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 

This Analyst role is an exciting opportunity to become a key member of the Global Corporate Development (M&A, BD&L) team based in London, focused on inorganic growth opportunities across our three categories (OTC, Wellness and Oral Care), on a global basis. This role will provide a broad exposure to the origination, evaluation and execution of a variety of transaction types, working collaboratively with leaders of our strategy, category, regional units and central functions.  

The analyst will be involved across strategic assessment, target evaluation and diligence, business and financial analysis, transaction structuring and integration, as well as the preparation of high-quality materials for senior management and the Board. This includes interaction with external parties such as transaction counterparts, legal, financial and other advisors.  

You will be enhancing your corporate finance and M&A skills over time, within a fast-paced environment.  

Key Responsibilities 

• Supporting a broad range of inorganic growth projects across Haleon globally, from early-stage strategic assessment, target screening, evaluation, origination through due diligence, execution, and integration. 

• Building, developing, and maintaining business and financial models and providing clear insights to support decision-making for senior stakeholders 

• Developing and refining market landscapes and target lists across our categories (Oral Care, OTC, Wellness) and regions (Europe, MeNa, North America, LatAm, India and AsiaPac). 

• Co-ordinating cross-functional workstreams with Finance, Tax, Treasury, IR, legal and other teams as required on a project-by-project basis  

• Preparing high-quality materials for senior management and the Board.  

• Reviewing business cases to understand, challenge, benchmark and sensitise key commercial and financial assumptions. Extracting and analysing internal and external financial, operational and market data to identify, validate trends and potential synergies to support strategic and transaction decisions  

• Supporting the team on transaction execution across a variety of workstreams, including due diligence, adviser co-ordination, valuation and preparation of materials for internal approvals  

Essential: 

• Two years of M&A experience as an Analyst at a leading investment bank 

• Strong analytical capabilities, with the ability to build robust, flexible and well-structured models and understanding of financial statements (P&L, B/S and CF) 

• Practical understanding of the drivers, purpose and implications of various valuation techniques (ROIC, DCF, LBO, multiples) 

• Understanding of company capital structures, financing instruments and the financial effects of transactions for a listed company 

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to distil analysis into clear recommendations for senior stakeholders 

• High levels of accuracy, judgement and attention to detail, together with the resilience to deliver high-quality work under tight deadlines 

• Advanced Excel skills, PowerPoint and AI skills 

Preferred: 

• Experience in M&A execution and the Consumer Health sector. 

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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

If you require a reasonable adjustment or accommodation or other assistance to apply for a job at Haleon at any stage of the application process, please let your recruiter know by providing them with a description of specific adjustments you are requesting. We’ll provide all reasonable adjustments to support you throughout the recruitment process and treat all information you provide us in confidence. 

Note to candidates

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