Haleon plc is a British multinational consumer healthcare company with headquarters in Weybridge, Surrey. It is the largest consumer healthcare business in the world, with brands including Sensodyne toothpaste, Panadol and Advil painkillers and Centrum vitamins
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The Trade Spend Manager is responsible for ensuring that the budget is produced timely and controlled throughout the financial cycle.
This includes overseeing internal controls compliance, budget tracking & analysis, risk escalation and management reporting.
Key responsibilities
Performs the monthly trade spend overview to accrual reconciliation and drives reporting across the organization
Owns budget reviews and analysis by customer, consolidation at a cluster level
Delivers management reporting on budget status, risks and opportunities
Owns trade spend management process across system, governance and reporting
Keeps track of trade spend accruals, claims received and processed as actuals and conducts monthly audits of system entries against the governance protocols
Ensures training of related internal and external teams on the process, adherence to standard operating procedures applicable
Owns price setup and maintenance process
Overseas and governs the trade spend management system
Super-user and local administrator for the system
Local liaison to regional system admin teams for trouble shooting
Master data maintenance for seamless running of the platform
Annual budget maintenance – annual agreements, trade terms, fixed & variable spend allocations for all Cluster/Customer/Activity/Brand combinations
Qualifications and skills
Required
Bachelor’s degree from a reputable university in the fields of Finance, Accounting, Business Administration
Relevant certification/accreditations in Finance field e.g CPA, ACCA, CFA, CIFA are a plus
Minimum 5 years in trade marketing, finance or sales function
Written & verbal fluency in French and English is a plus
Experience in trade spend management
Ability to think analytically
Strong influencing and communication skills
Experience in FMCG/Consumer Healthcare environment, working across complex organizational structures
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