Global Organisational Effectiveness Manager

12180 Haleon UK Services Limited; Greater London; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Haleon in London seeks an Organisational Effectiveness (OE) Manager to lead enterprise-wide operating model design, governance and strategic workforce planning. You will partner with senior leaders across HR, Finance and Transformation to translate strategy into actionable workforce models and capacity plans.

Reporting to the Head of OE, you will drive design standardization, manage organizational design governance, and embed metrics across planning cycles such as Integrated Growth Plan and

Qualifications

• Experience in organisational effectiveness, operating model design, and workforce planning.
• Ability to diagnose root causes and design pragmatic, scalable solutions.
• Strong commercial understanding connecting business strategy to workforce implications.
• Ability to translate analysis into actionable insight for senior stakeholders.
• Senior leader-level influencing skills across a global matrix organization.

Responsibilities

• Partner the Head of OE to shape and govern enterprise operating model evolution.
• Ensure robust organisational principles underpin strategy delivery and growth.
• Govern organizational design across the enterprise and manage target design and change requests.
• Collaborate with leaders to simplify structure and speed decision-making.
• Work with Culture/Employee Listening and Inclusion & Belonging to integrate metrics.
• Lead workforce planning across short, medium, and long-term horizons with People Solutions and Finance.
• Embed the framework in planning cycles: Integrated Growth Plan and Annual Business Plan.
• Evolve and maintain the enterprise Job Architecture framework.
• Identify external/internal factors affecting the future of work (AI, transformation).
• Collaborate with Data & Insights to enable data-driven workforce decisions.

Skills

Organisational effectiveness

Operating model design

Workforce planning

Analytical thinking

Stakeholder influence

Job description

Welcome to Haleon. We are a purpose-driven, world-class consumer company putting everyday health in the hands of millions. In just three years since our launch, we have 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.

As part of our new operating model, we are establishing a new Centre of Expertise for Organisational Effectiveness, Culture, Inclusion and Belonging. The CoE will play a pivotal role supporting the development and evolution of our organisation to underpin our Win As One strategy, ensuring we have the right structures, roles, ways of working, culture and capabilities in place.

Role Summary

The Organisational Effectiveness (OE) Manager drives Haleon’s Organisational Effectiveness and Strategic Workforce Planning to ensure Haleon is equipped with the right operating model, capacity and capability to deliver its growth and total shareholder return ambitions in a dynamically changing environment.

The role reports to the Head of Organisational Effectiveness and, as a high-impact individual contributor with no direct reports, influencing and leading through a broad network of senior leaders across the Operating Units, Finance, Transformation Office, HR People Solutions, HR Centres of Expertise (COEs) and the wider HR community to translate overall strategy into tangible implications for our organisational approach and future workforce, creating a single, enterprise-wide way of mobilising, governing and unlocking value from our organisation.

Key responsibilities

• Partner the Head of OE in leading enterprise-wide activities that shape, govern and track the ongoing evolution of our operating model.
• Ensure that robust organisational principles and discipline underpin enterprise-wide organisational strategy delivery, streamlining of the organisation, consumer connection, and long-term growth.
• Manage the governance of, and framework for organizational design across the enterprise, including acting as custodian of the target organisation design, manage change requests and exceptions in line with our design principles and cost target.
• Actively work with leaders to identify opportunities to refine and evolve the operating model in the respective parts of the organization including further simplification of structure, streamlining of ways of working, strengthening governance, clarifying decision rights and accountabilities, and driving speed of decision making.
• Work alongside Culture and Employee Listening, and Inclusion and Belonging peers in the CoE to integrate leading and lagging metrics such as inclusion, engagement and attrition.
• Manage Haleon’s enterprise-wide approach to strategic workforce planning over the short, medium and long-term horizons that ensures clarity of requirements and delivery of a future-fit workforce in close partnership with People Solutions and Finance.
• Embed the framework in the key planning cycles: Integrated Growth Plan (3 years) and Annual Business Plan (12 month).
• Support to evolve, iterate, maintain the enterprise’s Job Architecture framework.
• Identify and draw implications of the external and internal factors that will have significant impact on the future of work, workforce and capabilities – such as impact of AI, business transformation.
• Work with wider HR teams to develop and propose approaches to meeting the medium to long-term requirements (buy, borrow, build, etc).
• Work in close partnership with the Data & Insights team in HR People Solutions to ensure that Haleon has a robust, data-driven framework to inform organisational and workforce decisions that enable the enterprise to meet its objectives.

About you

• Relevant experience and expertise in organisational effectiveness, operating model design, and workforce planning.
• Highly analytical, strong systems thinker with the ability to diagnose root causes and design pragmatic, scalable solutions.
• Strong commercial understanding with the ability to connect business strategy to workforce implications.
• Able to translate analysis into actionable insight and communicate these clearly to senior stakeholders, working in close partnership with People Solutions and Finance.
• Senior leader-level influencing skills with credibility across HR and business; comfortable working across boundaries in a global, matrix organisation.
• Comfortable operating in complexity, ambiguity, and large-scale change environments.
• Strong external orientation and future-of-work trends.
• Experience managing a portfolio of projects or initiatives.

Why Join Us?

• The future of everyday health is changing. And we are the people changing it.
• In front of us is an incredible opportunity to go beyond what any of us have done before.
• And make everyday health more achievable, more inclusive and more sustainable for more and more people.
• So, join us, as we build one of the world’s leading consumer healthcare companies.
• Join us to innovate and grow our category-leading brands.
• To better understand people’s everyday health needs.
• To tackle the biggest barriers that stand in their way.
• To change individual and societal behaviour.
• Join us to work with colleagues who share your curiosity and restless energy.
• To explore your interests.
• To stretch yourself to do the best work of your career.
• And join us, as together we build a working experience that encourages us all to lead happier, healthier, more productive lives.
• The way we see it, every day is an opportunity for better.
• And we are going all in to realise it.

Job Posting End Date

2026-11-20

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.

Welcome to Haleon. We are a purpose-driven, world-class consumer company putting everyday health in the hands of millions. In just three years since our launch, we have 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.