About this role
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
The Head of Strategic Delivery Planning & Governance is a Director‑level leadership role within Haleon’s Digital & Technology (D&T) organisation, sitting in the Performance, Transformation & Delivery function.
The role is accountable for ensuring D&T operates with one coherent, integrated delivery and governance model across Agile and Waterfall delivery, portfolio planning, run‑and‑maintain activity, third‑party delivery engagement, and performance reporting.
It provides the connective tissue between strategy, portfolio planning, delivery execution, governance, partner oversight and leadership reporting, ensuring D&T operates as a single, controlled system rather than a collection of disconnected processes.
Key responsibilities
1. Enterprise Delivery & Governance Framework Ownership
Define, own and maintain Haleon’s single D&T delivery and governance framework, integrating Agile, Waterfall and hybrid approaches.
Ensure clarity on roles, decision rights, governance forums, lifecycle stages and escalation paths across D&T.
Ensure governance is proportionate, outcome‑focused and enables timely decision‑making.
2. Alignment with Portfolio & Planning
Partner closely with the Head of Portfolio & Planning to ensure delivery frameworks align seamlessly with portfolio management, prioritisation and investment governance.
Ensure consistent lifecycle gating, artefacts and controls from idea intake through delivery and benefits realisation.
Support translation of D&T strategy into executable, governed delivery plans.
3. Strategic Run & Maintain Programme Governance
Design and operate a strategic Run & Maintain governance forum covering non‑transformational programmes, services and investments.
Ensure run initiatives have clear objectives, business outcomes, success measures and accountable owners.
Challenge investment where operational spend does not demonstrably contribute to business value, resilience or risk reduction.
4. Third‑Party Delivery Partner Governance & Oversight
Own the governance model for third‑party delivery partner engagement across D&T, working in partnership with Procurement, Delivery Excellence and Supplier Performance roles.
Provide strategic input into delivery partner selection, ensuring partners align to Haleon’s delivery frameworks, governance standards and operating model.
Ensure delivery partner performance, risks and dependencies are visible within enterprise governance and addressed through appropriate escalation and intervention.
5. Delivery Performance Reporting & Leadership Insight
Ensure consistent, timely and trusted reporting of delivery performance across D&T programmes, portfolios and run activity.
Define standard views, measures and narratives for reporting to the D&T Leadership Team, ExCo and senior leaders.
Ensure reporting provides clear insight into progress, risks, dependencies, outcomes and required decisions — not just status.
Act as the custodian of “single version of the truth” delivery performance data.
6. Business Outcomes & Value Discipline
Ensure all governed initiatives — transformational and non‑transformational — are explicitly linked to defined business outcomes and benefits.
Drive consistency in how outcomes, KPIs and benefits are defined, governed and reported.
Enable leadership to understand trade‑offs between cost, risk, pace and value.
7. Governance Effectiveness & Continuous Improvement
Continually assess and improve governance effectiveness, removing duplication, friction and non‑value‑adding forums.
Ensure governance supports delivery pace while maintaining appropriate control in regulated and business‑critical areas.
Act as the guardian of governance integrity and consistency across D&T.
Why you?
Basic Qualifications:
Extensive experience in enterprise D&T planning, governance or delivery excellence roles
Proven ownership of delivery and governance frameworks across Agile and Waterfall
Strong understanding of portfolio management, investment governance and delivery lifecycles
Experience operating in environments with significant third‑party delivery dependencies
Strong experience producing executive‑level delivery performance reporting
Executive‑level stakeholder engagement and decision‑support capability
Preferred Qualifications:
Experience in large‑scale, complex or regulated organisations
Background in transformation, delivery excellence or enterprise portfolio roles
Strong commercial and partner governance awareness
Experience operating Run‑the‑Business governance models
Job Posting End Date
2026-06-30
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.
About Haleon
Consumer healthcare company spun off from GSK, making brands like Sensodyne, Advil, and Centrum. Based in Weybridge, UK.
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