R&D Quality Manager

Welcome to Haleon. We’re a purpose-driven world‑class consumer company putting everyday health in the hands of people. 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, inspires, and challenges us to be better every day driven by our agile performance-focused culture.

Are you a Quality Professional looking for a challenging opportunity to drive Quality improvement in Innovation and drive simplification? If so this could be a great position to explore.

The purpose of this role is to manage the overall Quality and Compliance activities from initial concept to consumer for new product introduction and product lifecycle activities.

As the Innovation & Product Lifecycle representative including MD Legal Manufacturer representative (when medical devices are in scope) this role is an extended core team member and performs the Quality activities in support of the NPI & Maintenance projects. He / she is the single point of contact for Quality during the development transfer and launch of new products and in addition lifecycle compliance management.

• Lead the Quality / Compliance activities for new product projects support from initial concept to consumer during the development and product transfer from R&D to site
• Extended core Team Member of assigned projects and Quality liaison for project from initial concept to consumer. Accountable to ensure all functional Quality support is provided to the project.
• Review and approve project related documents including product specification, batch documentation, test method, analytical validation report, method transfer process and product transfer protocol and reports and packaging documentation. Also oversee Change Control, Deviation and CAPAs for assigned projects
• Support clinical supplies activities including providing formal approval and release for clinical supplies registration samples and consumer test supplies.
• Integration of customer and consumer insights effectively into NPI projects ensuring ongoing innovation and development addresses customer and consumer demands & perform Hypercare following launches
• Provide leadership in the area of quality compliance.
• Quality partner to R&D and QSC building and maintaining effective collaboration detecting potential issues early resolving product challenges swiftly ensuring continuous improvement in our products reliability manufacturability testing capabilities and usability while maintaining compliance

We are looking for professionals with these required skills to achieve our goals :

Bachelors Degree in Pharmacy Science or equivalent level of knowledge understanding and hand on experience in a regulated environment

Minimum 5 years experience in the pharmaceutical industry related to Quality Assurance, Drug Regulatory Affairs, Technical Operations or Drug Development in a GMP environment

Excellent knowledge of key regulations in addition to GMP such as : ISO 13485 Medical Device Regulation 2017 / 745, Regulation 1223 / 2009 on cosmetic products and ISO 22716 GMP Guidelines for Cosmetics

Experience with the application of Quality Systems in R&D and manufacturing site

Ability to work independently and prioritize workload.

Excellent oral and written communication skills.

Strong interpersonal skills with an ability to enable and drive change.

Problem identification and solving skills.

Experience of working with multi-functional teams.

Haleon are committed to mobilising our purpose in a way that represents the diverse consumers and communities who rely on our…