Packaging and Devices Platform Head at Haleon

What you’ll be responsible for

• Delivering Supply Chain Packaging Transformation focused on simplification and driving top and bottom-line benefits in collaboration with R&D, Commercial, and Supply Chain partners.
• Building QSC global packaging expertise and acting as the key interface between R&D Packaging and Business Units.
• Defining and executing global platform sustainability priorities and roadmaps in collaboration with the Enterprise Sustainability Team and stakeholders.
• Leading the Value Engineering strategy and roadmap across short, medium, and long-term horizons to ensure global cost reduction.
• Executing VE opportunities with cross-functional teams in R&D, Commercial, and QSC, influencing senior Commercial leaders.
• Creating business cases and securing funding and resources to deliver packaging transformation, sustainability, and VE benefits.
• Building packaging, sustainability, and VE capability across the organisation and rolling out best practices to Business Units.
• Owning governance for Packaging, Sustainability, and Value Engineering global savings at QSC LT level.
• Leading serialisation execution and managing service and issue resolution.
• Leading the global production artwork team and driving continuous improvement to achieve best-in-class performance.

Qualifications and skills

Essential

• At least 10 years of experience in supply chain operational roles or packaging product development roles in FMCH, FMCG, or pharma.
• Packaging related experience in SC or R&D
• Experience in operational site leadership roles and across more than one supply chain function – Manufacturing, Planning, Procurement, Logistics, Engineering, Technical, Quality
• Proven experience and delivery of Cost Savings projects of substantive value in regional / global roles
• Financial acumen to analyse complex data across the supply chain and combine with variables to identify cost saving opportunities
• Exposure to Commercial category / markets to be able to quickly understand and evaluate impact of VE ideas on consumers / trade and develop effective approval strategies for the ideas
• Developing strategies in supply chain
• Understanding of the product development & registration processes & timelines
• Experience of leading multiple cross functional projects in matrix organisation

Preferred

• MBA or post graduate supply chain qualification