Demand Planning Manager

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.

This Job Posting is for an existing vacancy.

Work Authorization: Candidates must be legally authorized to work in Canada at the time of application and throughout employment. Visa sponsorship is not available for this role.

Relocation: No relocation assistance is available. Candidates are expected to reside within commuting distance of the position location, or relocate at their own expense.

Salary Range: The base salary compensation range for this position is $115,000- $135,000 plus bonus and benefits.

Are you looking for a role to lead the demand planning process and drive IBP implementation in a dynamic business environment?  If so, this is the role for you.

Job Purpose:

The Demand Planning Manager will own the Canada demand plan for an agreed portfolio and planning horizon, translating commercial and market insights into a credible, consensus forecast that enables strong service, inventory, and financial outcomes.

A key component of this role is supporting and accelerating the implementation of Haleon’s global IBP within Canada/North America, embedding new governance, ways of working, and planning discipline to drive alignment across Commercial, Finance, and Supply Chain.

Why Join Haleon?

• Competitive compensation and annual bonus package.

• Comprehensive and flexible benefits program from day 1.

• Defined contribution pension plan with employer contribution.

• Optional Haleon Savings Plan with employer matching.

• We offer all new parents at Haleon 26 weeks of fully paid leave, regardless of gender or sexuality.

• Inclusive, diverse, and collaborative culture.

• Commitment to development and career progression.

• Hybrid model in a modern office located in Mississauga.

• Fitness centre, annual fitness subsidy, and bistro onsite.

Key Responsibilities:

This role will provide YOU the opportunity to lead key activities to progress YOUR career.  These responsibilities include some of the following:

•    Own the end-to-end demand planning cycle for Canada, delivering an accurate forecast across short, mid, and long-range horizons.
•    Build and maintain a robust baseline forecast and incorporate demand drivers (promotions, launches, distribution changes, pricing actions, seasonality, customer events).
•    Lead forecast updates with clear documentation of assumptions, risks, and opportunities; ensure stakeholders understand key changes.
•    Manage and run demand governance meetings in line with Haleon’s global IBP model (e.g., Demand Review preparation, pre-DRM...etc)
•    Partner with Commercial/Sales, Marketing/Category, Finance, Customer Service, and Supply Planning to achieve a single aligned forecast.
•    Partner with Marketing/Category, Supply and Sales to ensure NPI/Launch readiness from a demand perspective (timelines, Pipe volume, cannibalization, and risk/opportunity assessment).
•    Own demand-related aspects of product lifecycle management, including phase-in/phase-out planning, substitutions, delistings, and end-of-life forecasting to minimize obsolescence and protect service.
•    Define, track, and continuously improve demand planning performance (e.g., Forecast Accuracy, Bias, Forecast Value Add).
•    Lead variance analysis vs. actuals and prior forecast; translate results into clear root causes and corrective actions.
•    Responsible to build and monitor the right key performance indicators.
•    Proactively flag risks to service or inventory and recommend mitigation plans.

Why you?

Basic Qualifications:

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

•    Bachelor’s degree.
•    3-5 years’ experience in demand/supply planning.
•    Experience handling forecast of large number of SKUs/Items
•    Ability to manage internal and external stakeholders effectively.

Preferred Qualifications:

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

•    Experience in supply chain, logistics, supply management, demand management or operational management.
•    Experience with ERP system and other forecasting tools like APO, O9 or SAP IBP.
•    Organizational skills with excellent attention to details.
•    Leadership and influencing skills.
•    Relationship builder.
•    Strong awareness of customer service.
•    Ability to apply strategic and lateral thinking to solve complex problems.
•    Experience with Excel and MS Office.
•    Highly developed analytical skills

Why Haleon?

Our Win as One Framework is a simple, stretching definition of our future direction. It includes our purpose, ambitions, strategic drivers, and behaviours that will enable us to Win as One. This framework guides our decision-making, strategy, and culture. The successful candidate will demonstrate the following capabilities:

•    Consumer first, always: Engage key business counterparts and operational stakeholders to deliver operational execution of Haleon strategies related to eCommerce activities, always putting the consumer first.
•    Collaborate for impact: Establish and maintain relationships with critical groups to ensure customer knowledge is utilized to inform and deliver on the eCommerce roadmap, collaborating for impact.
•    Unlock value, at pace: Drive business process improvement throughout the commercial and operational support teams, unlocking value at pace.
•    Grow myself and others: Continuously look for opportunities to learn, build skills, and share learning, growing myself and others.

Code of Conduct as a Leader within Haleon , you have an important responsibility to ensure that this Code is applied correctly and to promote an ethical culture.

•    Be the role model that brings our Code to life, by always acting with the highest ethical standards.
•    Ensure you are familiar with our Code and the Ethics & Compliance contact, in your market.
•    Maintain an environment of trust that allows all to Speak Up, reinforcing the guarantee of anonymity and non-retaliation.
•    Listen to your team and promptly raise any compliance concerns you become aware of.
•    Make any necessary corrective and preventive decisions, in a timely manner.
•    Recognize those in your team who display ethical behavior; share examples of good ethical decision-making, so all understand how we expect them to act.
•    Provide timely support into any company investigation of potential wrongdoing.
 

AI Statement:

At Haleon, we are committed to a fair, transparent, and human-centered hiring process. 
 

We do not make automated hiring decisions or automated candidate dispositions within our Talent Acquisition systems. All decisions regarding whether to advance a candidate in the hiring process are made by human recruiters and hiring managers. 
 

While we utilize AI tools to assist in ranking candidate profiles based on their experience and alignment with job requisitions, these tools are used solely to support our teams in reviewing applications more efficiently. A human always reviews this data and makes the final decision on candidate progression. 

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 Job Posting End Date

 

 

2026-09-18

 

 

 

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.

 

 

 

Adjustment or Accommodations Request

If you require a reasonable adjustment or accommodation or other assistance to apply for a job at Haleon at any stage of the application process, please let your recruiter know by providing them with a description of specific adjustments you are requesting. We’ll provide all reasonable adjustments to support you throughout the recruitment process and treat all information you provide us in confidence. 

 

 

 

Note to candidates

The Haleon recruitment team will contact you using a Haleon email account (@haleon.com). If you are not sure whether the email you received is from Haleon, please get in touch.