HRBL Global R&D at Haleon in Shanghai Qiantan Plaza

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. Role Summary The HR Business Leader (HRBL) partnering the China, APAC & India Sub-Continent (ISC) and MEA Operating Units works with the China, APAC & ISC and MEA R&D Heads (and their R&D Category Leadership Teams). The HRBL is a strategic partner, accountable for shaping the organisational, leadership and talent conditions required to accelerate innovation and growth. Lead with an enterprise mindset and create connections beyond functional boundaries to identify opportunities to enhance business performance and growth, through organisation effectiveness, strategic workforce planning, talent, capability and culture. Reporting to and working alongside with the Head of HR for Global R&D, the role acts as a trusted adviser, challenging leaders to think differently about how they organise, develop and deploy talent and enable future ready capabilities. This role plays a critical role to lead the R&D Talent transformation programme and ensuring that R&D has the leadership, talent and organisational effectiveness required in these areas to deliver Haleon's strategic ambitions. The HRBL provides a strategic partnership to senior RDLT leaders, contributing to delivering Haleon’s growth ambition and value creation. The role is accountable for: 1. Translating business priorities into integrated talent, capability, organisation, and workforce plan 2. Improving business performance and shaping culture. 3. Serving as a key member of the assigned RDLT Senior leaders’ leadership teams, challenging and coaching leaders to lead with enterprise growth mindset and build strong and effective teams. Key responsibilities With reference to R&D China, APAC & ISC, and MEA Operating Units, the HR Business Leader will: 1. Drive the effective implementation of enterprise-wide operating models and organizational design strategies, including support to the change management programme. Specifically, support and enable the Growth Acceleration plans for China and India with clear people agenda priorities. 2. Translate and embed the strategic workforce and capability plans within the business by leveraging synergies across R&D categories, OUs and Enabling functions. Proactively build the pipeline for critical, scarce and breakthrough capabilities to support the local for local, local for global and global for local business opportunities. 3. Partner with senior leaders to raise the performance bar, strengthen leadership accountability and cultivate a culture of high performance, growth and continues improvement 4. Drive the execution and embedding of enterprise-wide succession planning and talent pipeline strategies for flagged and critical leadership roles – spearheading the talent review and succession planning for senior roles in the assigned areas in R&D. 5. Act as a trusted advisor. coach and challenger to RDLT senior leaders, providing thought leadership, bringing external insights and challenging a wider enterprise perspective. 6. Raise the talent bar, especially on key leadership position influencing leaders to make bold, high-quality talent decisions, ensuring strong leadership pip