Finance Director – Haleon Strategy

Hello. We’re Haleon, a new world-leading consumer health company. Together, we’re improving everyday health for billions of people by growing and innovating our global portfolio of category-leading brands. 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 has four key elements:

• Increasing household penetration.
• Capitalizing on new and emerging growth opportunities in channels, geographies and through portfolio expansion.
• Focusing on execution and financial discipline to improve profitability and sustain reinvestment in sold growth opportunities.
• Running a responsible business to reduce risk and support performance.

This role will provide you the opportunity to lead key activities to progress your career, including:

• Partnering with the Strategy, IR and M&A teams to determine strategic value and choices.
• Supporting the Strategy function to deliver and govern high value-at-stake strategic projects.
• Developing medium to long range strategic plans leveraging deep sector expertise.
• Bringing finance capability, governance, and financial acumen to the evolution of the Haleon value creation framework.
• Defining the Haleon capital allocation strategy with senior leaders.
• Bringing competitor benchmarks and intelligence to strengthen understanding of investor expectations.
• Crafting clear narratives and high-quality papers for the Board and external stakeholders.
• Elevating the organisation’s use of external perspectives from investors to sharpen decision making.

Basic Qualifications:

• Prior experience in Financial Services or transferable experience from within CPG environment.
• Deep sector knowledge of the Global CPG market.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills.
• Able to present/story-tell to senior stakeholders.
• Expertise in complex financial modelling, forecasting and strategic planning.
• Exceptional analytical skills with proven ability to synthesise complex data into actionable insights.
• Ability to distil complex information into simple narratives.
• Proven self-starter with ability to balance conflicting priorities.

The role can cover daily operational deliverables and longer-term strategic projects. You should demonstrate a deep understanding of customer needs by prioritising actions and solutions with the customer at the forefront.

APPLICATION CLOSING DATE – 2nd May 2025. Please save a copy of the Job Description, as this will not be available post closure of the advert.

Why Join Us? The future of everyday health is changing, and we’re the people changing it. Join us to innovate our category-leading brands and better understand people’s everyday health needs. We believe in an agile working culture for all our roles. If flexibility is important to you, we encourage you to explore opportunities with our hiring team.

Haleon is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive equal consideration for employment without regard to any protected class.

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