MPS Team Lead 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

As a regional MPS Team Lead, you will play a key role in the EU Planning Service Centre ensuring continuity of end-to-end supply to the business at optimum financial levels and within compliance standards, following global agreed supply planning processes.

Key responsibilities

• Translate monthly RCCP outputs into executable 0–13-week supply plans with sites and vendors, balancing demand, capacity, production wheels, inventory targets and contractual requirements.
• Ensure timely order placement, manage the open order book, and optimise phase-in/phase-out, component changes and product transfers to minimise write-offs and protect supply.
• Lead and develop the MPS supply planning team, setting clear objectives, managing performance, onboarding and capability development, and building a strong succession pipeline and culture of trust.
• Allocate resources and workload to ensure effective planner coverage, business continuity and timely delivery of planning priorities.
• Partner with market supply managers, demand planners and forecasters to translate forecast changes, promotions, seasonality and NPIs into supply plans that deliver customer service and inventory targets.
• Proactively identify supply-demand imbalances, assess business impact, determine root causes and drive mitigation actions to closure.
• Own the SCIM2 review and act as the primary escalation point for markets, sites and vendors, ensuring clear communication and timely decisions.
• Maintain planning master data and ensure reliable MPS outputs by validating system runs, supportability, projected inventory, constraints, capacity, production wheels and frozen-horizon compliance; develop short-term scenarios and promote approved plans to Base.
• Own team KPIs and performance measures, anticipate the impact of supply and demand changes, and embed agreed improvements into standard ways of working with PSC SMEs.
• Lead and support cross-functional projects and continuous improvement initiatives, engaging supply planners to deliver sustainable outcomes.
• Support the Supply Chain Manager with SCIM3, supplier relationship management and other priority Supply Chain activities.

Qualifications and Skills

• Degree in Engineering, Business Administration, Supply Chain, Logistics or a related discipline, or equivalent professional experience.
• At least five years’ experience in supply, production or materials planning, with a strong understanding of end-to-end supply chain processes.
• Hands-on experience with advanced planning systems such as SAP APO, SAP IBP or equivalent, together with SAP ERP, advanced Excel skills and the ability to analyse large datasets.
• Strong financial and commercial acumen, including the ability to assess supply chain trade-offs and contribute to budgeting and forecasting.
• Proven people-leadership capability, including setting objectives, managing performance, developing talent and building team resilience.
• Sound judgement and a data-led approach to decision-making, balancing pace, rigour and risk while maintaining a strong focus on execution and results.
• Ability to translate strategy into clear priorities, communicate a compelling narrative and motivate others through effective delegation.
• Strong project and change leadership skills, with the ability to conduct holistic analysis and deliver sustainable improvements.
• Excellent communication, collaboration and stakeholder-management skills, with the ability to build trusted relationships internally and externally.
• A continuous-learning mindset, with a commitment to building capability and sharing knowledge across the organisation.