Supply Chain Planning Center of Excellence Lead
Job Summary
Job Description
- Experience in managing Integrated Business Planning (IBP) practices successfully.
- Proven track record of influencing organizational change.
5 skills required
Job Details
Hello. We’re Haleon. A new world-leading consumer health company. Shaped by all who join us. Together, we’re improving everyday health for billions 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 in control of. In an environment that we’re co-creating. And a culture that’s uniquely ours. Care to join us. It isn’t a question.
With category leading brands such as Sensodyne, Voltaren and Centrum, built on trusted science and human understanding, and combined with our passion, knowledge and expertise, we’re uniquely placed to do this and to grow a strong, successful business.
This is an exciting time to join us and help shape the future. It’s an opportunity to be part of something special.
About the role
The Supply Chain Planning Center of Excellence Lead is a new leadership opportunity in our recently formed Supply Chain Planning Centre of Excellence (CoE) organization that will foster innovation and explore new technologies. In this role, you will lead an organization with the focus on Integrated Business Planning (IBP) and End-to-End (E2E) Planning across Haleon. This role presents a compelling opportunity for those eager to evolve into broader, globally impactful responsibilities.
We’re on an exciting transformation journey, focused on planning excellence, inventory optimization, customer satisfaction, and gaining a competitive advantage within our Business Units and Planning Service Centres (PSC).
Your leadership in Supply Chain Planning, Data, and IBP adoption will make you a key architect to what success looks like. If you’re passionate about supply chain innovation and want to make a difference in a fast-paced, purpose-driven organization, we’d love to hear from you. This position is based in London, United Kingdom and reports to the E2E Planning Excellence Head.
Key Responsibilities
Supply Chain Planning Leadership
Transform our Supply Chain planning processes and capabilities, including skills and solutions. You bring leadership, depth and breadth operational expertise, regional insights and process experience that are essential to shaping a COE model that truly serves and scales.
Define key priorities, set performance targets and KPIs, and establish a comprehensive framework for enhancing effectiveness across the entire end-to-end supply chain planning organization.
Foster a Continuous Improvement (CI) mindset to ensure ongoing evolution and alignment with organizational goals.
Own and audit E2E Planning Self-Assessment Guidelines, periodically reviewing planning organizations against them, while ensuring 100% compliance.
Partner with key stakeholders in the function and across regional finance and commercial teams to architect best practices and capabilities to effect change at a leadership level.
Drive break-through improvements based on established sound fundamental processes.
Oversee the global planning transformation roadmap and ensure local adoption to global standards.
Bring the outside best industry practices to the Supply Chain Planning organization. Prioritize use cases to grow the business together cross functional teams.
Talent Development
Lead and inspire a team of 10 E2E supply chain planning global process owners, this role will drive Planning excellence with our 6 Regional Planning Leads and influence and partner with regional supply chain VP’s.
Lead talent strategy for CoE and Supply Chain Planning and planning service centres.
Lead change management and capability development programs.
Design the Planning Academy and onboarding training plans.
Qualifications and skills
A minimum of Bachelor’s degree, majoring in business or engineering as well as a certification in supply chain is desired.
10 years of experience in managing Integrated Business Planning (IBP) practices successfully.
Transformation Leadership: Proven track record of influencing organizational change by collaborating with senior stakeholders to drive strategic transformation initiatives.
Thought Leadership: Demonstrated ability to use strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with a focus on data-driven decision-making on a global scale influencing senior management.
People Leadership: Proven capacity to inspire and manage high-performing teams effectively while building a knowledge sharing culture.
E2E Planning Mastery: Thorough understanding of end-to-end planning, lean principles, and their financial implications.
Process Excellence: Ability to maintain industry-leading standards and implement best practices for operational efficiency through new technology solutions.
Capability Development: Track record of building and scaling training programs to enhance team capabilities.
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Diversity, Equity and Inclusion
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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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.
As you apply, we will ask you to share some personal information, which is entirely voluntary. We want to have an opportunity to consider a diverse pool of qualified candidates and this information will assist us in meeting that objective and in understanding how well we are doing against our inclusion and diversity ambitions. We would really appreciate it if you could take a few moments to complete it. Rest assured, Hiring Managers do not have access to this information and we will treat your information confidentially.
Haleon is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive equal consideration for employment without regard to race, color, national origin, religion, sex, pregnancy, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, age, disability, genetic information, military service, covered/protected veteran status or any other federal, state or local protected class.
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