Senior Manager Global Media Procurement

Welcome to Haleon. Were a purpose-driven world-class consumer company putting everyday health in the hands of just three years since our launch weve 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 its 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.

Role Overview

Haleon is looking for a Senior Procurement Manager Global Media to join our Global Procurement team and play a pivotal role in shaping deploying and embedding global media procurement strategies that drive value transparency innovation and business impact across our media investments.

This is a senior role that goes beyond traditional sourcing. You will be expected to develop category strategies translate them into practical implementation plans influence senior stakeholders and lead complex cross-functional initiatives across global regional and local teams.

Operating at the intersection of Procurement Marketing Digital Finance and our agency ecosystem you will ensure Haleons media investments are commercially optimised strategically aligned and future-ready while strengthening governance capability and decision-making across a complex global matrix organisation.

In this role you will

be accountable for developing and implementing global media procurement strategies within your area of spend creating the strategic foundation and direction for regional category strategies and BU execution plans. You will work closely with Marketing Finance Digital regional procurement teams and business units to ensure strategies are commercially robust globally consistent locally relevant and effectively embedded across the organisation.

Key Responsibilities

Strategic Sourcing & Partner Selection

• Lead complex end-to-end sourcing and category transformation initiatives typically with multi-market and/or global scope across:
  • Media platforms and planning tools
  • Ad tech data verification and measurement partners (e.g. brand safety attention optimisation)
• Design and execute strategic sourcing processes RFPs/RFQs supplier evaluations negotiations and implementation plans that balance value quality innovation risk and speed of adoption
• Ensure selected partners deliver measurable improvements in efficiency effectiveness and value
• Shape and embed global media strategy and sourcing principles across regions and business units ensuring alignment with Haleon priorities and local market realities
• Lead implementation through a global matrix setting clear governance decision rights stakeholder engagement plans and adoption measures

NonWorking Media & Innovation Fund Management

• Support governance and oversight of nonworking media spend including innovation and capability funds
• Validate commercial structures pricing and value delivery
• Track outcomes and business impact to enable scaling of successful initiatives
• Partner with Marketing and agency teams to ensure disciplined valuefocused investment

Supplier Performance & Relationship Insights

• Lead the agency / client satisfaction survey process endtoend
• Translate results into clear insights risks and improvement actions
• Monitor supplier performance and support structured continuous improvement plans
• Provide transparency and insight into agency and partner relationships

Media Sustainability (Key Focus Area)

• Champion media sustainability within Procurement
• Identify opportunities to reduce the environmental impact of media investments
• Collaborate with Marketing and partners to influence more sustainable practices
• Track progress bring external benchmarks and support reporting and capability building

Scope of Work (SOW) & Commercial Transparency

• Support the development and deployment of a standardised Scope of Work framework
• Build and maintain a central repository of agency scopes pricing and resource models
• Enable crossmarket benchmarking and commercial business intelligence
• Increase visibility into agency deliverables resourcing and cost structures

Data Analytics & Insights

• Analyse media spend and supplier data to identify optimisation opportunities
• Build benchmarks dashboards and insight packs to support factbased decisionmaking
• Provide commercial and analytical input to senior stakeholders and governance forums

Stakeholder Collaboration

• Partner closely with Marketing Digital Finance and agency teams
• Act as a trusted pragmatic commercial partner
• Influence without authority in a matrixed global environment

What Success Looks Like

• Global media procurement strategies are developed aligned and implemented with clear business impact and measurable value creation
• Strong insightled supplier performance and relationship management
• Implementation of SOW benchmarking and transparency capabilities
• Effective and disciplined management of innovation and nonworking media funds
• Clear progress on media sustainability priorities
• High confidence from senior stakeholders with strong cross-functional collaboration and effective influence across a global matrix organisation

Strategy Development & Global Implementation

• Build clear insight-led category strategies that connect market dynamics supplier capabilities business priorities value creation opportunities and implementation risks
• Convert strategy into practical global deployment roadmaps including sequencing stakeholder engagement governance capability building and change management
• Influence senior stakeholders across Procurement Marketing Finance Digital regions and business units to drive alignment adoption and measurable delivery
• Anticipate organisational barriers and implementation risks and develop pragmatic mitigation plans that enable strategies to land effectively in a global matrix environment

Qualifications & Experience

• Approximately 10 years experience in procurement marketing procurement media sourcing consulting or related commercial roles with meaningful exposure to media marketing or digital ecosystems
• Experience working with media agencies media platforms or the adtech ecosystem desirable
• Proven experience developing category strategies leading complex sourcing processes and negotiating commercial agreements with strategic suppliers
• Strong analytical skills with the ability to turn data into actionable insights
• Experience in supplier management and performance tracking
• Strong track record operating in complex fast-paced cross-functional global matrix environments with the ability to translate strategy into implementation

What Were Looking For

• A strategic thinker who can bring structure to complexity and turn ambiguity into clear choices plans and execution
• A commercially minded individual who challenges constructively
• A selfstarter with strong ownership and delivery mindset
• A collaborative influencer who builds trust across functions
• Curiosity and interest in media innovation sustainability and evolving marketing models

Qualifications & Skills:

Minimum Level of Education Required: Bachelors Degree

Preferred Level of Education: Masters Degree

Area of Specialisation: Procurement Business Finance Supply Chain Marketing

• Around 10 years of relevant Procurement experience preferably with significant Marketing and/or Media Procurement experience in a global organisation
• Excellent knowledge of Procurement tools such as sourcing quotation analysis contract negotiation supplier review supplier development and others
• Strong strategic capability with proven ability to define category direction build business cases secure alignment and translate strategy into executable global plans
• Demonstrated expertise in category strategy development strategy implementation stakeholder management supplier relationship management and change delivery across global and regional teams
• In-depth understanding of external environment and supplier relationship models
• Strong knowledge of finance (cost benchmark financial audit with key suppliers) and legal matters (contracting)
• Clear understanding of business value business priorities and potential implementation risks
• Significant experience working in a matrixed global/regional business environment with the ability to influence senior stakeholders and drive adoption without direct authority
• Strong networking skills and a proven ability to build productive and collaborative relationships with senior stakeholders and business partners
• Demonstrated leadership in driving change building alignment and implementing strategies through others across functions regions and business units
• Ability to prioritize multiple tasks across multiple projects using project management skills
• Strong analytical written and verbal communications and influencing skills
• Ability to work in high pressure environment often under tight deadlines
• Experience with risk management
• Motivation for professional development and willingness to coach mentor and train others

Job Posting End Date

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. Its 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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Required Experience:

Senior Manager

Employment Type : Full-Time
Experience: years
Vacancy: 1