Omni Channel Planning Senior Manager
Job Summary
Welcome to Haleon. Were a purpose-driven world-class consumer company putting everyday health in the hands of just three years since our launch weve 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 its 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.
Omni-Channel Planning Senior Manager
Role Summary
The Omni-Channel Planning Senior Manager supports the Omni-Channel Planning Director in translating category and brand strategies into integrated omni-channel plans across offline and eCommerce channels.
This role works closely with Marketing Trade Marketing and Sales teams to support cross-channel growth planning activity planning and category management initiatives. It helps ensure strategy-to-execution consistency through coordinated planning KPI tracking performance analysis and timely follow-up on key actions.
The role is expected to bring a strong understanding of Chinas omni-channel environment shopper and channel dynamics and support the development of practical insight-led plans that can be effectively deployed across channels.
Key Responsibilities
1. Support omni-channel category planning
- Support the Omni-Channel Planning Director in converting category and brand ambition shopper insights and channel dynamics into annual omni-channel plans and rolling quarterly priorities.
- Prepare planning inputs business analysis channel insights and performance reviews to support strategic choices KPI setting and milestone tracking.
- Coordinate with Marketing Trade Marketing and Sales to ensure planning assumptions priorities and execution requirements are clearly aligned.
- Track progress against agreed plans and highlight risks gaps and opportunities with recommended follow-up actions.
2. Support category management guidance and execution standards
- Support the development and deployment of category management guidance including assortment visibility in-store layout shelf layout and customer/channel execution principles.
- Work with Sales and Trade Marketing teams to ensure execution standards are practical clear and consistently applied across key customers and channels.
- Consolidate market feedback and execution learnings to support continuous improvement of category management standards.
3. Drive pricing promotion and performance tracking support
- Support the development of omni-channel pricing and promotion plans in line with brand and category guidelines.
- Conduct performance analysis on promotion effectiveness channel performance ROI and execution quality.
- Maintain scorecards dashboards and regular performance reports to support business reviews and decision-making.
- Identify performance gaps and provide data-driven recommendations for plan optimization.
4. Coordinate shopper marketing and activation planning
- Support the development of national-level shopper marketing and brand promotion plans across offline and eCommerce channels.
- Help build and maintain the integrated activation calendar ensuring alignment across brand priorities customer plans and channel execution windows.
- Coordinate cross-functional communication to ensure activation readiness timely execution and post-campaign review.
- Summarize key learnings from activation performance and translate insights into future planning improvements.
5. Enable cross-functional planning routines and governance
- Support regular omni-channel planning routines including preparation of meeting materials KPI updates issue tracking and follow-up actions.
- Work as a key coordination point across Marketing Trade Marketing Sales and other relevant stakeholders to improve planning discipline and execution consistency.
- Escalate key risks dependencies and decision needs to the Omni-Channel Planning Director with clear analysis and proposed options.
About You
Essential
- 8 years of experience in commercial planning trade marketing category management shopper marketing sales strategy or related roles preferably in an MNC environment.
- Strong understanding of Chinas omni-channel landscape including offline retail eCommerce O2O and emerging digital commerce channels.
- Solid knowledge of category shopper and channel dynamics with the ability to translate insights into practical business plans.
- Strong analytical capability including KPI tracking performance review promotion analysis and insights-to-action.
- Good project management and cross-functional coordination skills with the ability to manage multiple priorities and drive follow-through.
- Strong communication and stakeholder management skills with the ability to influence peers and support senior stakeholder discussions.
- Good business acumen and attention to detail with a structured approach to planning execution tracking and problem solving.
- Comfortable working with data dashboards and business performance tools to support decision-making.
Preferred
- Experience in consumer health FMCG retail eCommerce or adjacent regulated environments.
- Experience supporting annual business planning customer planning category reviews or integrated activation planning.
- Exposure to both offline and eCommerce channel planning is preferred.
- Experience working in matrix organizations with Marketing Sales and Trade Marketing teams.
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About Company
About us We are a science-led global healthcare company with a special purpose: to help people do more, feel better, live longer. We have 3 global businesses that research, develop and manufacture innovative pharmaceutical medicines, vaccines and consumer healthcare products.