• Graduate Traineeship

Project Trainee – Trade Spend Executive

Haleon


Overview

  • Experience: Not Specified
  • Min. Education level: Bachelor's Degree
  • Specialism: Accounting, Commerce or Finance
  • Deadline: Monday, September 1, 2025
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Vacancy Description
  • Graduate Traineeship
  • Nairobi
  • September 1, 2025

Hello. We’re Haleon. A new world-leading consumer health company. Shaped by all who join us. Together, we’re improving everyday health for billions of people. By growing and innovating our global portfolio of category-leading brands – including Sensodyne, Panadol, Advil, Voltaren, Theraflu, Otrivin, and Centrum – through a unique combination of deep human understanding and trusted science. What’s more, we’re achieving it in a company that we’re in control of. In an environment that we’re co-creating. And a culture that’s uniquely ours. Care to join us. It isn’t a question.

With category leading brands such as Sensodyne, Voltaren and Centrum, built on trusted science and human understanding, and combined with our passion, knowledge and expertise, we’re uniquely placed to do this and to grow a strong, successful business.

This is an exciting time to join us and help shape the future. It’s an opportunity to be part of something special.

About the role

The Trade Spend Executive – Project Trainee, will support controlling of Trade Spend budgeting, claims approval process, pricing strategy & execution, management monitoring of Financial controls

Key responsibilities

  • Ensure all Gross-to-Net (G2N) budgeting is pre-approved and properly supported
  • Support Review of all distributors claims on company portal
  • Update Offline distributor claims tracker
  • Prepare and review Discounts & various trade activities for set up in company systems and follow up with 3rd party order-to-cash service provider
  • Tracking and preparing rebate settlement workings and share with finance for month-end financial reporting
  • Preparation and coordination of periodic G2N meeting
  • Execute Pricing across functions – price structures, system setup, validation & reviews
  • Support Commercial Hygiene process, internal controls and other Compliance programs by championing management monitoring

Qualifications and skills

Required

  • Relevant certification/accreditations in Finance field e.g CPA, ACCA, CFA, CIFA are a plus
  • Written & verbal French language fluency is a plus
  • A university degree in Accounting & Finance is required
  • Strong communication and interpersonal skills (ability to work across boundaries)
  • Strong presentation and MS office skills
  • Analytical and numeracy skills
  • Preference will be given to recent graduates.
  • Analytical and numeracy skills

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.

We’re 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.

Care to join us. Find out what life at Haleon is really like www.haleon.com/careers/

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. We’re 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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