Demand Planning Manager

GSK Group of Companies

$115K — $135K *
Retail & Consumer Goods
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree required.
  • 3-5 years of demand/supply planning experience.
  • Experience managing a large forecast of SKUs/Items.
  • Strong stakeholder management skills.
  • Knowledge of ERP systems and forecasting tools like APO or SAP IBP is a plus.
  • Highly developed analytical skills are essential.

Responsibilities

  • Own the demand planning cycle for Canada with accurate forecasting.
  • Build robust baseline forecasts using various demand drivers.
  • Lead forecast updates and communicate assumptions and risks.
  • Conduct demand governance meetings in line with global IBP.
  • Collaborate with multiple departments for a unified forecast.
  • Oversee demand-related aspects of product lifecycle management.
  • Define and improve demand planning performance metrics.

Benefits

  • Comprehensive benefits package offered.
  • Opportunity for professional growth and development.
  • Engagement with a consumer-first business approach.
  • Collaborative company culture focused on ethics and compliance.
Full Job Description
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.

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

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