Capability Manager Secondment

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 role sits within the D&T Capability team, reporting to the Head of Strategy, Architecture and Capability and leads the development and execution of D&T capability strategy, ensuring the organisation has the skills required to deliver current priorities and future strategic ambitions. The role provides thought leadership, insight and advisory services on workforce capability requirements, capability-building approaches and learning investments.

 Key Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain a view of current workforce capability
• Analyse future capability requirements based on D&T strategy, transformation priorities, project demand and emerging technology trends and identify strengths, risks and gaps in capability.
• Produce data-driven insights and strategic recommendations to inform workforce planning and capability investment decisions.
• Own the D&T Job Families Skill and Responsibility frameworks, including continuous evolution and governance to ensure alignment with current and future D&T roles.
• Partner with Job Family/ D&T Pillar leads, and program Capability leads to Identify and recommend appropriate learning solutions/ interventions, best practices and training providers.
• Influence senior stakeholders through insight-led recommendations and evidence-based proposals.
• Partner with HR to embed the Job Family skill and responsibility frameworks into our people processes.
• Act as a central coordination point for D&T capability initiatives, ensuring alignment, visibility and knowledge sharing
• Champion a culture of continuous learning, career development and capability ownership across D&T.

Qualifications and Skills

Essential

• Strong knowledge of workforce planning and learning strategies
• Demonstrated ability to influence and partner with senior stakeholders across HR, business units and technology.
• Strong data and analytical skills, with ability to translate insights into clear reporting and actionable plans.
• Experience in establishing governance and ways of working across federated teams.
• Strategic mindset with the ability to balance long-term planning with pragmatic delivery

 Preferred

• Broad Digital & Tech functional knowledge (e.g. product, engineering, data, architecture, cyber).
• Experience with capability maturity models and industry benchmarking.
• Experience embedding skills frameworks and capability models within organisations to deliver maximum value

 Job Posting End Date

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.