Solution Lead - Plan to Forecast

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.

The Digital and Tech Solution Owner: PLAN TO FORECAST plays a critical role in ensuring Haleon’s Technology Platforms enable our enterprise processes to be designed, governed, and operated in a consistent, scalable, and future fit way.

The Solution Owner is the enterprise-wide technology enabler of an end-to-end (E2E) global business process and is responsible for its functional design, delivery, service operation and continuous improvement across all functions and markets. This role sits at the centre of Haleon’s transformation – ensuring our processes evolve from legacy, fragmented ways of working into integrated, standardised, and digitally enabled ways of working unlock capacity across the organization, align to strategy, maintain compliance, and operational excellence in support of the growth agenda.

The Solution Owner acts as an informed decision-maker for the enterprise, enabling Business Process Owners to break down functional silos and ensuring technology choices are made for the good of the whole organisation.

Solution Owners safeguard Haleon’s Technology Principles of adoption of Market Standard capabilities, elimination of custom technology solutions, enabling speed to value and speed to market which are essential to delivering scalable, digital, globally aligned operations for the future.

SAP S/4 HANA, SAP IBP and Legacy SAP ECC and SAP APO based functional expertise in,

• Demand Planning
• Supply Planning
• Sales and Operational Planning
• Production Planning

• Own the global functional solution, technical standards, delivery and operations governance, and technical documentation for the E2E ERP process.
• Define and maintain global solution blueprints, technical decision rights, IT controls, and IT policies.
• Ensure standardization and harmonization of ERP solutions across markets and functions.

• Enable business process design / continuous improvement activities across all phases of Enterprise Transformation (Design, Build, Test, Deployment, Sustain).
• Input into the design authority for the process.
• Act as the guardian of the global template during deployment waves and ensure alignment with S/4
  
  HANA design principles.
• Partner with Business Process Owners and SMEs, Data, and other Solution owners to ensure integrated, coherent designs.

• Deliver ongoing BAU changes to the legacy SAP ECC / APO based landscape.
• Deliver functional expertise to address ECC operational critical issues.
• Accountable for Legacy SAP legacy systems lifecycle management – e.g. functional upgrades, legal / tax changes, change related IT controls etc.

• Resolve cross-functional process issues, conflicts, and dependencies.
• Minimise deviations to global standards and ensure adherence to governance frameworks.
• Define process KPIs, controls, and continuous improvement mechanisms.

• Partner with Business Process Owners, Process Experts, Local Process Experts, and Functional Leaders to embed and sustain process changes.
• Ensure effective integration across interconnected processes (e.g., L2C to S2P to R2D).
• Collaborate closely with Data, Compliance Cyber Security, Architecture,…