About the role
Haleon’s Innovation Transformation, combined with site modernization and the run portfolio, represents a major long‑term investment exceeding £50M, with projected annualized benefits of over £100M. The scale and complexity of this transformation demand a highly coordinated, multi‑year delivery engine. Reporting to the Head of R&D Tech, this senior leadership role is accountable for the end‑to‑end orchestration of technology delivery across all R&D product pillars. Acting as the central control tower for the Innovation value pool, the role manages risks, dependencies, sequencing, execution, value realization, and service‑transition coherence, ensuring enterprise strategy is translated into a unified delivery plan that lands effectively with the business.
Role Responsibilities
- Strategic Stakeholder Influence and governance: Actively engage with senior leaders globally, represent R&D Tech in senior governance bodies, and ensure high‑quality reporting, decision support, and escalation management across the portfolio.
- Strategic Digital R&D Delivery Leadership: Translate R&D and digital strategies into integrated, actionable delivery plans, lead end‑to‑end delivery orchestration across multiple product lines, and optimize the R&D Tech delivery roadmap.
- Innovation, Business Process Transformation, digitization, Technology consulting, and Value Realization: Partner with Global R&D, QSC, and marketing leaders to transform end‑to‑end innovation processes and realize value via digital, data, and AI enabled use cases.
- Matrix Team Leadership and contract ecosystem management: Provide strong leadership, drive cross‑functional teams, lead vendor negotiations, and manage contracts across a multi‑partner ecosystem.
- Operational excellence: Incorporate data literacy, change management, business readiness, training, and adoption activities to ensure new capabilities land successfully and transition into Level 2 support.
Basic Qualifications
Technical Product & Domain Expertise
- Deep expertise in delivering innovation and R&D programs in a validated environment; broad knowledge of Veeva Vault (Clinical, Regulatory, Safety) and related workflows, formulations, and integrations.
- Strong understanding of Accolade and comparable PPM platforms.
- Broad knowledge of Clinical, Regulatory, Safety, and Research Lab processes within consumer health and life sciences.
- Proficient in integration technologies, APIs, middleware, master data, and enterprise data flows.
- Solid grounding in GxP, CSV, data integrity, and regulatory compliance.
Data and AI Literacy/Fluency
- Provide delivery oversight for a mix of innovation and R&D priorities, including data and AI products and traditional SaaS systems.
- Understand and credibly influence the development of platforms for the benefit of the business.
Leadership & Technical Delivery
- Proven track record leading large‑scale COTS implementations and multi‑system transformation programs.
- Experience managing global, cross‑functional teams and external partners.
- Strong decision‑maker with mature prioritization and risk‑management capabilities.
- Experienced strategic technology lead in large, complex global organisations.
- Experience with Haleon’s Agile and Waterfall methodologies.
Preferred Qualifications
- Analytical & Strategic Thinking.
- Ability to convert complex business needs into scalable, sustainable technology designs.
- Strong problem‑solver focused on simplification, usability, and value.
- Innovative mindset with a willingness to challenge the status quo.
- Excellent communicator and storyteller for both technical and non‑technical audiences.
- Effective relationship‑builder across R&D, Regulatory, Safety, and Digital & Tech teams.
- Adept at influencing senior stakeholders and aligning delivery across functions.
- Strong stakeholder engagement skills, comfortable with a range of technology platforms, suppliers, and integration.
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.
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