Haleon
Website:
haleon.com
Company:
https://www.linkedin.com/company/haleon
Seniority: Not Applicable
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
Technical Lead – Formulations & Packaging Technologies provides
hands on technical leadership to support the digitization of
formulation, ingredient, substance, and packaging data across Haleon R&D.
Working closely with the
Product Manager, Product Experts, and
Architects, this role is responsible for translating requirements into
fit for purpose technical designs, guiding configuration and build activities, and ensuring solutions align with
SAP S/4HANA IPD and R&D ways of working.
The role plays a key part in ensuring
data quality, integration integrity, and delivery consistency for formulation and packaging capabilities.
Role Responsibilities
Technical Delivery & Solution Support
- Provide hand son technical leadership for formulation and packaging systems within the Starlink program.
- Translate business and scientific requirements into detailed technical designs, configurations, and data structures.
- Support solution build and configuration activities delivered by internal teams and vendors.
- Ensure technical solutions are scalable, maintainable, and aligned to standards.
Formulation & Packaging Data Digitization
- Support digitization and harmonization of:
- Formulation compositions and structures
- Ingredient and substance data
- Packaging specifications and attributes
- Ensure structured, high quality data enabling traceability from substance → formulation → packaging → SKU.
- Support data migration, validation, and quality assurance activities.
SAP S/4HANA IPD Enablement
- Provide hands on technical support for SAP S/4HANA IPD related to formulation and packaging.
- Contribute to design and configuration aligned to IPD data models and processes.
- Support integration between IPD, Starlink platforms, and other R&D systems.
- Work under architectural guidance to ensure alignment with the broader S/4HANA program
Configuration, Integration & Release Support
- Review and support configuration and build activities across formulation and packaging systems.
- Support integration testing and defect resolution across connected platforms.
- Assist with release planning, deployment readiness, and post release validation.
- Work closely with Testing and DevOps teams to ensure quality and stability.
Quality, Compliance & Documentation
- Execute technical activities in line with GxP, validation, and security requirements.
- Support preparation of technical documentation, design artefacts, and validation evidence.
- Identify technical risks and escalate appropriately.
Collaboration & Ways of Working
Product Managers (priorities and roadmap)
Product Experts (scientific and packaging requirements)
Architects (design standards and guardrails)
Vendors and delivery partners
- Act as a reliable technical point of contact for formulation and packaging technologies.
Why you?
Basic Qualifications:
- Degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Pharmaceutical Sciences, Packaging Technology, or related discipline.
- 6–9 years of experience supporting digital solutions for R&D formulation and/or packaging systems.
- Handson experience in digitizing formulation and packaging data.
- Practical experience working with SAP S/4HANA IPD (configuration, integration, or delivery support).
- Understanding of R&D formulation and packaging processes.
- Experience working in regulated (GxP) environments.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Clear communication skills and ability to work with global teams.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience in Life Sciences or Consumer Health R&D.
- Exposure to ingredient and substance master data concepts.
- Experience supporting large transformation program (e.g. formulation or PLM initiatives).
- Familiarity with cloud based platforms and integrations.
- Experience working with system integrators or vendors.
- Senior hands-on technical contributor
- Focused on execution, solution quality, and data integrity
- Operates under defined architecture and product direction
- Key enabler for Starlink delivery success
Job Posting End Date
2026-08-25
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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