Commercial Functional Lead

Welcome to Haleon. Were a purpose-driven world-class consumer company putting everyday health in the hands of just three years since our launch weve 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 its 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.

Haleon Enterprise Transformation Commercial Functional Lead

The Enterprise Transformation Programme is a multi-year journey focused on transforming the Haleon business building an organisation that is wired for excellence to be able to deliver our Win as One strategy and drive growth through continuous improvement. The programme aims to strengthen the heartbeat of our business enabling us to become more agile efficient and innovative and is enabled through SAP S/4HANA. The Functional Lead plays a critical role in turning this ambition a reality by ensuring the Enterprise Transformation delivery enables the functional ambition and unlocks value at pace.

Detailed Responsibilities

Functional Leads play a key role in overseeing driving delivery and communicating about the Enterprise Transformation outcomes for their functions. By partnering with functional leadership Functional Leads will challenge proposed plans manage risks and issues and ensure readiness for delivery with successful adoption including interim operating states during the transformation process.

Design Plan and Coordination:

• Collaborate with functional leadership to ensure design meets functional requirements and strategic objectives.

• Facilitate workshops to gather input feedback and socialise recommendations made with functional leadership to refine and finalise functional design in partnership with Business Process Owners.

• Own functional decision governance process driving decisions through relevant governance forums and Functional Leadership Team meetings.

• Align functional designs with programme timelines and milestones ensuring coordination with other functional areas.

• Line Management of significant team of direct reports that will be different per OU for the time of implementation per particular OU.

Readiness for Delivery:

• Evaluate the preparedness of their functional area for programme delivery identifying any gaps and proposing solutions.

• Support their functional area in bridging gaps for readiness.

Interim Operating States Management:

• Oversee the establishment and management of interim operating states to support business continuity during transformation.

• Collaborate with functional leadership and operational teams to design and implement interim processes ensuring minimal disruption to existing operations.

• Ensure that plans are in place to transition from interim states to permanent processes in a sustainable way.

Stakeholder Engagement:

• Foster effective relationships with functional leaders and stakeholders ensuring alignment and collaboration throughout the programme.

• Communicate effectively adapting messaging for different audiences to ensure clarity and engagement in the programme objectives.

• Champion the interest of functional teams ensuring their priorities are reflected in programme decision-making.

Experience and Key Competencies:

• Experience working in complex global organisations ideally within Consumer Health or FMCG sectors

• General Management or Country Management experience is needed. Strong Comex Head Experience would be a second option.

• Inspiring and motivating strong leader with the power to inspire energize and motivate their team to work together to achieve shared goals.

• Building strong relationships skilled at developing ability to build strong collaborative team connections relationships with their team.

• Making informed decisions Evaluates challenges Considering problems and challenges from multiple different perspectives analyse potential outcomes takes calculated risks and make decisions that drive help propel the organization forward.

• Navigating and driving changeidentifying the need for change executing structured change management strategies guiding teams through managing periods of uncertainty and disruption and ensuring operational maintaining stability and continuity throughout the transformation. for the organization.

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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. Its 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.

Adjustment or Accommodations Request

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. Well 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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Employment Type : Full-Time
Experience: years
Vacancy: 1