Programme Governance Manager

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 Programme Governance Manager will operate within a large-scale, business led transformation enabled by SAP S/4 HANA and other technologies. They will apply a practical understanding of the SAP delivery lifecycle to ensure governance remains aligned across business transformation, technology delivery, and deployment.

Working closely with the Programme Governance Lead, PMO Lead and programme leadership, the role uses governance data, sound judgement and constructive challenge to drive governance discipline, remove barriers and support effective decision-making, protecting programme outcomes, value and business continuity.

• Operate and embed the programme governance framework, ensuring it is consistently applied across work streams, phases and governance forums.
• Translate governance principles, decision rights and escalation routes into practical and effective ways of working.
• Provide governance integration across scope, milestones, RAID, change control, financials, benefits, assurance and supplier delivery performance, using outputs owned by the relevant PMO and functional leads.
• Ensure governance operates as one integrated model, maintaining effective interfaces between work streams and delivery partners.
• Monitor governance effectiveness, identifying areas where delivery is impacted by delayed decisions, unclear ownership, weak escalation or ineffective controls.
• Maintain governance artefacts, calendars and supporting documentation, ensuring they remain aligned as the programme evolves.
• Coordinate governance evidence for key SAP S/4 HANA delivery stage gates (e.g. design completion, build readiness, go-live, and hyper care exit) and readiness assessments, identifying gaps and providing a clear recommendation on whether entry and exit conditions have been met.
• Ensure governance records and evidence are maintained to a standard suitable for Independent Programme Assurance (IPA), Internal Audit and External Audit scrutiny.

• Ensure governance forums operate effectively with clear objectives, decision rights and expected outcomes.
• Maintain visibility of governance decisions, actions and escalations, ensuring they are clearly documented, communicated and progressed through the appropriate accountable owners.
• Proactively intervene where actions, commitments or governance deliverables are at risk of delay, working through the appropriate accountable owner.
• Support the Programme Governance Lead in assessing which governance matters require escalation and which can be managed at programme level.
• Coordinate agreed Independent Programme Assurance activity in line with programme phases and key milestones.
• Partner with the Transformation Office Portfolio team to support enterprise transformation governance requirements.