Finance Director Marketing

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 CMO Finance Director is the strategic finance leader responsible for partnering with commercial, marketing, procurement, and enterprise stakeholders to shape, steer, and deliver the financial performance of the CMO portfolio. This role leads in-year delivery, owns the Investment Review process, manages the total media budget envelope, and provides financial leadership across portfolio optimization, enterprise initiatives, innovation programs, procurement opportunities, and long-range planning.

Key Responsibilities:

Strategic Leadership & CMO Partnership

• Serve as a senior finance partner to CMO leadership, providing strategic insight, challenge, and financial guidance to drive performance, growth, and enterprise value.

• Lead in-year delivery for the CMO portfolio, actively managing risks and opportunities and ensuring clear financial ownership across key performance drivers.

• Own and lead the Investment Review process, ensuring robust governance, financial discipline, and clear decision support for investment choices.

• Act as a trusted adviser influencing critical business decisions, including media investment, portfolio prioritization, resource allocation, and financial trade-offs.

Media Budget Management & Financial Governance

• Own the total media budget envelope, including planning timeline, input validation, financial impact assessment, and co-approval with leadership.

• Partner with Marketing, Commercial, and Finance stakeholders to ensure media investment plans are financially sound, strategically aligned, and performance focused.

• Provide transparency and accountability across media spend, ensuring effective governance, disciplined resource allocation, and alignment to business priorities.

• Support scenario planning and investment choices that optimize returns across categories, brands, and enterprise priorities.

Planning, Forecasting & Performance Management

• Support Long Range Planning, providing financial insight, assumptions, and guidance to shape sustainable growth and value creation.

• Drive accuracy and consistency in forecast submissions, ensuring risks, opportunities, and key drivers are clearly understood and actively managed.

• Provide clear, insight-rich financial narratives to support leadership reviews, business planning, and decision-making.

Portfolio Optimization & Enterprise Support

• Drive portfolio optimization by providing financial analysis, plan-setting guidance, and recommendations to improve investment effectiveness and business outcomes.

• Support cross-category enterprise and corporate initiatives, ensuring financial implications, trade-offs, and opportunities are clearly understood.

• Partner across categories and functions to embed consistent financial decision-making, improve ways of working, and strengthen enterprise alignment.

• Provide financial leadership for innovation programs, including PMB support, business case development, and investment evaluation.

Procurement, Controls & Financial Health

• Lead finance support for procurement initiatives, including contract negotiations, supplier-related financial analysis, and value creation opportunities.

• Partner with Procurement and business leaders to evaluate commercial terms, financial impact, and negotiation outcomes.

• Oversee balance sheet provisions and reviews, ensuring appropriate governance, accuracy, and compliance with internal controls.

• Maintain strong financial stewardship across spend, provisions, controls, and reporting requirements.

Required Experience & Capabilities

Technical & Functional Expertise

• Proven experience in commercial finance, marketing finance, or financial leadership supporting complex, multi-brand portfolios.

• Strong command of financial planning, forecasting, budget management, investment governance, and performance management.

• Demonstrated ability to manage significant budget envelopes and translate financial insights into actionable business recommendations.

• Experience supporting Long Range Planning, portfolio optimization, procurement initiatives, and innovation investment decisions.

Leadership & Influence

• Executive-level presence with the ability to influence and challenge senior leaders constructively.

• Strong financial judgement and ability to lead through ambiguity, competing priorities, and complex trade-off decisions.

• Ability to simplify complex financial topics and communicate clearly across senior stakeholders and cross-functional teams.

• Demonstrated ability to drive accountability, align stakeholders, and support enterprise-wide decision-making.

Collaboration & Stakeholder Management

• Ability to partner effectively across Marketing, Commercial, Procurement, Enterprise Finance, Innovation, and Category teams.

• Skilled at building trusted relationships and driving alignment across a complex matrix environment.

• Strong negotiation, problem-solving, and influencing skills, with the ability to balance functional priorities and enterprise outcomes.

*This role is based in Warren, NJ, and follows a hybrid model, requiring an in-office presence of 3 days per week.

Basic Qualifications:
We are looking for professionals with these required skills to achieve our goals:

• Bachelor’s degree plus a professional qualification, such as CPA, CIMA, ACCA, or local equivalent

• Previous Commercial Finance, Marketing Finance, or FP&A experience

• Experience managing complex budgets, forecasts, and investment planning processes

• Experience partnering with senior stakeholders in a matrixed organization

• Professional finance experience at a senior level

Preferred Qualifications:
If you have the following characteristics, it would be a plus:

• MBA or further graduate studies

• Proven finance partnering skills in a commercial, media, or marketing-led environment

• Experience managing large budget envelopes, including media, A&P, or brand investment spend

• Demonstrated financial knowledge of modelling, analysis, evaluation, forecasting, strategic planning, and decision-making at a senior level

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills

• Experience providing management insight and value-added analysis for complex business issues

• Relationship builder with the ability to influence across functions and develop others

• Ability to effectively use negotiation and conflict resolution skills

• Capability to lead, influence, and work in a complex matrix environment

The salary range for this role is: $187,809 - $ 258,237 USD annually plus an annual bonus.

Benefits

Haleon offers a robust Total Reward package that consists of competitive pay and a comprehensive benefits program.  This includes a generous 401(k) plan, tuition reimbursement and time off programs including 6 months paid parental leave.  On day one, you are eligible for benefits, including our healthcare programs where the company pays for the majority of your medical coverage for you and your family.  We also offer the opportunity to receive a discretionary bonus based on the achievement of key business performance and other incentive/recognition programs as part of the offering.

 

 

 

Job Posting End Date

2026-09-15

 

 

 

 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.

 

 

 

Please note that if you are a US Licensed Healthcare Professional or Healthcare Professional as defined by the laws of the state issuing your license, Haleon may be required to capture and report expenses Haleon incurs, on your behalf, in the event you are afforded an interview for employment. This capture of applicable transfers of value is necessary to ensure Haleon’s compliance to all federal and state US Transparency requirements.

 

 

 

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Note to candidates

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