Head of R&D Sites

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.

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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.

In WorkPlace Solutions (WPS) our unique contribution will accelerate Haleon's success by transforming the employee experience, inspiring everyone to be their best wherever they work.

WPS team is responsible for the full lifecycle of planning, execution, procurement and operations of Haleon's real estate portfolio consisting of complex R&D facilities, office buildings, and sales office sites. The sites may be owned, leased or be occupied through a serviced space arrangement. WPS works in close collaboration with our Global Support Function partners (Tech, HR, EHS, Legal etc) and relies extensively on our network of vendor partners to deliver a safe, productive and desirable work environment for all users of our sites.
This is an exciting time to join us and help shape the future. It's an opportunity to be part of something special.

Role Overview
The WPS R&D sites head is responsible for development and delivery of the E2E real estate, capital improvement and facilities management strategy at both Haleon R&D sites (Weybridge and Richmond), ensuring regulatory needs, cost, quality and compliance metrics are achieved. The role works with the R&D site leadership and is required to deliver a coherent, joined up approach to employee experience and aligning to their customers business strategy, along with delivering the technical and regulatory needs of these sites.

This is a high impact, high complexity role with significant scope that spans across multiple areas and suppliers.

In this role you will...

• Partner with the R&D leadership to strategically develop and evolve WPS strategy for the sites.
• Establish and develop external relationships in the region and beyond, to optimize WPS operations, real estate and capital services to best serve our employees at the R&D sites
• The role is required to customise the WPS strategy for the R&D sites and deliver them
• Bring the technical expertise to identify, develop and grow a diverse professional team of best suited 3rd party providers accountable for the delivery of a world class end to end Real Estate and Facilities function for the sites.
• Work closely with cross-functional (e.g. HR, Tech, procurement etc to ensure WPS's services are integrated as part of a joined up, cohesive approach to employee experience.
• Assume full accountability for the delivery of OPEX and CAPEX budgets, ensuring financial acumen across their organization and responsibility for budget delivery
• Responsible for local delivery of all facilities and services for the R&D sites, ensuring cost, quality and compliance targets are achieved by key contract partners.
• Develop and embed contract governance processes and structures to ensure value and delivery in the Service provider contracts, and to ensure effective risk management controls are in place.
• Accountable for the prioritization and delivery of a program of capital projects (including minor works, infrastructure, business driven and energy projects) for the sites, working closely with the Real Estate and Capital leads and managing 3rd party project managers.
• Align R&D needs and lead real estate transaction activities fin partnership with the Real Estate and Capital leads.
• Lead the onboarding of any new R&D sites into WPS management, ensuring thorough due diligence, solution development and service integration.
• Validate performance reporting and ensure appropriate metrics are delivered by the service providers to key internal stakeholders.
• Uphold and ensure compliance with internal HALEON policies, standards, procedures, alerts and relevant external regulatory requirements with respect to Quality, Statutory and Environmental Health and Safety (EHS) requirements.

Key Responsibilities

Business partnering & stakeholder management in Haleon

• Build strategic relationship with a network of senior Haleon stakeholders, to understand R&D and business requirements, identify opportunities to create value and to position WPS's value proposition.
• Influence key stakeholders to support strategy development endorse recommend strategies, support execution and agree how benefit delivery will be budgeted

Strategy execution

• Align with broader WPS team and work in collaboration with them to provide local site requirements and market information
• Bring technical know how to customise the WPS strategy specifically for the R&D sites
• Execute strategies in scope of responsibility aligned with the requirements of stakeholders

Drive operational efficiency

• Challenge requirements and educate stakeholder to drive maximum contract and policy compliance, employee experience and strategy alignment
• Drive operational simplification across WPS areas and processes in scope

External supplier relationships

• Build strategic relationships with key regional/local suppliers at a senior level and lead processes to ensure value is driven from these relationships. Ensure local considerations are accounted global & regional supplier relationships.
• Ensure regional considerations are taken into account in global supplier negotiations and contracts
• Develop and Implement Operational excellence strategies and plans for key regional/local suppliers to drive improvements against KPIs.

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When applying for this role, please use the cover letter, the online application or your CV to describe how you meet the competencies for this role, as outlined in the job requirements above. The information that you have provided in your cover letter and CV will be used to as sess your application.

Qualifications & Skills:

• Preferred Level of Education: Master's Degree
• Area of Specialization: Engineering, Facilities, Real Estate related discipline

Minimum Level of Job-Related Experience Required:

• Significant professional Facility services or Real Estate experience in a comparable large, complex company
• Significant leadership experience (5+ years at Director level or above)
• Strong capability to execute; this is core to the role
• Strategy development and implementation; strong value creation capability
• Strong stakeholder management and strategic influencing skills
• Strong capability to drive accountability
• Strong business and financial acumen
• Strong technical expertise
• Demonstrated decision making capability
• Demonstrated relationship management skills
• Demonstrated programme management capability
• Understanding of legal/ compliance/ regulatory frameworks
• Strong external orientation

Why is this level of experience required?

• The role holder is expected to be able to influence senior leaders effectively.
• The role holder is expected to be able to deliver significant transformation and change.
• The role holder is expected to be able to develop and deliver WPS strategies that are aligned with the business's requirements.
• The role holder is expected to lead R&D site WPS strategy
• The role holder is expected to manage significant projects.
• The role holder is expected to have significant external supplier and market knowledge.
• The role holder is expected to be able to benchmark externally to identify new opportunities and ensure competitive performance and is expected to be able to identify best practices externally and implement them in HALEON.

Diversity, Equity and Inclusion
At Haleon we embrace our diverse workforce by creating an inclusive environment that celebrates our unique perspectives, generates curiosity to create unmatched understanding of each other, and promotes fair and equitable outcomes for everyone.

We're striving to create a climate where we celebrate our diversity in all forms by treating each other with respect, listening to different viewpoints, supporting our communities, and creating a workplace where your authentic self belongs and thrives.

We believe in an agile working culture for all our roles. If flexibility is important to you, we encourage you to explore with our hiring team what the opportunities are.

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At Haleon we embrace our diverse workforce by creating an inclusive environment that celebrates our unique perspectives, generates curiosity to create unmatched understanding of each other, and promotes fair and equitable outcomes for everyone. We're striving to create a climate where we celebrate our diversity in all forms by treating each other with respect, listening to different viewpoints, supporting our communities, and creating a workplace where your authentic self belongs and thrives. We believe in an agile working culture for all our roles. If flexibility is important to you, we encourage you to explore with our hiring team what the opportunities are. As you apply, we will ask you to share some personal information, which is entirely voluntary. We want to have an opportunity to consider a diverse pool of qualified candidates and this information will assist us in meeting that objective and in understanding how well we are doing against our inclusion and diversity ambitions. We would really appreciate it if you could take a few moments to complete it. Rest assured, Hiring Managers do not have access to this information and we will treat your information confidentially. Haleon is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive equal consideration for employment without regard to race, color, national origin, religion, sex, pregnancy, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, age, disability, genetic information, military service, covered/protected veteran status or any other federal, state or local protected class. Please note that if you are a US Licensed Healthcare Professional or Healthcare Professional as defined by the laws of the state issuing your license, Haleon may be required to capture and report expenses Haleon incurs, on your behalf, in the event you are afforded an interview for employment. This capture of applicable transfers of value is necessary to ensure Haleon's compliance to all federal and state US Transparency requirements.

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