Category Finance Director - OH in Weybridge

About the role This role works closely with the Oral Health Category Head and Category Leadership Team including Operating Units (OU) Leads. This role provides high‑quality financial insight, performance tracking, and decision support. As a Finance Director, you will drive delivery of value creation from the Category lens. This will cover strategy, innovation, communication, expert, and execution. You will support decision‑making leveraging brand‑level insights, analysis, and disciplined resource allocation to help drive sustainable growth. The role offers an excellent development opportunity to build deep commercial and category finance capability. Working as part of the Category Team, you will collaborate with stakeholders across the central team and OUs, as well as broader stakeholders, to ensure robust financial analysis, clear performance management, and timely identification of risks and opportunities.

Role Responsibilities

• Support and partner with Category Head and their Team, contributing to delivery of category sales, brand contribution, and value creation.
• Contribute to category and brand financial performance management, including analysis of brand contribution, margins, and resource allocation effectiveness.
• Prepare and deliver financial analysis and insights to support category strategy discussions, trade‑offs, and decision‑making across the year.
• Support Integrated Growth Plan, Annual Business Plan, in‑year forecasting, ensuring robustness, consistency and alignment between category plans and financial outcomes.
• Assist in performance tracking, forecast updates, and early identification of risks and opportunities, escalating key issues and driving solution sets as appropriate.
• Support preparation of Monthly Performance & Delivery Reviews (PRDs), consolidating inputs from Category Team and articulating key drivers, variances, and trends.
• Produce clear and timely category financial analysis including KPIs (e.g. ROI, Brand Market Combination performance, A&P effectiveness), performance drivers, and forward‑looking outlooks.
• Support impairment analysis for category and brand assets, including data preparation, documentation, and compliance support.
• Assist in development and evaluation of category business cases and growth value cases, providing financial modelling and analytical support.
• Monitor brand contribution performance across the portfolio and support prioritisation discussions through robust data and analysis.
• Build strong working relationships with Category incl. OUs, R&D, Supply Chain, and broader finance stakeholders, acting as a credible, collaborative and influential finance partner.
• Support specific elements of the category inorganic growth agenda (e.g. innovation cases, licence deals, M&A analysis) as required.

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree / Qualification in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or a related discipline.
• 7+ years of experience in financial planning & analysis and/or finance business partnering, with a strong track record of influencing senior commercial decision‑making.
• Demonstrated ability to work effectively with non‑finance stakeholders, adjusting style, ultimately be seen as a value‑adding sparring partner for Category Head and their Team notwithstanding differences in seniority, functions and styles.
• Demonstrated ability to communicate effectively, including data visualisation, getting buy in, resolving trade offs.
• Proven end‑to‑end P&L ownership and performance management experience within complex, matrixed organisations.
• Strong financial expertise across analysis, evaluation, forecasting, strategic planning, modelling, and senior‑level decision support.
• Demonstrated strategic thinking, and influencing capability to drive alignment across multiple stakeholders and functions.
• Recognised as a subject‑matter expert within own discipline ideally within FMCG or similarly complex industries.
• Ability to solve complex problems independently, contribute to strategic decisions within area of expertise, and lead or support projects as a best‑practice resource.

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. During the application process, we may ask you to share some personal information, which is entirely voluntary. This information ensures we meet certain regulatory and reporting obligations and supports the development, refinement, and execution of our inclusion and belonging programmes that are open to all Haleon employees. The personal information you provide will be kept confidential, used only for legitimate business purposes, and will never be used in making any employment decisions, including hiring decisions.