Head of Laboratory Technologies

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 Head of Laboratory Technologies is responsible for the strategic and operational leadership of all technology functions supporting Haleon’s research laboratory network across all innovation categories and geographies with key hubs in Richmond, VA, Weybridge, UK, Slovakia, China and India. Reporting directly to Head of R&D Digital and Tech, this role will drive the vision, execution, and continuous improvement of lab technology platforms, product management, investment roadmaps, and operational excellence to enable the cutting‑edge innovation fully leveraging digital, data and AI technologies.

The role will lead and collaborate with cross‑functional teams, manage large‑scale technology investments, and ensure alignment with Haleon’s innovation and growth objectives. Haleon has embarked upon modernization and digitization of its R&D sites including a new HQ based Oral health site. This role will directly support and lead Digital and technology aspects of the multi‑year R&D lab transformation programs.

• R&D Lab Operations & Digital Technology Leadership Provides leadership and oversight of all digital investments in support of global Stability operations, formulations, Laboratory information management systems (LIMS), Electronic Lab notebooks (ELN), and end‑to‑end PLM capabilities ensuring facilities and analytical capabilities support across product portfolio.

• Digital Transformation Implement programs focused on digitization of Lab data, business processes, AI‑powered insights, and advance business informatics to optimize lab workflows and accelerate innovation growth.

• Operational Team Leadership Leads site‑based and global teams engaged in day‑to‑day operational support and collaborate with business leadership across categories to digitally enable processes standardization across all R&D labs enabling consistency, compliance, speed, and operational efficiency.

• Strategic Visioning and Thought Leadership Collaborate with research and category leadership team to establish the vision and strategy for technology, data and AI inspiring cross‑functional teams to enable advanced predictive modeling techniques in pursuit of breakthrough innovations ensuring alignment with Haleon’s R&D innovation growth goals and objectives.

• Digital Technology Roadmap Lead the creation and delivery of a multi‑year digital technology investment roadmap and provide digital thought leadership to strategically guide prioritization of initiatives that enable growth pipeline including but not limited to operational technologies, claims, smart labs, tech transfers, formulation and stability modeling.

• Technology Advocacy Advocate for technologies that keep us at the forefront of trusted science and enable rapid scaling of data‑driven business insights. Advocate and partner with R&D and central data teams to ensure data governance and quality for research data assets, and promote best practices in data science, reproducibility, and knowledge sharing across the organization.

• Digital Business Partner Serves in the capacity of Digital business partner, advisor, and bridge between scientific and digital and data teams working closely with site leaderships, research scientists, analytical and medicinal chemist, formulators,…