Supplier Resilience & Controls Lead

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.

We are seeking a Global Lead – Supplier Resilience & Controls to design and embed a best-in-class supplier resilience framework across the organisation. This role provides global leadership and first-line oversight to ensure critical supplier dependencies are identified, prioritised, and managed to reduce operational, financial, reputational, and regulatory risk.

The role sets the strategy and operating model for supplier resilience across direct and indirect spend, including n-tier visibility, sustainability considerations, and evolving regulatory requirements. The successful candidate will bring deep procurement and supplier risk expertise, strong governance and framework design capability, and experience influencing senior stakeholders in complex global environments.

Role scope

Framework Design & Ownership

• Design, own, and enhance the global Supplier Resilience & Controls Framework.

• Define and implement global supplier tiering and risk segmentation across direct and indirect categories.

• Set resilience risk thresholds aligned to enterprise risk appetite.

• Define pre- and post-contract resilience requirements across the supplier lifecycle.

• Align with enterprise risk, compliance, ESG, and sustainability frameworks.

• Design the supplier resilience operating model, including ownership, decision rights, hand-offs, and escalation paths.

• Embed resilience into procurement, contracting, SRM, and TPRM standards.

N-Tier Transparency & Risk Assessment

• Build a scalable approach to n-tier visibility, risk mapping, and dependency analysis.

• Use n-tier insights to identify hidden dependencies, vulnerabilities, and concentration risks.

• Incorporate human rights, forced labour, ESG, sustainability, concentration, and single-point-of-failure risks into n-tier assessments.

• Turn n-tier insights into supplier tiering, controls, diversification, and contingency plans.

• Improve visibility beyond tier 1 suppliers in line with regulatory and enterprise risk priorities.

• Evaluate and implement tools and data sources for ongoing n-tier monitoring and early warning.

Control Execution & Operational Enablement

• Embed the Supplier Resilience Framework and n-tier insights into scalable BAU supplier processes.

• Operationalise resilience controls across the supplier lifecycle, including:

• Pre-contract: due diligence and resilience and n-tier risk assessments

• Contractual: standard clauses, SLAs, and contingency and recovery requirements

• Post-contract: monitoring, reassessment, and validation of resilience measures

• Integrate resilience controls and n-tier data into procurement, TPRM, risk, and data tools.

Governance & Oversight

• Establish and lead supplier resilience governance forums and working groups.

• Define escalation paths for high-risk suppliers, major incidents, and supply chain vulnerabilities.

• Provide oversight and challenge to procurement, risk, and business stakeholders.

• Align with enterprise risk governance, crisis management, and business continuity.

Reporting & Insights

• Own reporting, dashboards, and insights on critical suppliers, resilience exposure, concentration risks, n-tier visibility, and disruption trends.

• Deliver clear insights to senior leadership to inform decisions and category strategy.

• Define metrics to track framework effectiveness, control maturity, and improvement.

Stakeholder Engagement

• Partner with Category Management, Quality, Supply Chain & Operations, Risk & Compliance, Sustainability / ESG, and Legal.

• Influence senior stakeholders to embed resilience practices in their operating models.

• Act as a recognised subject matter expert in supplier resilience.

• Support training and awareness to build resilience capability across procurement and business teams.

Key deliverables

• Own and improve the Supplier Resilience & Controls Framework.

• Provide first-line oversight and challenge to ensure consistent application of resilience requirements.

• Govern changes to resilience frameworks, methodologies, tiering logic, and controls.

• Lead change management for resilience processes, standards, guidance, and training.

• Lead resilience forums to review exposure, incidents, and remediation.

• Act as the escalation point for critical supplier resilience issues and disruption risks.

• Benchmark external best practice and regulatory developments to strengthen the framework.

• Partner with technology and data teams to improve visibility, automation, and analytics.

• Provide senior leadership with clear insight on resilience posture, concentration risk, and vulnerabilities.

• Align supplier resilience plans with enterprise risk, business continuity, and crisis management.

• Support audit activity with evidence of framework design, control effectiveness, and maturity.

• Embed emerging regulatory and resilience requirements into supplier processes.

• Lead training and communications to drive understanding and adoption.

Qualifications & Skills

• 15+ years’ experience in supplier, supply chain, or resilience risk.

• Proven experience designing and implementing enterprise-wide risk, resilience, or control frameworks.

• Experience in large, complex, global organisations.

• Experience across direct and indirect procurement categories.

• Deep knowledge of supplier resilience, TPRM, supply chain mapping, and n-tier transparency.

• Strong knowledge of ESG, human rights, forced labour regulation, and supplier due diligence.

• Experience with procurement, risk, and data platforms, including TPRM and n-tier tools.

• Strong senior stakeholder engagement and influencing skills.

• Strong analytical skills and ability to turn data into insight.

• Able to work independently across global time zones.

• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Supply Chain, Risk Management, or a related field; advanced degree preferred.

• Strategic thinker with strong framework and operating model design skills.

• Able to translate strategy into scalable processes and controls.

• Strong governance, programme management, and organisational skills.

• Strong presentation and storyboarding skills for senior audiences.

• Experience in Consumer Healthcare, FMCG, or Consumer Goods preferred.

• Proficient in Microsoft Office and reporting tools such as Power BI.

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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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