Business Programme Plan Manager

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

The Business Programme Plan Manager is accountable for creating, maintaining, and integrating the overall business programme plan across Project Phoenix. They act as the single source of truth for business planning and ensure coherent sequencing, realistic dependencies, and credible delivery trajectories across multiple workstreams, programmes and partners—enabling leadership to make informed trade-offs, decisions and interventions. This role works in close partnership with the PMO, Business Process Owners, Business Change, Data, Technology and delivery partners to ensure alignment of plans across workstreams.

Key Responsibilities:

• Integrated Business Programme Planning
  • Develop, maintain, and govern the integrated business programme plan aligning milestones, dependencies and critical path items across workstreams and interdependent programmes.
  • Translate programme strategy, governance decisions and business priorities into detailed time-phased delivery plans.
  • Ensure alignment between business readiness activities, design, change management, data, deployment and adoption plans.
  • Ensure the integrated business plan remains aligned to overall programme milestones and stage-gate requirements.
  • Continuously stress test plans for feasibility, capacity, sequencing and risk.
  • Partner effectively with the technical programme plan manager to ensure technical plans are appropriately sequenced and aligned to meet business requirements.
• Dependency & Critical Path Management
  • Maintain an accurate view of critical path and associated delivery risks.
  • Surface conflicts, bottlenecks, and schedule impacts early and propose mitigation or re-sequencing options.
  • Identify, model and manage cross-functional dependencies across business, data, change, governance and technology teams.
  • Ensure dependencies are reflected in programme RAIDD processes and governance discussions.
• Plan Governance & Assurance
  • Ensure planning standards, controls and change management processes are applied consistently.
  • Maintain traceability between scope decisions, governance approvals and plan impacts.
  • Support programme stage gates, readiness assessments, Steering Committees and Design Authority reviews as required.
  • Prepare planning inputs for programme assurance, internal audit and independent assurance reviews.
• Progress Tracking, Forecasting & Reporting
  • Monitor delivery performance against plan and provide forward-looking forecasts, distinguishing clearly between committed, forecast and at-risk milestones.
  • Ensure delivery forecasts are evidence-based and supported by workstream inputs and performance data.
  • Challenge optimism bias and unvalidated assumptions.
  • Produce executive-ready reporting highlighting progress, risks, dependencies and confidence indicators.
  • Work closely with RAIDD item owners to reflect risks, issues and mitigations accurately in the plan.
• Stakeholder & Partner Integration
  • Act as the primary business planning interface for workstream leads and delivery partners.
  • Facilitate planning workshops and dependency reviews.
  • Build strong relationships across business and technology teams to drive integrated delivery.
  • Enable leadership conversations with clear, decision ready views of reality (options, impacts, consequences).

Profile & Experience:

• Significant experience managing integrated plans within complex business transformation programmes.
• Advanced / Expert level planning expertise using Microsoft Project or equivalent planning tools.
• Demonstrated capability in critical path analysis, dependency management, stage gates and enterprise delivery methodologies.
• Understanding of business process transformation, organisational change management and deployment readiness.
• Strong analytical, communication and stakeholder management skills.
• Experience operating within large, matrixed and international organisations.
• Experience working with senior leaders, PMOs and multiple delivery partners.
• PMO, Programme Management or Project management professional qualification.
• Experience supporting SAP S/4 HANA enabled (or other major ERP enabled) programmes (desirable).

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.

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