Global Next Generation Planning & Execution Manager

Haleon plc.; Greater London; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Haleon plc. in London seeks a Global Next Gen Planning & Execution Manager to lead adoption of next-generation planning tools (Visualfabriq) and drive value realisation across Global, OU and Market teams.

You will shape backlog, manage deployments, and enable data-driven trade investments through advanced analytics. The role collaborates with the Global Customer Planning & Execution Director to deploy enhancements, ensure user adoption and align with revenue growth.

Qualifications

• Experience with trade investment management systems and end-to-end commercial processes.
• Knowledge of volume integration between Demand Planning and Sales teams and trade budgets.
• Experience with JBP tools, pricing integration, and trade spend analytics.
• Strong written and oral communication skills and documentation experience.

Responsibilities

• Product Development: gather, prioritise and document enhancement requests and process improvements.
• Product Deployment: communicate upcoming enhancements to regional teams and manage user communications.
• Product Adoption: run monthly Communities of Practice and grow global super-user engagement.
• Product Issue Resolution: work with BAU teams to resolve end-user issues.
• Product Documentation: maintain global process documents in line with delivery timelines.
• Product Testing: test new features and perform regression testing and UAT.
• Agentic AI: develop AI prompts in Visualfabriq to improve analysis and ROI.

Skills

Trade investment management

End-to-end commercial processes

Jira backlog management

Customer planning

Analytical thinking

Visualfabriq

Jira

Zendesk

Tools

Visualfabriq

Jira

Zendesk

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. What sets us apart is our unique blend of deep human understanding and trusted science.

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.

About the role

Global Next Gen Planning & Execution Manager drives the development and delivery to support Global, OU and Market teams adopt Next Gen Planning tools, processes and capabilities, specifically around TPM and Visualfabriq. This role drives global adoption and sustained value realisation of these critical platforms, fostering behavioural change and enhancing commercial performance.

Customer trade investment is one of the biggest P&L lines in Haleon Globally and so having effective and industry leading systems and processes in this area is crucial. The Customer Management pillar, within Global Commercial Excellence, is responsible for ensuring Haleon has best in class processes and systems for managing these customer plans and investments. The Global Next Generation Planning Manager works within this team, supporting the Global Customer Planning & Execution Director with the ongoing deployment and adoption of our next generation processes and systems (Visualfabriq), ensuring that they are well designed and implemented in order to fully maximise the benefit Haleon Commercial and Finance teams can extract from them.

Role Responsibilities

• Product Development. Partner with the Global Customer Planning & Execution Director & Senior Global Next Gen Planning Manager on gathering, prioritising and documenting enhancement requests and process improvements. Maintain the ongoing enhancement backlog, create demand in Jira and raise Zendesk requests. Run show and tells with the user community on new developments, gathering feedback which can be inputted back into the design of the solution.
• Product Deployment. Communicate upcoming enhancements to the regional TSM Managers and prepare and send super user communications regarding releases of new functionality and major bug fixes.
• Product Support & Adoption. Prepare and run monthly Communities of Practice meetings, to include enhancement roadmaps, sharing of best practice and general updates. Continuously improve super user engagement and build a community where global super users can benefit from sharing best practice and top tips.
• Product Issue Resolution. Where required, work directly with the technical BAU teams to investigate and resolve ongoing issues affecting global end users.
• Product Documentation. Support Global Customer Planning & Execution Director & Senior Global Next Gen Planning Manager by maintaining global process documents (Business Process Solution Design and Global Operating Procedures) in accordance with project or tech delivery timelines.
• Product Testing. Testing new features and enhancements to ensure they are working correctly before releasing to the business. Regression testing of existing functionality when required. Supporting Senior Global Next Gen Planning Manager with User Acceptance Testing (UAT).
• Agentic AI. Using the in-built AI capability within Visualfabriq, build, test and deploy standard prompts that the business teams (KAMs, Finance, NRM leads) can run to get faster and better analysis and insights, saving time while improving ROI and growing revenue. Continually work with the markets to evolve the usage of AI.

Why you?

Basic Qualifications

Experience of Trade investment management systems and end to end commercial business processes. This should include experience of 3 or more of the following areas:

• Volume integration between Demand Planning and Sales teams.
• Management of overall trade budgets and funds.
• Joint Business Planning process and trade terms management.
• Planning of short term promotions that drive consumer uplift.
• Pricing integration between Promotion Management / JBP tools used by Sales Teams and the SAP Sales & Distribution module used by Customer Service.
• Accrual Management including month end processes.
• Trade Claims Management, including AR and AP (customer as vendor) and customer dispute management.
• Customer P&L reporting and trade spend analytics (ROI’s etc).
• Experience of translating business needs into tech products or upgrades.
• Strong written and oral communication skills. This role requires frequent updates of documentation, from describing business requirements to drawing process flows.
• Strong interest in learning system functionality and integrations. While this is not a functional role, this role needs to show a keen interest in learning how our systems work and integrate with one another.

Preferred Qualifications

Experience of Trade investment management systems, preferably across multiple regions or market types (e.g. different routes to market).

Experience of commercial analytics either as a high-performing user or in previous product ownership role.

Experience of product development, either as a super-user, process owner or technical developer.

Experience on demonstrating or training others in tools or products, either as a highly regarded user within the user community or as a local product owner.

Experience with using Agentic AI tools.

Location – this role is based in: London, United Kingdom

Equal Opportunities

Haleon are committed to mobilising our purpose in a way that represents the diverse consumers and communities who rely on our brands every day. It guides us in creating an inclusive culture, where different backgrounds and views are valued and respected – all in support of understanding and best serving the needs of our consumers and unleashing the full potential of our people. It’s important to us that Haleon is a place where all our employees feel they truly belong.

During the application process, we may ask you to share some personal information, which is entirely voluntary. This information ensures we meet certain regulatory and reporting obligations and supports the development, refinement, and execution of our inclusion and belonging programmes that are open to all Haleon employees.

The personal information you provide will be kept confidential, used only for legitimate business purposes, and will never be used in making any employment decisions, including hiring decisions.

Adjustment or Accommodations Request

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