Senior Manager – Transitions

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.

You’ll be part of the Transition and Transformation organisation, reporting into the Transition and Transformation Head working in close collaboration and partnership with multiple stakeholders across the board to enable delivery of the Haleon strategic roadmap.
 
You’ll enjoy the challenge of a fast-paced, problem-solving environment that requires you to think and act quickly to address strategic and day-to-day business priorities.  

You’ll be empowered and accountable to deliver transitions end - end spanning multiple Haleon functions, business units globally.

About the Role

The Global Transition and Transformation function has oversight and end to end delivery accountability for a wide portfolio of transformation programs and projects spanning Operating Model, Process and Enterprise level transformation. Your role therefore is pivotal to front-ending and delivering the Operating Model transformation road map for Haleon.

• Transition Scoping and planning:
  • Facilitate discovery workshops and document transition scope. Plan follow-ups where required.
  • Facilitate planning workshops; develop and baseline the end-end transition roadmap / plan.
• Business Case: Closely monitor spend; manage baseline changes through change control.
• Governance:

• Partner with the Global PMO to ensure toll gate criteria are well defined relative to the transition nature and tollgates are orchestrated in line with the transition plan. Prepare content for tollgates.
• Prepare status reports on overall transition health for report-out at weekly governance. Leverage standard tooling and best practices as prescribed by the Global PMO for status updates.

• Detailed Design / Solutioning, Knowledge Transfer (KT) planning:
  • Consolidate outcomes of the detailed design for report-out.
  • Facilitate Knowledge Transfer planning workshops covering all aspects of the processes to be transitioned with clear alignment on scope, trainers, timelines, and ways of working.
• Recruitment, Onboarding, Knowledge Transfer (KT):
  • Participate in recruitment steer cos; ensure HR gets required support from business to hire at pace.
  • Align with IT requirements and raise provisioning requests in line with onboarding timelines.
  • Onboard new joiners and orient / deploy for KT in accordance with the KT plan.
• Stakeholder Management: Plan stakeholder connects at an agreed cadence to keep them informed of the transition progress. Maintain a stakeholder log evidencing stakeholder engagement (Actions from the meetings, follow up plans etc.)

Responsibilities:

• Provide strategic leadership for large, complex, multi-country transitions and operating model transformations.

• Own transition portfolio prioritization and resource planning in alignment with enterprise strategy.

• Act as escalation point for risks, issues, and cross-functional dependencies.

• Mentor and develop Managers and Leads within the Transition & Transformation team.

• Partner with senior business leaders to shape future transition opportunities and business cases.

• Drive standardization, best practices, and continuous improvement across transition methodology.

Experience (Senior Manager)

• 14+ years of progressive experience in large-scale transitions, transformations, or shared services environments.

• Demonstrated leadership of geographically distributed teams and senior executive stakeholders.

• Experience influencing strategy and decision-making at Director / VP levels.

You will be supported by colleagues who live the culture of making Haleon a diverse and inclusive employer. We believe in agile working for all roles. If flexibility is important to you, our hybrid philosophy will certainly support you to stretch, learn and grow every day. This is your invitation to make everyday health more achievable, more inclusive and more sustainable. 

Qualifications & Skills: 

• 14+ years demonstrated experience of transitioning processes from local markets to Shared Services Captives, Outsourcing partners etc.
• Transition management experience across multiple functions (Finance, Supply Chain, Procurement, Tech etc.) in a Consumer goods company is a plus, but not mandatory
• Demonstrated proficiency in project, program, portfolio management processes and principles
• Demonstrated experience delivering projects through both Agile and waterfall approach is desirable.
• Demonstrated resilience in navigating through complex and ambiguous change.
• Excellent interpersonal (communication and presentation) and organizational skills
• Hands on experience on PM tools – Example MS Project, MS P4W, Jira, Confluence, Teams
• Certifications – PMP, Prince 2

This is a unique opportunity to influence change, interact with global stakeholders on projects and programs that drive a real impact to the Haleon businesses. Your ability to ‘make things happen’ coupled with a ‘positive can-do attitude’ will set you up for success in this role.

 

 

 

 Job Posting End Date

 

 

2026-08-15

 

 

 

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.

 

 

 

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. 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

The Haleon recruitment team will contact you using a Haleon email account (@haleon.com). If you are not sure whether the email you received is from Haleon, please get in touch.