Global Head of Product And Packaging Planning

HOLLAND AND BARRETT; London; Hybrid; GBP 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company is seeking a Global Head of Product and Packaging Planning to lead a newly formed team and drive innovation in wellness products. This hybrid role involves extensive planning, team leadership, and stakeholder engagement to ensure timely product launches across global markets.

Benefits

Employee Discount - 25%

Bonus

Pension company contribution

33 Days Holiday per year

Private Medical Care

Electric Car Scheme

Qualifications

• Extensive experience in product and packaging planning across global markets.
• Strong understanding of development and packaging RACI processes.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end planning of all product and packaging activity across markets.
• Build and lead a high-performing team, providing coaching and direction.

Skills

Leadership

Communication

Stakeholder Management

Project Management

Agile

Resilience

Tools

Monday.com

JIRA

Microsoft Office

AI Tools

Job description

Are you ready to lead the planning and delivery of an ambitious global product and packaging pipeline? At Holland & Barrett, we're transforming how we launch new wellness products - fast-tracking innovation, improving ways of working, and embedding new planning tools and governance models. As Global Head of Product and Packaging Planning you'll lead a newly formed team and play a key role in our product leadership group. This is a high-impact opportunity to build structure, drive change, and shape how we bring exciting new propositions to life across global markets.

The Role:

The Purpose of the Role:

Key Responsibilities:

• Own end-to-end planning of all product and packaging activity across markets
• Lead resource and capacity planning across functions to deliver launches on time
• Establish governance and reporting frameworks to track and communicate progress
• Build and lead a high-performing team, providing coaching, structure, and direction
• Drive adoption of new operating models, tools and cross-functional ways of working
• Coordinate dependencies and resolve conflicts across teams and senior stakeholders
• Identify and mitigate risks across the plan, with clear escalation processes
• Provide regular reporting and updates tailored to different business audiences

Location: This is a hybrid role based in London, with the requirement to be in the office at least two days per week.

The Person:

Key Requirements:

• Extensive experience in product and packaging planning across global markets
• Strong understanding of development and packaging RACI processes
• Proficient in project management tools (e.g. Monday.com, JIRA); agile/lean a plus
• Strong leadership, communication, and stakeholder management skills
• Comfortable with cross-functional complexity and executive-level engagement
• Confident leading change and embedding new planning frameworks
• Proficient in Microsoft Office and familiar with AI tools (e.g. ChatGPT)
• Resilient, organised, and goal-focused, with a passion for wellness and innovation

What we offer:

Our Benefits for this role include, but not limited to:

• H&B Employee Discount - 25%
• Bonus
• Pension company contribution
• 33 Days Holiday per year (Inclusive of bank holidays)
• Private Medical Care
• Exclusive benefits, free advice and savings from a range of retailers and providers
• Electric Car Scheme

We're passionate about helping every colleague thrive across all dimensions of wellbeing, and we're committed to having a diverse and inclusive workplace. In line with our EPIC values (Expertise, Pioneering, Inclusive, Caring), we embrace and actively celebrate all our colleagues' unique and varying experiences, backgrounds, identities and cultures - I am me, we are H&B.


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