Senior Manager - Procurement Analytics

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

As a Sr. Manager, Procurement – Analytics for the Procurement Strategy & Delivery Team, you will drive and support development of analytical solutions to help achieve Procurement objectives and KPI’s. The ideal candidate will play a key role in optimizing and improving procurement processes.

Key Responsibilities

• Responsible to design & implement Procurement BI & Data strategy to enable delivery of Procurement objectives
• Responsible to drive Procurement data and reporting for Procurement performance indicators, from extraction and data transformation/enrichment to visualization in dashboards and advanced analysis tools.
• Oversee and manage the change management, implementation, and execution of the key procurement projects and cost savings recommendations.
• Support in developing and delivering against the long term procurement strategies.
• Ensure timely and effective completion of projects and initiatives for the Global procurement.
• Develop analytical solutions, perform data analysis, generate insights and provide senior management reports and data insights
• Ensure integrity and transparency of the data sources and manipulation steps across all systems, including legacy systems.
• Work with Category Managers to understand their data and analytics requirements and providing them with analytics solutions
• Working with Haleon’s Tech and Finance partners, build and transfer knowledge/expertise on Haleon data and BI (systems, feeds, governance).
• Procurement organization knowledge (scope, purpose, indicators, needs) used to ensure the requirements are in line with the true information needs from Category managers and Procurement operations managers.
• Maintain and provide a current understanding of industry best practices and technology trends to team members and business partners.
• Provide actionable insights to procurement and the business using multiple data sources, which deliver significant business value.
• Develop custom data models and algorithms to apply to procurement data sets

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When applying for this role, please use the ‘cover letter’ of 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: 

• 8-12 years of total procurement experience.
• At-least 5-6 years in procurement (as a solution provider, consultant or practitioner) including spend analytics, contract management, sourcing, supplier management, risk and compliance.
• Technical or numerical degree educated and/or relevant qualifications/experience - Understanding of data architecture, data quality processes, and data modelling.
• Experience of spend / data analysis with a strong technical, problem solving and analytical mindset.
• Strong background in using visualization tools – e.g. Power BI, Qlik and excellent Advanced Excel skills with high levels of numeracy and accuracy.
• Experience in procurement strategy development and implementation, Ability to drive digital transformation projects.       
• Proven ability to produce professional, accurate and timely reports for senior stakeholders.
• Ability to collaborate with multiple stakeholders seamlessly to drive projects effectively.
• Ability to work well under pressure and maintain close attention to data.
• Ability to plan, organize and priorities tasks and project.
• Ability to solve problems creatively and effectively.
• Experience with SAP procurement solutions preferable (SAP ECC, SAP Ariba etc.).
• Experience in statistical methods, machine learning and data science programming skills such as Python and R preferable
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills – fluent English
• FMCG and CH preferable.

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