Production Scheduling BPE in London

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

We have established a Supply Chain Planning Centre of Excellence (CoE) to drive enhancements in our supply chain planning. Our focus is on achieving operational excellence, optimising inventory, boosting customer satisfaction and gaining competitive advantage within our Business Units and Planning Service Centres (PSC). This CoE transcends mere process standardisation and incremental improvement. It is dedicated to fostering innovation and exploring new technologies. By adopting disruptive approaches to supply chain planning, we are setting a new benchmark for agility and strategic growth, ultimately delivering the desired business outcomes.

The Scheduling Business Process Expert supports the Global Scheduling Process Owner in designing, proving and deploying the global production scheduling process. The role covers the conversion of the master production schedule into an executable detailed schedule: line loading, sequencing and changeover optimisation, campaign structures, frozen horizon and schedule stability, and the interface into shop floor execution. This is the discipline where planning meets the line, so the role is expected to spend real time at sites and to design for the people who run the schedule rather than for the system that holds it.

Key responsibilities

• Process design and standards: Supporting production scheduling process design based on daily data analysis and KPI dashboards, covering line loading, sequencing and changeover optimisation, campaign and wheel structures, and short horizon rescheduling.
• Ensuring adherence to scheduling principles, guidelines and process, including the frozen and firm horizon definition, the rules for breaking the frozen period and the standard escalation when the schedule cannot absorb a change.
• Defining the handover standard from master production scheduling into detailed scheduling, and from detailed scheduling into shop floor execution.
• Maintaining process documentation, RACI and standard operating procedures for the scheduling discipline, and keeping them current as the solution evolves.

Daily Management Standards and Daily Direction Setting

• Supporting the Global Scheduling Process Owner in defining Daily Management Standards (DMS) and Daily Direction Setting (DDS) for the scheduling discipline, aligned to the site daily management system.
• Driving DMS and DDS deployment into sites, and coaching schedulers and site leadership through the first cycles of the new cadence.

Performance and scorecard

• Establishing the scheduling related scorecard and its associated KPIs, including schedule adherence, schedule stability inside the frozen horizon, changeover time and count, line utilisation and the contribution of scheduling decisions to overall equipment effectiveness.
• Supporting root cause analysis on KPI performance and translating findings into specific process, parameter or capability actions.

Data, systems and digital

• Supporting system related functionality build in cooperation with the system integrator, the system provider and internal global and local teams.
• Driving improvement in data quality in cooperation with related internal and external teams.

Deployment and change

• Assisting Change Impact Assessment (CIA), training development and documentation in cooperation with internal and external partners.
• Supporting the global roll out of process, system and scorecard into manufacturing sites.

Main competences

• Discipline subject matter expertise: Deep working knowledge of production scheduling.
• Data analysis and dashboard creation: Strong numerical and analytical skills.
• Process design and improvement: Expertise in process design, Lean Six Sigma and other process improvement approaches.
• Project and programme management: Able to plan, sequence and land deliverables within a programme structure.
• Cross-functional leadership: Experience and capability in guiding multi-national and cross-functional teams.
• Change leadership: Strong change leadership experience.
• Communication and collaboration: Good communication and team-oriented skills.
• Close to the ground: Ability to stay close to the ground to understand the real end user experience.

Experience needed

• Substantial experience (typically six years or more) in production scheduling or site planning within a multi-site manufacturing environment.
• Hands-on experience with an advanced scheduling or optimisation solution.
• Practical understanding of manufacturing performance systems.
• Proven experience in process design, simplification, standardisation, alignment and roll out across multiple sites.
• Experience of the pharmaceutical, consumer goods or FMCG sector is preferred.

Qualifications

• University degree (BSc or equivalent) in Supply Chain, Business, Engineering or a related discipline.
• Professional supply chain certification such as APICS/ASCM CPIM or CSCP is desirable.
• Fluency in English (written and spoken).