of contracting fundamentals and experience with contract planning, negotiation, execution, interpretation and maintenance

Why is this level of experience required?

• The role holder is expected to be able to influence senior leaders effectively.
• The role holder is expected to be able to deliver significant transformation and change.
• The role holder is expected to be able to develop and deliver Procurement strategies that are aligned with the business’s requirements. 
• The role holder is expected to lead Local and some Regional spends Procurement, including planning, leading and overseeing negotiations.
• The role holder is expected to deliver strong financial results, in particular: significant materials cost savings and cost avoidance and inventory reduction. 
• The role holder is expected to manage significant projects.
• The role holder is expected to have significant external supplier and market knowledge.
• The role holder is expected to be able to benchmark externally to identify new opportunities and ensure competitive performance and is expected to be able to identify best practices externally and implement them in HALEON.
• The role holder is expected to manage Procurement through complex legal, compliance and regulatory frameworks.

Belonging and Inclusion

At Haleon we embrace our diverse workforce by creating an inclusive environment that celebrates our unique perspectives, generates curiosity to create unmatched understanding of each other, and promotes fair and equitable outcomes for everyone.

We’re striving to create a climate where we celebrate our diversity in all forms by treating each other with respect, listening to different viewpoints, supporting our communities, and creating a workplace where your authentic self belongs and thrives.

We believe in an agile working culture for all our roles. If flexibility is important to you, we encourage you to explore with our hiring team what the opportunities are.

 

 

 

 Job Posting End Date

 

 

2026-08-30

 

 

 

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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Note to candidates

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