D&T Capability Manager

Haleon; City Of London; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading consumer health company in London seeks a Capability Manager to enhance digital capabilities across teams. You will represent the Digital & Tech organization, establishing governance and promoting continuous learning. Ideal candidates have experience in capability frameworks, workforce planning, and strong stakeholder engagement skills. The role offers a unique opportunity to shape the future of health innovation.

Benefits

Inclusive workplace culture

Agile working environment

Diverse workforce initiatives

Qualifications

• Experience in designing and managing capability frameworks across large organisations.
• Knowledge of workforce planning and skills gap analysis.
• Ability to influence and partner with senior stakeholders.
• Strong analytical skills to translate data into actionable plans.
• Experience in governance across federated teams.
• Strategic mindset to balance planning with delivery.
• Excellent communication skills for stakeholder engagement.

Responsibilities

• Represent D&T capability at enterprise forums.
• Work with teams to build consistent digital skills.
• Lead the D&T Capability Framework.
• Establish governance for capability initiatives.
• Develop tailored models to meet market needs.
• Ensure clarity in job roles across D&T.
• Promote a culture of continuous learning.
• Curate specialist learning journeys.
• Stay current with digital and AI trends.

Skills

Capability frameworks design

Workforce planning

Stakeholder engagement

Data and analytical skills

Governance

Strategic mindset

Communication skills

Job description

Hello. We’re Haleon. A new 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 of category-leading brands – including Sensodyne, Panadol, Advil, Voltaren, Theraflu, Otrivin, and Centrum – through a unique combination of deep human understanding and trusted science. 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. Care to join us. It isn’t a question.

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.

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

The Capability Manager within the Digital and Tech organisation is pivotal in setting our D&T colleagues up for future success, embodying Haleon's key behavior of "Grow Myself and Others." This role focuses on building digital capabilities and fostering a digitally-enabled culture across the organisation. It sits in the Digital & Tech Strategy, Architecture & Capability team.

Key responsibilities

• Represent D&T capability at the Haleon Learning Council and HR L&D forums, acting as the single point of contact to ensure an integrated approach to enterprise learning and skills development.
• Work with federated teams such as Data & AI, Security, SOX, Engineering and Product to build digital, data, AI and security skills consistently across Haleon.
• Lead the D&T Capability Framework and Job Family model, providing oversight and supporting job family leads to grow capability in their domains.
• Establish governance and ways of working to align capability initiatives across teams, avoiding duplication and driving consistency.
• Ensure flexibility in approach by developing archetypes or tailored models to meet different market and domain maturity levels.
• Ensure job roles are consistent across D&T to support mobility, workforce planning and clarity of career paths.
• Build out a centre of excellence with job family leads to share best practice and raise overall maturity.
• Track capability uplift against Haleon Digital Strategy priorities such as Digital, Data, AI, Agile and Architecture.
• Define and report on KPIs, providing regular updates to the D&T Leadership Team on progress, gaps and risks.
• Benchmark D&T capability maturity against industry standards to identify strengths and areas for improvement.
• Promote a culture of continuous learning and professional growth across D&T, including enabling Communities of Practice.
• Curate specialist learning journeys with SMEs to ensure relevant and engaging development opportunities.
• Stay current on digital and AI trends and translate them into practical capability initiatives.
• Partner with external learning providers to ensure offerings are relevant, value-driven and aligned to Haleon’s capability agenda

Qualifications and skills

Essential

• Proven experience in designing and managing capability frameworks and embedding them across large organisations.
• Strong knowledge of workforce planning, job family structures, and skills gap analysis.
• 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.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder engagement skills, able to represent D&T at enterprise forums.

Preferred

• Broad Digital & Tech functional knowledge (e.g. product, engineering, data, architecture, cyber).
• Experience with capability maturity models and industry benchmarking.
• Familiarity with change management methods and embedding cultural change.
• Knowledge of blended/hybrid learning delivery methods, platforms, and vendor management.

Care to join us. Find out what life at Haleon is really like www.haleon.com/careers/

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