The Global Materials Strategy & Planning Manager

Haleon plc.; Greater London; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Haleon is seeking a Global Materials Strategy & Planning Manager to translate long-term production plans into a global material requirements strategy. You will align supplier capacity with business needs, create visibility for future demand, and drive centralized planning, RCCP, and IBP across regions.

You will partner with the Director, Global Planning to ensure capacity, demand and risk insights are embedded in the global S&OP/IBP cycle, leading with data-driven decisions and trade-offs.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a relevant field.
• 5+ years' operational planning experience.
• In-depth knowledge of planning processes, SAP environment.
• Experience in a global and regional matrix organisation.
• Strong networking skills with stakeholders and partners.
• Proven ability to influence senior stakeholders.
• Strong analytical and scenario-modelling skills.
• Strong financial acumen linking capacity to cost and margin.

Responsibilities

• Translate the long-term finished goods plan into detailed material requirements by spend pool and OU.
• Develop material demand outlooks and scenarios in partnership with Procurement.
• Standardise material planning assumptions and methodologies across the organisation.
• Partner with Procurement to shape supplier volume allocation strategies where scale creates value.
• Work with suppliers and Procurement teams to align capacity investment and production plans with future demand.
• Lead material allocation strategies across plants, suppliers and regions when supply is constrained.
• Identify and mitigate sourcing risks and drive trade-offs in the S&OP/IBP cycle.
• Support strategic planning through S&OP and Integrated Business Planning.

Skills

Networking

Project management

Stakeholder influence

Analytical thinking

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

SAP environment

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.

The Global Materials Strategy & Planning Manager translates long-term finished goods and production plans into a single, global material requirements strategy. Acting as the critical link between Global Planning and Procurement, the role creates visibility of future demand, aligns supplier capacity with business needs and unlocks purchasing scale through consolidated demand, strategic volume allocation and long-term supplier agreements.

You will establish a centralised, long-term material planning process, replacing fragmented site-level forecasting with a single source of truth for Procurement and supplier engagement at spend-pool level.

As a key partner to the Director, Global Planning (RCCP & S&OP), you will ensure that material and finished goods capacity, demand and risk insights are embedded in the global S&OP/IBP cycle.

In this role you will...

... build and lead global input material planning, enabling fact-based decisions and long-term supply assurance through clear capacity-to-demand visibility and proactive gap identification using Rough-Cut Capacity Planning (RCCP). Working closely with Procurement, you will combine supplier capacity intelligence with Haleon demand insights to anticipate market trends, risks and disruption. You will also develop S&OP/IBP reporting and scenario models, bringing constraints, mitigation options and decision-ready trade-offs into the monthly global S&OP/IBP process.

Key Responsibilities

Material Requirements Translation & Planning

• Translate the long-term finished goods plan (LTCP) into detailed material requirements by spend pool and OU.
• Develop material demand outlooks and scenarios in partnership with Procurement.
• Standardise material planning assumptions and methodologies across the organisation.

Supplier Allocation & Capacity Management

• Partner with Procurement to shape supplier volume allocation strategies where scale creates value.
• Work with suppliers and Procurement teams to align capacity investment and production plans with future demand.

Risk Management

• Lead material allocation strategies across plants, suppliers and regions when supply is constrained.
• Assess sourcing risks and build robust mitigation plans.
• Drive material prioritisation and allocation decisions during supply disruption.

Joint Value Creation

• Partner with Procurement, Manufacturing and Category Planning to identify and eliminate supply chain losses.
• Support strategic planning through S&OP and Integrated Business Planning (IBP).

Success Measures

• Procurement savings delivered through demand aggregation and scale.
• Stronger material availability and supply continuity.
• Improved visibility of future material requirements and stronger framework agreements that reduce material supply chain cost.
• Optimised working capital and inventory.
• Faster, better allocation decisions and reduced supply risk.

Qualifications & Skills:

• Minimum education required: Bachelor's degree
• Preferred specialisation: Procurement, Business, Finance, Supply Chain or Marketing
• 5+ years' operational planning experience
• In-depth knowledge of planning processes, particularly within an SAP environment
• Deep understanding of end-to-end supply chain planning
• Significant experience in a global and regional matrix organisation
• Strong networking skills, with a track record of building productive, collaborative relationships with stakeholders and business partners
• Proven project management skills, with the ability to prioritise multiple tasks across concurrent projects
• Ability to perform effectively in a high-pressure environment and deliver to tight deadlines
• Experience in risk management
• Working knowledge of S&OP/IBP and Rough-Cut Capacity Planning (RCCP), with the ability to turn capacity and material constraints into clear decisions and trade-offs
• Strong analytical and scenario-modelling skills, including the ability to build, run and interpret capacity, demand and risk scenarios - such as upside/downside, supply disruption and strategic shifts, and translate them into decision-ready trade-offs
• Proven ability to influence senior stakeholders and cross-functional, cross-regional teams without formal authority
• Strong financial acumen, linking capacity and material plans to cost, cash and margin impact

Job Posting End Date

2026-10-19

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.

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