Senior Manager, Advanced Analytics, AI & Digital Solutions

Haleon; Greater London; On-site; GBP 110,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

Haleon is seeking a Senior Manager of Advanced Analytics to lead the Digital Foundry portfolio, translating strategy into executable roadmaps and ensuring AI, modelling, and digital solutions deliver measurable business outcomes across Quality and Supply Chain.

You will coordinate multidisciplinary teams, steer delivery from concept to deployment, and align business priorities with technical delivery and value realization. The role emphasizes collaboration, governance, and continuous improvement.

Qualifications

• Significant experience delivering analytics, AI, modelling, optimisation, digital transformation, or technology-enabled business solutions.
• Proven experience leading a portfolio of concurrent analytics, AI, modelling, or digital‑product initiatives from planning through deployment and adoption.
• Strong understanding of supply chain, manufacturing, operations, quality, or related business domains.
• Demonstrated experience managing multidisciplinary technical and cross‑functional delivery teams.
• Experience establishing product roadmaps, prioritised backlogs, release plans, and measurable delivery outcomes.
• Demonstrated ability to translate strategic priorities and value objectives into executable delivery plans.
• Experience managing delivery dependencies, risks, resources, and competing priorities.
• Experience translating business requirements into scalable digital solutions.
• Strong stakeholder management, influencing, and communication skills.
• Experience working within agile or product‑centric delivery environments.
• Strong analytical, problem‑solving, and decision‑making capabilities.
• Experience with modern analytics, AI, modelling, optimisation, or cloud‑based technology platforms.

Responsibilities

• Lead Solution Delivery Lead coordinated execution and delivery of approved Digital Foundry initiatives from solution concept through development, deployment, adoption, and benefits realisation.
• Translate portfolio priorities and value objectives into executable product roadmaps, delivery plans, release schedules, and resource requirements.
• Manage multiple initiatives across the Digital Foundry portfolio.
• Ensure delivery milestones, outcomes, benefits, and adoption targets are achieved.
• Remove delivery barriers and proactively manage risks, dependencies, and escalations across initiatives.
• Product & Portfolio Management Lead product planning, backlog management, prioritisation, and release planning across the portfolio.

Skills

Analytics leadership

AI & ML

Portfolio management

Stakeholder management

Agile delivery

Cross-functional leadership

Product roadmaps

Education

Data Science

Engineering

Computer Science

Job description

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.

The Senior Manager, Advanced Analytics, AI & Digital Solutions is responsible for leading delivery of the Digital Foundry portfolio and ensuring AI, modelling, optimisation, and digital solutions are successfully translated from strategy into measurable business outcomes.

Reporting to the Director, Supply Chain AI Solutions, the role acts as the delivery leader for Digital Foundry initiatives, converting portfolio priorities into executable roadmaps, coordinating multidisciplinary delivery teams, and ensuring successful deployment, adoption, and value realisation across the portfolio.

The successful candidate will combine strong business understanding, technical credibility, product delivery expertise, and people leadership capabilities to drive execution of high-value digital solutions across Quality and Supply Chain.

What You’ll Do

• Lead Solution Delivery Lead coordinated execution and delivery of approved Digital Foundry initiatives from solution concept through development, deployment, adoption, and benefits realisation.
• Translate portfolio priorities and value objectives into executable product roadmaps, delivery plans, release schedules, and resource requirements.
• Manage multiple initiatives across the Digital Foundry portfolio.
• Ensure delivery milestones, outcomes, benefits, and adoption targets are achieved.
• Remove delivery barriers and proactively manage risks, dependencies, and escalations across initiatives.
• Product & Portfolio Management Lead product planning, backlog management, prioritisation, and release planning across the portfolio.
• Oversee delivery execution from initiation through deployment and operational adoption.
• Ensure alignment between business priorities, technical delivery activities, and value‑realisation objectives.
• Support portfolio governance, delivery reporting, and benefits‑tracking activities.
• Balance competing priorities, resources, and delivery capacity to maximise overall portfolio value.
• Technical Leadership Provide technical and product delivery leadership across AI, optimisation, modelling, simulation, analytics, and digital solutions.
• Direct and oversee development activities delivered by Digital Foundry teams.
• Review solution approaches and ensure alignment with architecture, standards, quality expectations, scalability requirements, and business objectives.
• Promote reusable solutions, delivery best practices, and technical excellence.
• Ensure effective application of machine learning, optimisation, simulation, generative AI, and emerging digital capabilities.
• Business Partnership Partner with business leaders and the Director, Supply Chain AI Solutions to refine priority opportunities into clearly defined use cases, delivery requirements, and measurable outcomes.
• Facilitate discovery workshops, solution planning activities, and delivery reviews.
• Communicate delivery progress, value, risks, trade-offs, and recommendations to stakeholders.
• Support successful adoption and business integration of Digital Foundry solutions.
• Ensure stakeholders remain aligned on scope, priorities, benefits, and delivery expectations.
• Team Leadership Lead, coach, and develop technical team members across analytics, AI, modelling, and digital solution disciplines.
• Set objectives, manage performance, develop capability, and build succession pipelines across the Digital Foundry team.
• Build capability in digital product delivery, technical leadership, and solution execution.
• Plan and deploy internal and external delivery capacity across the portfolio.
• Balance specialist capability requirements with business priorities and delivery commitments.
• Foster collaboration, accountability, continuous improvement, and high-performance team behaviours.

What Success Looks Like

• Reliable delivery of the Digital Foundry portfolio.
• Strong business adoption of deployed solutions.
• High‑performing technical and delivery teams.
• Effective prioritisation and backlog management.
• Consistent delivery of measurable business value.
• Successful conversion of approved opportunities into scaled, sustainable digital solutions.

Qualifications & Skills Essential

• Significant experience delivering analytics, AI, modelling, optimisation, digital transformation, or technology-enabled business solutions.
• Proven experience leading a portfolio of concurrent analytics, AI, modelling, or digital‑product initiatives from planning through deployment and adoption.
• Strong understanding of supply chain, manufacturing, operations, quality, or related business domains.
• Demonstrated experience managing multidisciplinary technical and cross‑functional delivery teams.
• Experience establishing product roadmaps, prioritised backlogs, release plans, and measurable delivery outcomes.
• Demonstrated ability to translate strategic priorities and value objectives into executable delivery plans.
• Experience managing delivery dependencies, risks, resources, and competing priorities.
• Experience translating business requirements into scalable digital solutions.
• Strong stakeholder management, influencing, and communication skills.
• Experience working within agile or product‑centric delivery environments.
• Strong analytical, problem‑solving, and decision‑making capabilities.
• Experience with modern analytics, AI, modelling, optimisation, or cloud‑based technology platforms.

Preferred Degree

• Preferred Degree in Data Science, Engineering, Computer Science, Mathematics, Supply Chain, Operations Research, or related discipline.
• Advanced degree preferred.

Experience in consumer healthcare, FMCG, manufacturing or complex supply chain environments.

Job Posting End Date 2026-10-08

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’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.