Product & Technology Lead

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.

About the role

• To lead the governance, implementation, and continuous improvement of Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) on site.
• This includes managing and motivating a team of Product and Process Engineers, providing technical guidance, ensuring compliance with regulatory and EHS standards, and partnering with value streams, support functions, and global teams to deliver operational excellence and product quality throughout the Lifecyle.

Key responsibilities

• Oversee governance, implementation, and continuous improvement of PLM, ensuring robust processes from development to commercialization and through-out its lifecycle post commercialization.
• Deliver high-value projects that reduce waste, improve quality, and drive cost savings, including value engineering and packaging de-risking initiatives.
• Provide technical expertise in packaging, ensuring materials and components meet performance, quality, and sustainability standards.
• Identify and implement sustainability improvements in packaging and processes, collaborating with internal and external stakeholders.
• Manage, motivate, coach and develop a team of engineers, fostering technical growth and ensuring effective succession planning. Provides technical leadership and shares expertise with the team of process engineers and packaging engineers.
• Partner with operations, quality, procurement, and global teams to implement best practices and align technical strategies. Interfaces with regional and global teams to develop and implement best practises and ensuring technical strategy is aligned with overall business strategy.
• Ensure all technical activities and documentation comply with regulatory and corporate standards; provide technical input for audits and regulatory submissions. Interacts with internal and external auditors to support site inspections. Ensures that Health Authority regulations are appropriately adhered to and a fit-for-purpose approach is embedded within the team.
• Conduct risk assessments, lead root cause analyses, and resolve product or packaging deviations and complaints.
• Prepare, track, and present key performance indicators (KPIs) for PLM and packaging, using data to drive continuous improvement. Accountable for overall performance of the team according to the performance standard.
• Ensure clear, timely communication of technical recommendations, project progress, and improvement actions to all relevant stakeholders.
• Conduct all work activities in accordance with the Environment Health, Safety and Wellbeing Policy QD-POL-000823, maintaining a secure and healthy workplace and complying with EHS and Engineering standards and site procedures.

Qualifications and skills

Required

• Minimum of 5 years’ experience in a similar role.
• Master’s Degree or equivalent qualification in Scientific, Technical or Engineering disciplines.
• Demonstrated experience in the Pharmaceutical or FMCG industry in leading the technical aspects of the Product Lifecycle including Technology Transfers, Technical Risk Assessments, Product Control Strategies, Process Capability/Robustness, QbD, validation and change control.

Other Skills/Qualifications

• Good communication and documentation skills
• Good organizational skills and attention to detail
• Team player

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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.

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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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.
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