Business Process Expert - IBP (Plan to Forecast)

gsknch; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Haleon seeks a Business Process Expert (IBP E2E Planning) to lead end-to-end planning design and governance. You will partner with SAP IBP and S/4 teams to shape process roadmaps and ensure value delivery across Supply Chain, Commercial, and Finance.

You will facilitate workshops, document to-be processes, and drive alignment across programmes while maintaining rigorous governance and change control to realise benefits.

Responsibilities

• Partner closely with the SAP IBPAPS programme to align process, data, and governance outcomes.
• Ensure the evolving end-to-end planning operating model remains coherent across programmes, recognising that elements of "to be" design are already defined and focusing effort on gap closure, standardisation, and usability.
• Drive clarity on how the E2E Planning and IBP processes integrate across Supply Chain, Commercial, and Finance and how these processes are enabled by SAP S/4 (ERP) and SAP IBP (APS).
• Own the process-led definition of critical integration touchpoints between SAP S/4 and SAP IBP, ensuring they support planning accuracy, timeliness, and auditability.
• Collaborate with the BPO and relevant functions to ensure design meets requirements and strategic objectives.
• Facilitate workshops to gather input, feedback, and socialise recommendations with functions to refine and finalise process design.
• Document "to be" processes and evaluate "as is" processes identifying bottlenecks, inefficiencies, and duplication.
• Drive governance decisions and ensure timely communication to stakeholders.
• Align designs with programme timelines and milestones and coordinate with interdependent programmes.
• Review and translate existing process design outputs into Plan to Forecast value stream standards and documentation.

Job description

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.

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.

The Enterprise Transformation Programme is a multi-year journey focused on transforming the Haleon business building an organisation that is wired for excellence to be able to deliver our 'Win as One' strategy and drive growth through continuous improvement. The programme aims to strengthen the heartbeat of our business enabling us to become more agile, efficient, and innovative and is enabled through SAP S/4HANA. The Business Process Expert partners with Business Process Owners and functional teams to design, govern, and continuously improve end-to-end business processes.

Detailed Responsibilities

Business Process Experts (BPE) are responsible for shaping, measuring and continuously improving process elements to deliver business value. The role partners with the Business Process Owner (BPO) and other BPEs to manage the current process (including ensuring proposed changes are aligned to the intended future state), define the future end‑to‑end process vision and roadmap, ensuring high‑quality, well‑controlled and user‑centric processes are created, and drive the transition from current state to future state through disciplined execution, strong governance and effective change delivery. They support the BPO in maximising value delivery through rigorous performance management, adoption oversight and continuous improvement activities, to ensuring that committed benefits are realised and sustained.

Responsibilities specific to the BPE - IBP E2E Planning:

• - Partner closely with the SAP IBP APS programme to align process, data, and governance outcomes.
• - Ensure the evolving end-to‑end planning operating model remains coherent across programmes, recognising that elements of "to be" design are already defined and focusing effort on gap closure, standardisation, and usability rather than redesigning from scratch.
• - Drive clarity on how the E2E Planning and IBP processes integrate across Supply Chain, Commercial, and Finance and how these processes are enabled by the combined landscape of SAP S/4 (ERP) and SAP IBP (APS) .
• - Own the process‑led definition of critical integration touchpoints between SAP S/4 and SAP IBP (e.g., planning master data, product/location hierarchies, calendars, key figures, and inbound/outbound interfaces), ensuring they support planning accuracy, timeliness, and auditability.

Design Plan and Coordination:

• - Collaborate with the BPO and the relevant function(s)/operating units to ensure design meets requirements and strategic objectives.
• - Facilitate workshops to gather input, feedback, and socialise recommendations made with the functions/operating units to refine and finalise process design in partnership with the BPO and other BPEs.
• - Collaborate with the BPO to document "to be" processes; and support evaluation of "as is" processes identifying bottle necks, inefficiencies, and duplication.
• - Drive decisions through relevant governance forums, ensuring decisions are communicated to stakeholders in a timely manner.
• - Align designs with programme timelines and milestones, ensuring coordination with other functional areas and interdependent programmes.
• - Review and validate existing process design outputs from the SAP IBP APS implementation programme (process flows, design decisions, templates, roles), and translate them into the Plan to Forecast value stream standards and documentation set.
• - Lead identification and resolution of process/design gaps created by running multiple change initiatives (e.g., differences in planning calendars, hierarchy definitions, roles/RACI, and KPI calculations) and drive alignment through agreed governance.
• - Define and document the end-to‑end process steps and controls that depend on S/4 and IBP integration, including ownership of data objects and decision points across systems (what is planned in IBP vs executed/recorded in S/4).
• - Coordinate cross-functional agreement on standard demand planning concepts that must be consistently implemented in IBP (e.g., baseline vs uplift logic, event assumptions, forecast versioning, bias management, and exception rules).
• - Ensure process design includes explicit requirements