Haleon
Website:
haleon.com
Company:
https://www.linkedin.com/company/haleon
Industries: Consumer Services
Job details:
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 HR Business Partner for HBS Capability Centers (
HRBP – HBS, India & Malaysia) will partner with senior leaders across both centers to deliver the people agenda in support of HBS business priorities. This is a dual role, based in Bangalore, with accountability for HR business partnering in the India and Malaysia Capability Centers, including providing leadership support to the Malaysia Capability Center as a member of the Malaysia Center Leadership Team.
The role will act as a trusted advisor to business leaders, translating center and functional priorities into integrated people plans that enable performance, engagement, retention, organizational effectiveness and long-term capability building. Operating in a global matrix environment, the role will collaborate closely with global HRBPs, HR Centers of Excellence and local HR teams to deliver consistent, scalable and business-focused HR solutions across India and Malaysia.
Role Responsibilities
- Act as trusted advisor to HBS Capability center(s) leaders in India and Malaysia, translating business priorities into people plans, workforce strategies, and organization interventions.
- Partner with Malaysia Center Leadership Team to align people priorities with center objectives and help drive operational excellence in the center.
- Provide HR leadership and advisory support to functional groups across both centers, balancing local market context with consistent HBS ways of working.
- Review and analyze people data and business insights to identify trends, risks and opportunities related to performance, retention, engagement, workforce planning and employee experience for the functional groups supported in India and Malaysia
- Provide actionable insights through monthly and quarterly people reviews, enabling leaders to make informed people and organization decisions.
- Partner with global HRBPs and HR Centers of Excellence on organization effectiveness, grading, talent, reward, employee relations, team culture and people risks
- Collaborate with leaders and the Talent Acquisition team to deliver excellence in hiring decisions for the functional groups supported in India and Malaysia
- As part of ‘One HR’ team for HBS, develop and execute leadership development programs and talent initiatives across all Capability Centers to build a pipeline of ‘future-fit’ leaders and key talent through structured interventions such as Job rotation, mentorship and leadership forums
- Drive delivery of key annual people processes for supported groups in India and Malaysia, including performance, talent, engagement, reward and succession activities.
- Support initiatives that foster inclusion, belonging and high performance, while contributing to Inclusion & Belonging priorities.
- Coach leaders and managers to lead inclusively, build team effectiveness, improve manager capability and embed an agile high performance culture.
Why you?
Basic Qualifications:
- 10+ years of experience in a HR Business Partner role or similar strategic HR role, demonstrating an understanding of the full employee life cycle and ability to work with autonomy on the HR agenda.
- Proven experience partnering with senior leaders in a matrixed, global or multi-country environment.
- Strong business partnering capability, with the ability to translate business priorities into practical people plans and measurable outcomes.
- Strong analytical skills, with experience using HR data and insights to diagnose trends, identify risks and recommend actions.
- Strong stakeholder management, communication and influencing skills, with confidence to advise and challenge leaders at different levels.
- Demonstrated ability to manage confidential and sensitive matters with sound judgement and professionalism.
- Some experience working across multiple countries, geographies and cultures, especially broader APAC is preferable given the dual India and Malaysia scope of the role.
Preferred Qualifications:
- You possess strong organisational and analytical skills and derive insights from data to support business decisions.
- You are comfortable navigating complex, fast-paced environments and are able to pivot quickly to changing business needs and work with ambiguity
- You are able to develop strong relationships quickly and can collaborate across different stakeholder groups.
- A passion to drive cultural change and foster an inclusive environment
- Experience and energy to deliver high engagement initiatives
Location – Bangalore
Reports to: HR BP Lead for the India Capability Centre
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Job Posting End Date
2026-08-29
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.
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