Haleon
Category Finance Director - OH
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Category Finance Director - OH
Finance Director – Oral Health Category – Join Haleon
About Haleon
Welcome to Haleon, a purpose-driven, world-class consumer company dedicated to delivering better everyday health with humanity. In just three years, we’ve grown and evolved, entering an exciting new phase with bold ambitions. Our portfolio of trusted brands—Sensodyne®, Panadol®, Advil®, Voltaren®, Theraflu®, Otrivin®, and Centrum®—dominates resilient and expanding categories. What sets us apart is deep human understanding and trusted science, enabling us to unlock our business and our people’s potential through Win as One: a strategy that embeds our purpose of building better health with humanity at its core.
About the Role
This Finance Director position works closely with the Oral Health Category Head and the Category Leadership Team, including Operating Units (OU) Leads.
Your role involves delivering high-quality financial insights, performance tracking, and executive decision support by driving value creation from a Category perspective. This extends across:
- Strategy, innovation, communications, and execution.
- Leveraging brand-level insights, analysis, and disciplined resource allocation to sustain growth.
This is an excellent opportunity to build deep commercial and category finance expertise. You’ll collaborate with cross-functional stakeholders—central teams, OUs, R&D, Supply Chain, and Finance—to ensure robust financial analysis, performance management, timely risk assessment, and opportunity identification.
Key Responsibilities
Strategic & Financial Leadership
- Partner with the Category Head and Team to drive category sales growth, brand contribution, and value creation.
- Lead category-and-brand financial performance management, including:
- Margins, brand contribution analysis, resource allocation effectiveness.
- Provide financial analysis and insights for:
- Category strategy discussions and trade-offs.
- Support across the fiscal year, including Integrated Growth Plans, Annual Business Plans, and in-year forecasting.
Performance Tracking & Decision Support
- Track performance, update forecasts, and identify risks and opportunities:
- Escalate critical issues and guide solutions.
- Prepare Monthly Performance & Delivery Reviews (PRDs), consolidating insights on key drivers, variances, and trends.
Financial & Commercial Analysis
- Produce clear, timely financial reports on:
- KPIs (ROI, brand-market contribution, advertising and promotion [A&P] effectiveness).
- Performance drivers and forward-looking outlooks.
- Support impairment analysis for category/brand assets, ensuring pliance and transparency.
Business Cases & Growth Initiatives
- Develop and evaluate category business cases and growth value cases:
- Financial modelling, analytical support.
Inorganic & Portfolio Growth
- Assist in innovation cases, licence deals, or M&A analysis for category inorganic growth opportunites.
- Monitor brand contribution performance across the portfolio, underpinning prioritisation discussions.
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Requirements
Education & Experience
- Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or a related discipline.
- 7+ years’ experience in financial planning & analysis (FP&A) or finance business partner roles.
- Strong track record of influencing senior commercial decision-making.
- Proven ability to collaborate across non-finance stakeholders, catalysing strategic synergy regardless of differences in function, seniority or style.
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Skills & Competencies
- Data visualisation & communication: Articulate insights compellingly, engage senior stakeholders in trade-off discussions.
- End-to-end P&L ownership within complex, matrixed organisations: Demonstrated ownership of performance management.
- Strategic financial expertise, including:
- Analysis, evaluation, forecasting, strategic planning, modelling.
- Influencing & stakeholder alignment: Drive performance globally through collaboration and advocacy.
- Subject-matter expertise: Ideally in FMCG or comparable industries, recognised as an authoritative expert.
Additional Notes
Equal Opportunities
We are committed to building an inclusive culture that values diversity and reflects the consumers we serve. During the application process, you may choose to disclose voluntary personal info to support our appeals to hire inclusive and belong programmes—guaranteed confidentiality is assured.
Accommodation Requests
We respect every candidate’s needs. If you require adjustments to support your application, please advise your Haleon recruiter in detail. All assistance will be managed with discretion and fulfil your needs.
All contact from Haleon will use an email address (@haleon.com). Questions regarding unfamiliar emails orrittefs? Feel free to connect with our recruitment team.
Apply By
2026-07-25.
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