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.
Hello. We're Haleon, a world-leading consumer health company. Shaped by all who join us. Together, we're improving everyday health for billions of people by growing and innovating our global portfolio. With category-leading brands such as Sensodyne, Voltaren and Centrum, built on trusted science and human understanding, and combined with our passion, knowledge and expertise, we're uniquely placed to do this and to grow a strong, successful business.
What's more, we're achieving it in a company that we're in control of, in an environment that we're co-creating, and a culture that's uniquely ours.
This is an exciting time to join us and help shape the future it's an opportunity to be part of something special.
About The Role
We are seeking a
Senior Product Engineering Manager to lead a multidisciplinary team responsible for
Quality Assurance, Security & Compliance, and Architecture. This role requires a strong technical leader with a proven track record in leading HCM digital transformation initiatives. The candidate should have successfully set up and scaled engineering teams, driving end-to-end delivery of complex HR technology programs. Strong leadership, stakeholder management, and technical acumen are essential.
About The Role
This pivotal role will be a part of our corporate function's D&T Team. Reporting directly to the Head of HR, Legal & Compliance systems.
Key responsibilities
- Demand Management & Governance
- Program Management
- Architecture & Design
- Quality Management
- Security & Compliance
- Stakeholder Management
- Leadership & Development
About The Role
Requirements & Documentation Management
- Lead the gathering, analysis, and prioritization of business and technical requirements from diverse stakeholders, ensuring clarity and traceability throughout the product lifecycle.
- Maintain comprehensive documentation covering system architecture, security, compliance, and operational processes, ensuring accessibility and audit readiness.
Demand & Program Delivery Management
- Oversee and prioritize incoming requests and requirements across engineering teams.
- Balance resources and capacity planning to meet product and business objectives.
- Act as a Scrum/Agile Program Manager, driving sprint planning, backlog prioritization, and delivery timelines.
- Collaborate with Product Managers to manage demand effectively and avoid delivery bottlenecks.
- Manage program scope, timelines, and resources, ensuring delivery against agreed milestones and budgets.
- Ensure alignment between engineering execution and product roadmap.
Technical & Compliance Oversight
- Oversee architectural decisions to ensure scalability, security, and performance.
- Drive compliance with industry standards and regulatory requirements (e.g., GDPR, SOx).
- Champion quality assurance processes and automated testing strategies.
- SOx oversight for the capability: ensuring we comply with SOx requirements by embedding robust control frameworks into product operations this may span designing and implementing controls to overseeing training, audit readiness, and continuous improvement. This SOx Compliance ensures our financial reporting applications are secure, reliable, and auditable - minimizing risk and supporting regulatory integrity.
Collaboration & Stakeholder Management
- Partner closely with Product Managers to define requirements and deliver customer-centric solutions.
- Communicate progress, risks, and mitigation strategies to senior leadership.
- Align engineering priorities with business objectives.
- Manage relationships with external vendors and service providers, including performance monitoring and escalation of service issues.
Qualifications & Skills Essential
- 14+ years of experience in working in an agile methodology with teams and stakeholders across a global environment.
- Proven experience managing quality, security, compliance, and architecture teams.
- Proficiency in project management methodologies, team leadership, and agile practices is important. This includes skills in resource allocation, risk management, timeline planning, and ensuring the team's productivity and efficiency to meet business objectives.
- Experience in HR SaaS or enterprise product development.
Preferred Skills
- Significant experience successfully delivering complex projects to a high standard and within short timeframes. Desirable recent examples of delivery of data or technology products/projects
- Desirable experience working with remote teams, based offshore.
- Experience in prioritising a product backlog based on a variety of inputs, including business need, architectural complexity, skills availability etc.
- Desirable experience working with Jira to manage product backlogs.
- Desirable experience working with key product artefacts to support user research, articulate and assess value including, User Personas, User Journeys, Leading and Lagging Metrics, and calculating the Cost of Delay etc.
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.
Job Posting End Date
2026-01-22
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.
