Trade Spend Controller

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.

About the role

• The Spend Control Specialist supports the commercial and sales teams by providing financial analysis insights and decision support to drive profitable growth.
• The role focuses on sales performance pricing promotions trade spend customer profitability and customer account health in a fast-paced FMCH environment.

Key responsibilities

1. Claims

• Gather Proof of performance for promotional activity.
• Investigate follow-up and close variance by claim with the customer.
• Support Account managers in claims management and processing.
• Attach and submit POP to NAM/KAM for the approval of promotion activity.
• Support preparation of Governance review meetings.

2. Accruals Creation

• Support with the creation of accruals.
• Ensure all the accruals are approved on time.
• Support in closing off accrual activity post promotion and claims processing.
• Assist in monitoring trade spend and ensuring spend is within approved limits and budget.

3. Claims tracker

• Monthly updating of Claims tracker.
• Ensure Claims submitted and open <10 WD are actioned.

4. Post ROI Analysis

• Support sales team with the analysis of promotional activity.
• Promotional forecast accuracy tracking.
• Identify promotional activities with highest return and propose reallocation of funds from the underperforming promotions.
• Track promotional performance versus forecasts and budgets.
• Highlight risks and margin leakage in proposed commercial deals.
• Assist with annual budgeting and periodic re-forecasts.
• Perform scenario and sensitivity analysis where required.

5. Loading of Customer Cycle deals

• Assist KAMs / NAMs with ensuring cycle deals are loaded and approved ahead of time.
• Reconcile sales rebates discounts and trade spend.
• Assist with annual budgeting and periodic re-forecasts.
• Support variance analysis and reporting to relevant stakeholders.

6. Business partnering & stakeholder engagement

• Work closely with Sales Comex and Finance teams.
• Translate financial information into clear commercial insights.
• Support ad-hoc commercial analysis and decision support requests.
• Develop strong working relationships with key internal stakeholders.

7. Overall customer account health

• Support account managers in consolidating supporting documentation to support in the validation of claims.
• Highlight any risks on customer accounts.
  

8. Learning and Development

• Stay updated on industry trends financial regulations and best practices.
• Actively participate in training programs and knowledge-sharing initiatives.
• Seek mentorship and develop technical and soft skills required for business partnering.

Qualifications and skills

Required

• A bachelors degree in finance Accounting Economics or similar.
• 1 2 years experience.
• Vacation work / internships in: Finance Accounting Commercial roles Case studies or simulations Tutoring or analytical project work.

Other Skills/Qualifications

• Strong analytical and commercial acumen with the ability to influence non-financial stakeholders.
• Strong Excel skills.
• Excellent communication collaboration and analytical skills.

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Diversity Equity and Inclusion

At Haleon we embrace our diverse workforce by creating an inclusive environment that celebrates our unique perspectives generates curiosity to create unmatched understanding of each other and promotes fair and equitable outcomes for everyone.

Were striving to create a climate where we celebrate our diversity in all forms by treating each other with respect listening to different viewpoints supporting our communities and creating a workplace where your authentic self belongs and thrives.

We believe in an agile working culture for all our roles. If flexibility is important to you we encourage you to explore with our hiring team what the opportunities are.

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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. Its 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.

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