Head of Laboratory Technologies

About The Role

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 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.

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

• 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.
• 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 the growth pipeline including but not limited to operational technologies, claims, smart labs, tech transfers, formulation and stability modeling.
• 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.

• Serves in the capacity of digital business partner, advisor, and bridge between the scientific and digital and data teams working closely with site leaderships, research scientists, analytical and medicinal chemists, formulators, packaging, consumer sensory and sentiments research teams by communicating digital opportunities in clear, compelling ways to senior stakeholders and cross‑functional teams.
• Delivers on portfolio of technology solutions and services to ensure day‑to‑day operations and make data and insights available for decision making at all stages of product innovations including integration and interoperability across supply chain and marketing functions.
• Oversees a portfolio of analytics projects and platforms, annual and long‑range budget management prioritizing initiatives that deliver high innovation impact, lower cost and accelerate growth pipeline across categories. Ensures efficient allocation of resources and drives accountability for delivering results.

• Master’s degree level or equivalent in relevant technology or scientific fields (e.g. Computer Science, MBA, computational sciences), with a deep understanding of…