CMO Manager

About Haleon:

Hello. We’re Haleon. A new world-leading consumer healthcare company. Shaped by all of us. Together, we’re improving everyday health for millions of people. By growing and innovating our global portfolio of category-leading brands – including Sensodyne, Panadol, Advil, Voltaren, Theraflu, Otrivin, and Centrum – through a unique combination of deep human understanding and trusted science. What’s more, we’re achieving it in a company that we’re building together. In an environment that we’re co-creating. And a culture that’s uniquely ours. Care to join us. It isn’t a question.

Job Purpose:

To lead contract manufacturing operations, focusing on efficient scheduling, material planning, and team communication. To balance supply and demand, manage inventory, and ensure compliance, while driving supplier performance and supporting new product launches to enhance overall supply chain efficiency.

Key Responsibilities:

• Assume Line Manager/People Leadership responsibilities for a Contract Manufacturing Operations team, ensuring effective process management and standards confirmation across all aspects of Material Scheduling.
• Develop and implement production schedules for key work centers, focusing on a 0–6-week horizon to ensure optimal production flow and timely delivery.
• Oversee material requirement planning (MRP) for both local and imported raw and packaging materials, ensuring availability for a 6-month production schedule (MPS).
• Lead Supply Review Meetings (SRM) and Order Fulfillment Meetings (OFM) with CMO site teams to ensure timely and transparent communication regarding material availability and production status.
• Manage material rejections, vendor damages, and write-offs, providing monthly reports to Finance and implementing corrective actions to minimize losses.
• Direct all planning-related aspects of NPI projects, collaborating with cross-functional teams to ensure smooth transitions and timely product launches.
• Report critical supply chain issues and escalate unresolved problems to management promptly.
• Balance supply and demand by optimizing inventory to ensure the timely availability of finished goods as per demand.
• Ensure the timely availability of Sub Con Orders from the SAP system, considering available capacities and constraints at both sites, with daily and weekly follow-ups on production targets.
• Collaborate with the Production team to meet daily and monthly targets based on commercial requirements.
• Coordinate with Supply, Demand Planning, and CSC Teams as needed.
• Coordinate with JMS site logistics team to ensure timely material transfers from 3P warehouses, material ordering, and custom clearance related to CMO production.
• Coordinate with the Institutional team on scheduling & development of tender orders as per institutional requirements.
• Manage actions in CHAMPS/ESCAPE to drive artwork revisions with minimal write-offs.
• Administer Master Data for the CMO Site in SAP, including BOM extensions, code creation, and functional approvals.
• Lead the inventory management process to meet global targets, ensuring materials connectivity.
• Have knowledge related to import operations, bank contracts/LC, and clearance processes.
• Coordinate with JMS site and CMO team to ensure month-end activities are carried out without any gap.
• Ensure compliance with GMP (Good Manufacturing Practices), Quality, and other related policies, guidelines, and requirements as applicable by law and Haleon Corporate Guidelines.
• Undertake various tasks as required to adapt to changing business priorities.
• Measure supplier performance and various Key Performance Indicators (MERP - On Time in Full), driving performance improvement.
• Lead root cause analysis and problem-solving for provision and stock write-offs.
• Work collaboratively with other Inbound functions to generate the Inbound Schedule.
• Support self-inspection, problem-solving, and identifying corrective actions to improve performance.

Skills and Competencies:

• Business Graduate or Engineer (B.E)
• 3-5 years of relevant experience
• Experience with procurement and manufacturing systems
• Experience with quality and employee health & safety (EHS) standards
• Experience working in a Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP) environment
• Supply Chain Management Professional Certification (will be preferred)
• Strong interpersonal, leadership and influencing skills
• Good working knowledge of Supply Chain & Materials Management processes

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Why Join Us?

The future of everyday health is changing. And we’re the people changing it. In front of us is an incredible opportunity to go beyond what any of us have done before. And make everyday health more achievable, more inclusive and more sustainable. For more and more people.

So join us, as we build one of the world’s leading consumer healthcare companies. Join us to innovate our category-leading brands. To better understand people’s everyday health needs. To tackle the biggest barriers that stand in their way. To change individual and societal behavior.

In our efforts to further tackle barriers that may be standing in our way, we have implemented what we call a Hybrid Working model, known as Home office. Home office in the country of employment is permitted for all employees whose position allows it. The employee and the manager agree on the circumstances in which working from the office is required and in which the employee can work remotely or specific local arrangements. This helps us with ensuring that we maintain a healthy work-life balance, and give our best to our people.

Join us to work with colleagues who share your restless energy. To explore your interests. To stretch yourself to do the best work of your career. And join us, as together we build a working experience that encourages us all to lead happier, healthier, more productive lives.

The way we see it, every day is an opportunity for better. And we’re going all in to realize it.

Care to join us. Find out what life at Haleon is really like www.haleon.com/careers/

At Haleon we embrace our diverse workforce by creating an inclusive environment that celebrates our unique perspectives, generates curiosity to create unmatched understanding of each other, and promotes fair and equitable outcomes for everyone. We're striving to create a climate where we celebrate our diversity in all forms by treating each other with respect, listening to different viewpoints, supporting our communities, and creating a workplace where your authentic self belongs and thrives. We believe in an agile working culture for all our roles. If flexibility is important to you, we encourage you to explore with our hiring team what the opportunities are.

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