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 Senior Operations Lead, Growth Platform is a pivotal leadership role responsible for driving operational excellence to manage planning across the growth platforms. This position provides strategic oversight of financial process—including Long-Range Planning (LRP) and Annual Business Planning (ABP)—while managing the Platform performance P&Ls and the forecasting process with the category demand planners including managing the A&P and annual budget process.

Key Responsibilities:

Strategic Oversight & Stakeholder Influence

• Lead platform business cases and driving progress against strategic and performance KPIs including ongoing local and global dashboards.

Financial Planning & Performance Monitoring

• Own the Long-Range Planning and Annual Business Planning processes for GCC.

• Deliver monthly performance reports to the teams and influence YTG forecast working closely with the categories

• Manage budget and ensuring alignment with strategic priorities.

The ideal candidate thrives in a growth mindset, dynamic, cross-functional environment, bringing a proactive mindset to identify risks, opportunities, and trade-offs that drive portfolio performance and long-term business growth.

*This role is based in Warren, NJ, and follows a hybrid model, requiring an in-office presence of 3 days per week.

Why you?

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree

• Exceptional analytical acumen, financial P&L management, storytelling capability, and the ability to connect the dots across complex data sets to influence senior stakeholders.

• 5+ years of experience in analytics, insights, strategy, finance, or related fields (CPG or consumer health preferred)

• Experience working with forecasting, financial planning, or demand planning processes

• Advanced Excel skills; experience with market data (e.g., Nielsen, Circana) and consumer panel data (e.g., Numerator)

• Demonstrated success operating in cross-functional, matrixed environments

Preferred qualifications:

• Growth Mindset, Ability to thrive in ambiguity, ability to move with speed, strong personal and communication skills and resilience.

• Strong ability to connect disparate data into a cohesive enterprise narrative

• Excellent communication and storytelling skills, especially with senior audiences

• Comfort navigating ambiguity and leading through complex, evolving business questions

• Highly collaborative mindset with the ability to influence across functions and levels

• Strong leadership and coaching capabilities with a focus on developing others

The salary range for this role is:  $142,282   - 195,637 USD annually plus an annual bonus.

Benefits

Haleon offers a robust Total Reward package that consists of competitive pay and a comprehensive benefits program.  This includes a generous 401(k) plan, tuition reimbursement and time off programs including 6 months paid parental leave.  On day one, you are eligible for benefits, including our healthcare programs where the company pays for the majority of your medical coverage for you and your family.  We also offer the opportunity to receive a discretionary bonus based on the achievement of key business performance and other incentive/recognition programs as part of the offering.

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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.

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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Use subject line: ‘Haleon Careers: Job Accommodation Request’ 

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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.