APAC Market Planning & S&OP Lead

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 The APAC S&OP Lead reports to the Head of QSC for the OU and is based in Singapore. The role leads the S&OP and IBP cycle across APAC, enabling cross-functional decision-making, alignment between commercial ambition and supply capability, and disciplined execution of business plans. Role Description • Leads IBP as the business deployment process for APAC, delivering predictable performance and building sustainable capability across people, process and systems. • Owns the APAC S&OP process and is accountable for its effectiveness across the OU, categories and key markets. • Ensures the monthly S&OP cycle integrates demand, supply, inventory, financial and portfolio inputs into clear decisions and execution plans. • Frames risks, opportunities and scenarios for leadership decision-making across service, growth, cost, cash and resilience. • Establishes the S&OP calendar, meeting flow, decision standards and governance. • Ensures S&OP outputs support Global Performance, MPR, ABP and IGP cycles. • Aggregates and validates demand plans, ensuring key assumptions and changes are understood. • Contributes to key business planning processes, including target setting, ABP and IGP. • Connects OU business planning, target setting and review processes with category growth plans through an effective commercial, finance and QSC handshake. • Owns base-plan, what-if and scenario analysis with Category Supply Planning. • Defines scenario scope and demand ranges across growth building blocks, including initiatives. • Aligns business teams on the risks and opportunities to be assessed. • Embeds business planning into the monthly S&OP cycle to avoid duplication and keep decisions integrated beyond supply and demand. • Ensures plans are documented, tracked and converted into execution. • Leads development and alignment of the OU Operating Strategy. • Owns inventory performance plans. • Owns OU availability and leads risk and resilience for the OU. • Accountable for training OU resources and ensuring adherence to agreed processes. • Represents the OU in key system implementation and upgrade projects. • Builds S&OP capability to reduce losses in areas influenced by planning decisions, improving the quality and timeliness of information. • Acts as the key interface with category-level functions and disciplines, including brand families and functional resourcing. • Leads OU lifecycle and portfolio management, owning SKU productivity and portfolio optimisation. Responsibilities: • Owns the APAC IBP process and leads effective S&OP execution across Category, OU and market stakeholders. • Owns the OU Operating Strategy interface with the Planning Centre, Category teams and other key stakeholders. • Leads long-term business planning, what-if analysis and scenario planning to assess risks, opportunities and trade-offs. • Balances sales, production and inventory at category level in line with latest business plans, using an exception-based approach with execution led by PSC. • Drives collaboration between Category, OU, Commercial, Finance, Planning Centre and QSC teams to align plans and execution. • Facilitates the monthly S&OP cycle, ensuring meetings are prepared, decision-focused and followed through with clear owners and completion dates. • Ensures portfolio changes, including NPI, EOL and SKU optimisation, are incorporated into demand, supply and business planning decisions. • Leads long-term capacity master planning beyond the 18-month horizon. • Leads QSC input into Strategic Revenue Management. • Leads S&OP health checks, meeting effectiveness reviews and continuous-improvement actions. • Maintains action logs, decisions, outcomes and follow-up tracking to ensure S&OP decisions translate into execution. • Serves as the key point of contact for Brand and Business teams on S&OP, IBP and operating-plan alignment. Experience and Technical Requirements: • Bachelor’s degree in supply chain, operations, business, finance, engineering or a related field required; advanced degree or supply chain certification preferred. • Minimum 10 years’ experience in end-to-end supply chain, commercial planning, operations or related business leadership roles. • Strong experience in S&OP, IBP, demand planning, supply planning, inventory planning or business planning, preferably across multiple markets or categories. • Demonstrated ability to lead cross-functional planning forums and influence senior stakeholders across Commercial, Finance, QSC, Category and market teams. • Advanced analytical capability, including scenario planning, trade-off evaluation, root-cause analysis and translation of data into clear business decisions. • Strong working knowledge of planning processes, including demand, supply, inventory, portfolio, NPI/EOL, MRP, S&OP and IBP. • Experience using enterprise planning systems, analytics tools and reporting platforms to consolidate data, identify insights and support decision-making. • Financial and commercial acumen, with the ability to connect volume, sales, margin, inventory, servi…