Hello. We’re Haleon. A new world-leading consumer health company. Shaped by all who join us. Together, we’re improving everyday health for billions of people. By growing and innovating our global portfolio of category-leading brands – including Sensodyne, Panadol, Advil, Voltaren, Theraflu, Otrivin, and Centrum – through a unique combination of deep human understanding and trusted science. What’s more, we’re achieving it in a company that we’re in control of. In an environment that we’re co-creating. And a culture that’s uniquely ours. Care to join us. It isn’t a question.
This is an exciting time to join us and help shape the future. It’s an opportunity to be part of something special.
The Finance Director Haleon Strategy will play a critical role in driving Haleon’s strategy to outperform the market and deliver on our growth ambitions. Our strategy is designed to leverage our portfolio and capabilities and has four key elements:
1. Increasing household penetration.
2. Capitalizing on new and emerging growth opportunities in channels, geographies and through portfolio expansion.
3. Focusing on execution and financial discipline, to improve profitability and sustain reinvestment in sold growth opportunities.
4. Running a responsible business, which allows us to reduce risk and support performance.
This role will provide YOU the opportunity to lead key activities to progress YOUR career, these responsibilities include some of the following…
As the key finance partner in Haleon, you’ll partner with the Strategy, IR and M&A teams to determine strategic value and choices in front of Haleon. You will play a critical role in driving our strategic planning and investment choices with senior stakeholders across the organisation, which includes:
* Working as a key additional finance member to support the Strategy function to deliver and govern a range of high value-at-stake strategic projects, e.g. new growth opportunity evaluations, M&A, geographic expansion, penetration. This includes extensive support throughout the long-range planning process to ensure the strategic choices and options are considered properly.
* Working with the BU / Functions and Categories to develop medium to long range strategic plans, leveraging deep sector expertise (e.g. key strategic drivers, trends and competitive insights) to help shape these outlooks.
* Bringing finance capability, governance, and financial acumen to the continual evolution of the Haleon value creation framework - to build organisation capability in short & long-term decision making.
* Working with the CFO, CEO and FLT to define the haleon capital allocation strategy and key choices (e.g. dividend policy, share buy backs, capital investment and M&A).
* Working across internal and external groups to bring competitor benchmarks and intelligence to Haleon, in order to strengthen understanding of prevailing investor expectations and focus areas, and to inform strategic choices for Haleon.
* Leveraging specialist knowledge of investors and financial institutions to frame the key strategic options against which the HET must make choices.
* Partnering with business leaders in crafting clear narratives and high-quality papers and presentations for the Board, and where required, external stakeholders in partnership with Investor Relations.
* Working with leaders in Finance and BU Leaders to elevate the organisation’s use of the external perspectives from investors and financial institutions to sharpen decision making.
Why you?
Basic Qualifications:
We are looking for professionals with these required skills to achieve our goals:
* Prior experience in Financial Services operating in research/analysis/advisory type roles or with transferable experience from within CPG environment.
* Deep sector knowledge of the Global CPG market and how the external market makes investment choices in equity related strategies is essential.
* Strong communication and interpersonal skills, ability to influence through matrix organisation at all levels.
* Able to present/story-tell to senior stakeholders up to CET/board level.
* Proven ability to communicate a compelling and inspired vision or sense of core purpose.
* Expertise in complex financial modelling, forecasting and strategic planning, and KPI management – with the ability to build this capability within Haleon, and drive impact through processes.
* Advise on value creation – short/mid/long term goals.
* Exceptional analytical skills with proven ability to synthesize complex data in to actionable insights.
* Encourages a culture of innovation, actively engaging the business to brainstorm and implement creative solutions to complex problems.
* Challenges conventional approaches and introduces fresh perspectives to enhance business outcomes.
* Ability to distil down complex information and strategic concepts into simple and compelling narratives to a wide range of stakeholders.
* Proven self-starter with ability to balance conflicting priorities and work on multiple activities in parallel. The role can cover daily operational deliverables and longer-term strategic projects requiring the management of multiple streams of work to deliver results.
* Able to demonstrate a deep understanding of customer needs by prioritising actions and solutions with the customer at the forefront.
APPLICATION CLOSING DATE – 2nd May 2025.
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Why Join Us?
The future of everyday health is changing. And we’re the people changing it. In front of us is an incredible opportunity to go beyond what any of us have done before. And make everyday health more achievable, more inclusive and more sustainable. For more and more people. So, join us, as we build one of the world’s leading consumer healthcare companies. Join us to innovate our category-leading brands. To better understand people’s everyday health needs. To tackle the biggest barriers that stand in their way. To change individual and societal behaviour. Join us to work with colleagues who share your restless energy. To explore your interests. To stretch yourself to do the best work of your career. And join us, as together we build a working experience that encourages us all to lead happier, healthier, more productive lives. The way we see it, every day is an opportunity for better. And we’re going all in to realize it.
Care to join us. Find out what life at Haleon is really like www.haleon.com/careers/
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