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Dubai, United Arab Emirates

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Dubai, United Arab Emirates

Established in July 2022 as a corporate spin-off from GSK, Haleon is the largest consumer healthcare company in the world with leading brands such as Sensodyne, Centrum and Panadol.Relocated from Egypt to Dubai to establish the Haleon business in North and Central Africa, I recruited and developed the teams (including Country Managers) to drive Haleon business across 14 markets in Africa including Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Egypt, Ivory Coast, Senegal and Cameroon.During this time, I successfully led the spin-off of Haleon from GSK in all the markets under my responsibility and created the Haleon local operating company in Egypt.As General Manager for a newly established geography, I setup an ambitious growth plan by market, put in place a dedicated innovation plan to fuel the growth and developed new supply routes including establishing new agreements with local partners (distributors and manufacturers). This resulted in achieving one of the fastest growths globally for Haleon.

Cairo, Egypt

Relocated from London to Cairo to take on the General Manager role for GSK Consumer Healthcare business in Egypt.Developed and implemented a strong turnaround plan covering all areas of the business to improve performance, profitability, growth, team engagement and talents attraction.This resulted in becoming the biggest Consumer Healthcare company in Egypt (doubling in size) and one of the fastest growing consumer markets for GSK.Initiated an ambitious manufacturing and new product launch plan as well, with a strong innovation ratio. Attracted and retained high calibre team members joining from different industries and geographies to create a highly motivated and ambitious team.

London, United Kingdom

Following the creation of the “new” GSK Consumer Healthcare (JV between GSK and Novartis in 2015), I relocated to London and lead Global Procurement for the new company.My primary objective was to integrate the 2 existing legacy procurement organisations into one talented and impactful team capable of delivering the ambitious synergy program that was committed to by the JV.I created a highly impactful Procurement team (90 FTEs globally) attracting new talents to the organisation and delivering a strong procurement synergy plan achieving the doubling of the savings (2016: +100% vs. 2014).I setup a new role and objective for Procurement team members to act as business leaders working hand in hand with other business function leaders to accelerate business growth and profitability. We opened new categories of spend such as Sales outsourcing services and Supplier enabled innovations allowing GSK Consumer business to prioritize further it’s resources and achieve more return on it’s spend.Having an ambition to continue grow and develop beyond Procurement, I was given the opportunity to “double hat” and lead another commercial organisation: The global Media operations team. This role allowed me to stretch and develop further my commercial capabilities. Partnering with the CMO, we established a new ambition for GSK Consumer digital capabilities and setup the first Global partnerships between a Healthcare company and Google, Facebook and Amazon allowing us to be one of the first companies to create our own “Tech Stack”. I as well helped draft the first eCommerce global ambition for GSK Consumer Healthcare in 2017. These JBPs are still in place today and continue to contribute to the success of Haleon’s business.Joined a CEO sponsored program for General Managers’ development.

Greater Philadelphia Area

Having successfully created a brand-new Procurement organisation for GSK Vaccines and demonstrated my ability to establish strong business partnerships while performing in new business areas (R&D and Vaccines), I was promoted to VP reporting directly to GSK global CPO.Relocated to Philadelphia, to lead a turnaround of GSK Corporate Services Procurement (60 team members) - in charge of all the Procurement GSK can perform centrally and deploy globally. Worked on developing new objectives, run a reorganisation and attracted and developed key talents into the function (+50% change). Aligned the procurement strategies to the business objectives and priorities which then contributed to a larger saving delivery +70%.By 2014, I increased the scope of my team to cover new areas of responsibilities including Facility management and global Supplier Relationship Management.Led Procurement overall talent acquisition program allowing the successful recruitment of 100+ FTEs globally and the deployment of GSK new Procurement organisation.

Brussels, Brussels Region, Belgium

Joined GSK Vaccines to help develop the maturity of its newly created procurement organisation.Partnering with the R&D head, I established a new multicultural team responsible for optimising GSK Vaccines spend in R&D and Clinical services. Attracted key talents from diverse industries and geographies.Improved the internal vendor management capabilities resulting into stronger performance delivery, year on year savings (+7%) and increased outsourcing levels (+65%).Lead a Working Capital Trade Payable improvement program which helped generate more than £77m cash. Recognised by a presidency award.

London Area, United Kingdom

Logistics Procurement Manager. Responsible for defining and implementing the strategies for Logistic services procurement accross Europe.Led the consolidation of the logistics Procurement organisation for South and Western Europe into one high performing team delivering key transformational projects for MARS business in Europe such as the selection and negotiation of a contract for the construction of MARS largest distribution warehouse in the UK.

Strasbourg, Grand Est, France

IT Procurement managerDeveloped and implemented the IT resourcing strategy resulting in the selection and appointment of MARS first IT Business Offshoring relationship with an Indian partner.Designed new negotiation strategies (Bid summit, software auctions) and deployed them globallyDeployed Finance and Supply chain systems for MARS affiliates in Europe and oversaw the first system “Fast-Track” implementation (Corporate Finance project delivered on time and budget)

IT Procurement manager for MasterfoodsGlobal procurement of IT resources including management of Offshore Indian supplier.Global procurement of IT applications, Hardware and Services.Manage global supplier relationships and negotiate agreements.