Demand Planning Lead

Haleon; New Jersey; On-site; USD 105,000 - 157,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Total rewards package

401(k) plan

Tuition reimbursement

Parental leave

Health care coverage

Discretionary bonus

Job summary

Haleon in Warren, NJ onsite three days a week is seeking a Demand Planning Lead to align Haleon supply chains with the business and lead collaboration across Sales, Marketing, Finance and Supply Chain to improve forecast accuracy and KPI delivery.

You will own demand forecasting, S&OP/IBP processes, and drive data-driven decisions using Excel and Power BI, with a focus on risk/opportunity management, lifecycle events and strong cross-functional leadership.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree.
• Minimum 3+ years of related professional experience.
• Strong analytical skills and ability to lead data-driven decisions.

Responsibilities

• Maintain relationships with commercial teams and counterparts to understand full supply chain impact.
• Generate and analyze baseline forecasts to ensure robust demand signals.
• Support demand shaping through market intelligence and lifecycle management with supply chain and commercial teams.
• Analyze demand trends and the competitive landscape.
• Consolidate demand, scenarios, and assumptions for the Demand Review Meeting.
• Monitor plans for promotions and new products with commercial teams to evaluate plan effectiveness.
• Identify risks and opportunities to the forecast and elevate to commercial teams.
• Own shared KPIs: forecast accuracy, bias, OTIF, daily sales conformance, customer metrics.

Skills

Analytical skills

Power BI

MS Excel

Communication skills

Leadership

Relationship building

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Tools

Excel

Power BI

MS Office

Job description

About the role

The Demand Planning Lead is a crucial part of our Supply Chain team, reporting to the Demand Planning Manager. As the Demand Planning Lead, you will be responsible for aligning the Haleon supply chains more closely with the businesses and leading collaboration across Sales, Marketing, Finance and Supply Chain for Haleon. You will drive excellence in demand forecasting, S&OP, IBP and ensure efficiency in the delivery of critical KPIs across a complex network.

Role Responsibilities

• Maintain high-quality relationships with commercial teams and QSC counterparts to fully understand the whole supply chain and impact of decisions made.
• Generate and analyze baseline forecast to ensure robust & realistic demand signals.
• Supports demand shaping through market intelligence and drives product life cycle management in close collaboration with supply chain functions and commercial organization.
• Analysis of demand trends and the competitive landscape.
• Consolidate demand, scenarios, and assumptions to validate aggregated forecast to be brought into the Demand Review Meeting.
• Monitor demand plans for promotions and new products, working closely with the commercial teams to ensure the plan effectiveness is evaluated & linked into demand plans.
• Identify risk and opportunities to the demand forecast and elevate to the commercial teams.
• Accountable for shared Key Performance Indicators (Forecast Accuracy, Forecast Bias, On Time in Full (OTIF), Daily Sales Conformance, Customer Metrics/Feedback).

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree.
• Minimum 3+ years of related professional experience.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with exporting and manipulating large data sets within Excel and familiarity with key formulas (VLOOKUP, XLOOKUP, PIVOT, SUMIFS etc.).
• Individual contributor who works independently with minimal supervision.
• Highly developed analytical skills.
• Ability to be proactive in leading and managing information and data from the supply chain organization.
• Organizational skills with excellent attention to detail.
• Strong written and communication skills.
• Leadership and influencing skills.
• Relationship builder.
• Strong awareness of customer impact to demand signals.
• Strong problem solving and negotiation skills.
• Ability to apply strategic and lateral thinking to deliver large scale network solutions.
• Familiarity with Power BI and MS Office Programs (Word, Excel, PPT).

Location

This role is located onsite, 3 days a week at our Warren, NJ headquarters. The expected salary range will be $104,505 - $156,757.

Benefits

• A robust Total Reward package that consists of competitive pay and a comprehensive benefits program.
• A generous 401(k) plan.
• Tuition reimbursement.
• Time off programs including 6 months paid parental leave.
• Health care programs where the company pays for the majority of your medical coverage for you and your family.
• Opportunity to receive a discretionary bonus based on the achievement of key business performance and other incentive/recognition programs as part of the offering.

Job Posting End Date

2026-11-16

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. Please note that if you are a US Licensed Healthcare Professional or Healthcare Professional as defined by the laws of the state issuing your license, Haleon may be required to capture and report expenses Haleon incurs, on your behalf, in the event you are afforded an interview for employment. This capture of applicable transfers of value is necessary to ensure Haleon’s compliance to all federal and state US Transparency requirements.

Accommodation Requests

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• Your Name and contact information
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Note to candidates

The Haleon recruitment team will contact you using a Haleon email account (@haleon.com). If you are not sure whether the email you received is from Haleon, please get in touch.

Company Introduction

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.