Welcome to Haleon. We’re a purpose-driven, world-class consumer company putting everyday health in the hands of millions. In just three years since our launch, we’ve 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 it’s 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.
The EHS & Compliance Lead is a site–facing leadership role responsible for ensuring the effective implementation of Environmental, Health & Safety (EHS) management systems, compliance programs, and operational risk controls across the manufacturing site. This includes driving a strong safety culture, ensuring alignment with Haleon standards, leading crisis and business continuity programs (BCP & CMP), and overseeing Engineering and EHS compliance activities such as calibrations and adherence to technical standards.
The EHS & Compliance Lead will provide technical guidance to Site Leadership, Engineering and EHS teams, and will influence decision‑making to ensure risks are identified, controlled, and continuously improved. The role also collaborates broadly across functions—Quality, Engineering, Supply Chain, HR and external partners—to embed EHS into all site processes and ensure regulatory and corporate compliance.
To be successful, the individual must demonstrate strong leadership, problem‑solving, stakeholder engagement and the ability to drive behavioral‑based safety initiatives. This role is a key contributor to the site's talent pipeline, offering future growth into roles in EHS, Engineering or Operations within Haleon.
Role Responsibilities
- Lead implementation and governance of EHS programs, compliance with Haleon Policies, Standards and internal control frameworks.
- Oversee incident investigations, risk assessments, CAPA management and regulatory compliance.
- Strengthen the site’s safety culture through coaching, training, and proactive engagement.
- Lead Business Continuity Plans (BCP) and Crisis Management Processes (CMP), ensuring readiness and execution.
- Manage Engineering & EHS compliance programs including calibrations, technical standards, alerts, and audits (L1–L4).
- Collaborate with cross‑functional teams to embed EHS into operations, projects and change management processes.
- Ensure environmental compliance and minimize the site’s environmental impact.
- Develop and mentor EHS team members and SMEs, ensuring competency, capability and succession planning.
- Maintain accurate reporting, KPIs and communication to site and corporate stakeholders.
- Coordinate external/internal audits and ensure timely closure of findings.
- Support continuous improvement using tools such as gap analysis, root cause analysis and risk assessment.
Why you?Basic Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Sciences, or Occupational Safety.
- 2–5 years of experience in EHS roles within industrial environments.
- Experience in risk assessments, incident investigations, compliance programs and audits.
- Strong communication, leadership, teamwork and decision‑making skills.
- Ability to manage multiple priorities with a strong sense of urgency and organization.
Preferred Qualifications
- Master’s degree in Engineering, Sciences or EHS.
- Experience in Consumer Healthcare, FMCG, CPG or Pharmaceutical industries.
- Experience leading safety programs such as Process Safety, Machinery Safety or Contractor Safety.
- Strong influencing skills and ability to work in a highly cross‑functional, matrixed environment.
- Experience delivering EHS training and developing technical competencies in others.
Job Posting End Date
2026-03-28
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. It’s 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.
The personal information you provide will be kept confidential, used only for legitimate business purposes, and will never be used in making any employment decisions, including hiring decisions.
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If you require a reasonable adjustment or accommodation or other assistance to apply for a job at Haleon at any stage of the application process, please let your recruiter know by providing them with a description of specific adjustments you are requesting. We’ll provide all reasonable adjustments to support you throughout the recruitment process and treat all information you provide us in confidence.
Note to candidates
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What We Do
You have loved and trusted our brands for over 170 years. We have a clear purpose, to deliver better everyday health with humanity.
Our category-leading brands include Sensodyne, Panadol, Centrum, TUMS, Advil, Otrivin and Voltaren. We combine deep human understanding and trusted science to make everyday health more inclusive, more achievable and more sustainable.
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