Product Expert- Procurement

Product Expert Procurement

Hello. We’re Haleon. A new world-leading consumer health company. We’re shaped by all who join us and together we’re improving everyday health for billions of people. We do this through a unique combination of deep human understanding and trusted science which allows us to grow and innovate our global portfolio of category-leading brands including Sensodyne, Panadol, Advil, Voltaren, Theraflu, Otrivin, and Centrum.

We’re creating a culture that’s uniquely ours, combining passion, knowledge and expertise to build a strong and successful business. This is an exciting time to join us and help shape the future.

We operate across global markets and deliver technology through centralised and distributed teams. As a new company formed from separating from GSK we’ve been able to deliver significant transformation into a cloud first organisation, but there is much still to do. Our technology teams span a number of areas:

- CTO
- Digital Technology Information Security (DTIS)
- Quality and Supply Chain
- Corporate Finance
- Manufacturing Execution Systems (MES) and Manufacturing ERP
- Commercial ERP (CERPS)
- Customer Sales and Marketing
- HR

ABOUT THE ROLE

The Product Expert-Procurement with the Service Assurance team within the CTO organisation will work mainly with Procurement & Finance business teams (who drive various sourcing, contract mgmt. and buying business processes), Tech Product teams and 3rd parties to ensure proper technical design, implementation, and support for Tech solutions\products. The Product Expert also partners with other Tech teams across CH Tech for the architectural set up, system integrations and deployment of Tech products.

The Product Expert will provide technical guidance and advice to both the Product Manager - Finance & Procurement as part of a solutions-fit and options assessment (Viability, Desirability, Feasibility) with a focus on feasibility. They will have technical expertise in the areas specific to the product domain they are working on and be accountable for technical artefacts such as systems requirements, solutions design and security & privacy reviews.

**Responsibilities**:
This role will provide YOU the opportunity to lead key activities to progress YOUR career, these responsibilities include some of the following.
- Technical Configuration/Customization: Work with third-party solutions providers, developers and CH Tech Technology/Platform partners to conduct technical configuration/customization of solutions that meet our customer's needs and above all provide a great user experience to our employees.
- Product Domain: Understand the product domain from a technology perspective but also understand how the technology adds value to the adjacent business processes & areas and helping to manage & assess incoming demand as part of a product backlog.
- Governance & Product Assessment: Take part in technical governance and oversight of product development across a product domain. Support Product team in the assessment of technology solutions and collaborating with vendors to influence future extensions of their product.
- Integrations: Ensure data passing from upstream / downstream systems (e.g. SAP ERP) through integration is efficient, accurate and secure. This also includes building reporting capabilities that support both operational reporting as well as analytic reporting.
- Change & Release management: Manage change activity, including Software as a Service delivered change & high adoption of product features, into the production service in a compliant and efficient manner.
- Process Improvement: Drive ongoing product and technical improvements adopting a mixture of delivery methodologies where appropriate - but focusing on Value to the customers (i.e. our employees) and opportunities to making their lives easier through both process & system simplification & optimisation.
- Quality, Risk & Compliance: Accountable for ensuring all products supporting the business are compliant with internal security, risk management policies and practices, external regulatory and statutory requirements e.g. GxP, SARBOX and that Tech continuity plans are in place for all business-critical products.
- Data Protection: Develop a sound knowledge of GSK policies and processes regarding protection of sensitive data.

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

Why you?

Basic Qualifications:

- Extensive experience with Ariba (upstream and downstream modules: Ariba Sourcing, Contract Mgmt, Spend Analysis, Buying \ guided buying modules and SAP Cloud Integration Gateway) & related systems configuration and IT project management, system consulting & business analysis
- Deep content knowledge of respective functional area (business operating models, processes & products), e.g. buying goods & services, sourcing & contract management
- Knowledge of end to end processes & Cross Functional process