Portfolio & Performance Lead - R&D

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.

Role overview

The Performance & Portfolio Lead - R&D plays a key role in enabling a D&T Pillar tooperateas ahigh‑performing, strategically aligned function withinHaleon’sDigital & Technologyorganization.

Working closely with a D&T Leadership Team member, this role translates strategy into clear, structured plans and a well-governed portfolio, ensuring it is actively managed and delivers measurable outcomes. It drives alignment, performance visibility, financial transparency, and disciplined execution, supported by strong governance and consistent ways of working across all D&T Pillars.

As a trusted partner to senior leadership, the role brings clarity in complex environments, ensuresprioritizationacross competing demands, and enables effective decision-making through insightful performance management, governance, and communication. This is a highly visible role requiring strong analytical capability, executive presence, and the ability to influence senior stakeholders across D&T and the wider business.

Key accountabilities

• Define and manage the Pillar’s annual andmulti‑yeardelivery and operational portfolio in partnership with the D&T LT member

• Ensure consistent portfolio management aligned with Strategic Portfolio Management Office /CoEstandards

• Support Integrated Growth Plan (long-range planning) and Annual Business Plan development

• Provide clear, consistent performance and financial insight throughhigh‑qualityreporting

• Identify, assess, and manage operational and compliance risks at Pillar level

• Facilitate key governance forums, including Monthly Operational Reviews and Quarterly Business Reviews

If you thrive in a high-impact, strategic role and enjoy bringing structure, clarity, and performance focus to complex environments,we’dlove to hear from you!

Key responsibilities

1. Strategic Portfolio Definition & Management

• Work closely with a D&T LT member and their leadership team to define,manageand evolve the Pillar’s delivery and operational portfolio.

• Maintain a single, coherent view of all programmes, workstreams and initiatives within scope.

• Ensure priorities, dependencies and delivery plansremainaligned to strategicobjectives.

2. Portfolio Consistency & Governance Discipline

• Ensure portfolio management is carried out in a consistent way, aligned to the Strategic Portfolio Management Office /CoEdirection.

• Apply common approaches to prioritisation, performance tracking, change control and escalation.

• Coordinate andoperategovernance forums, ensuring decisions are taken, actions tracked and outcomes delivered.

3. Planning Cycles & Strategic Alignment

• Lead the Pillar’s annual and quarterly planning cycles, includingobjectives, OKRs, roadmaps and inputs to budget planning.

• Support Integrated Growth Plan (long‑range planning) and Annual Business Plan build‑out, ensuring delivery and operational portfolios align to strategic intent.

• Translate strategy into clear plans,milestonesand measurable outcomes.

4. Performance, Risk & Insight

• Implement robust portfolio and performance reporting, enabling effective tracking of progress, risks,issuesand outcomes.

• Helpidentifyand manage operational and compliance risks at Pillar level, ensuring visibility, mitigation planning and escalation whererequired.

• Bring clarity to complex situations by synthesising data,insightsand trade‑offs for leadership.

5. Financial Reporting & Partnership

• Work closely with Finance Operational Analysts and central Financeto ensureclear,consistentand trusted financial reporting across the portfolio.

• Support tracking of spend, forecasts and variances, translating financial data into meaningful insights fornon‑finance leaders.

• Ensure financial performance discussions are fact‑based and aligned to delivery and operational realities.

6. Leadership Cadence & Governance Forums

• Facilitate Monthly Operational Reviews (MORs) with the D&T LT member, ensuring effective discussion of performance,risksand actions.

• Support andfacilitateQuarterly Business Reviews (QBRs) with the Pillar and the CDTO, ensuring high‑quality preparation, clearnarrativesand outcomes‑focused discussion.

• Design andmaintaineffective leadership rhythms that keep the Pillar aligned, informed andoperatingat pace.

7. Cross‑Functional Coordination & Enablement

• Act as the central coordination point between the Pillar and key partners across D&T, Finance, Operations, Strategy, Risk and Compliance.

• Support workforce planning, vendor coordination and resource alignment whererequired.

• Ensure operational processes are aligned and implemented in line with Strategic Portfolio Management Office /CoEguidance.

8. Executive Communications & Ad‑hoc Support

• Prepare high‑quality executive communications, updates and briefing materials on behalf of the Pillar.

• Handle ad‑hoc strategic and operational requests for the D&T LT member with speed,judgementand clarity.

• Reduce operational friction, enabling leadership to focus on strategic priorities.

Your profile

Required:

• Experience in portfolio management, strategic planning, performancemanagementor business operations within complex or matrixed organisations.

• Analytical and problem‑solving capability, with the ability to bring clarity to ambiguity.

• Experience supporting leadership governance forums and executive‑level reporting.

• Proven ability to coordinate cross‑functional priorities andmaintainalignment across teams.

Preferred:

• Influencing skills and confidence partnering with senior leaders.

• Ability tooperatewith discretion,presenceand sound judgement in executive contexts.

• Skilled at navigating complexity and driving action through structured thinking.

• Collaborative mindset witha track recordof building trust and accountability.

Why Haleon?

None of us should ever feel like we’re standing still. At Haleon, we want you to feel supported, valued, and always progressing. Improving everyday health takes dedication, energy, and effort — so we reward your contribution with a benefits package that includes:

• Contract of employment

• Annual bonus that reflects performance

• < our philosophy to hybrid work

• Company car or car allowance according to car policy

• LTI Long Term Incentive

• Private medical package (Medicover) with additional preventive healthcare services for employees and their eligible

• Multisport card or points on the Multicafeteria Benefits account

• Health and wellbeing programmes that take care of you physically and mentally

• Pension plan membership and savings programme (PPE)

• Personalized learning paths and access to diverse development tools to support your professional growth.

• Generali Life insurance

• Supportive community and integration events

• Family benefits (extra parental leave, caregiver’s policy)

• Free car and bike parking

• Remuneration: 23 300 to 32 040 PLN gross/month, depending on the level of experience and competence.

• The salary range for this position is indicative and provided as a guide. The final offer may vary depending on factors including relevant experience, skills, qualifications, and internal equity considerations. Further details regarding the total reward and benefits package will be shared during the recruitment process. Salary ranges may vary by location in line with local market conditions and applicable pay transparency regulations.

Job Posting End Date

2026-07-10

Equal Opportunities

Haleon are committed to mobilising our purpose in a way that represents the diverse consumers and communities who rely on our brands every day. It guides us in creating an inclusive culture, where different backgrounds and views are valued and respected – all in support of understanding and best serving the needs of our consumers and unleashing the full potential of our people. It’s important to us that Haleon is a place where all our employees feel they truly belong.

During the application process, we may ask you to share some personal information, which is entirely voluntary. This information ensures we meet certain regulatory and reporting obligations and supports the development, refinement, and execution of our inclusion and belonging programmes that are open to all Haleon employees.

The personal information you provide will be kept confidential, used only for legitimate business purposes, and will never be used in making any employment decisions, including hiring decisions.

Adjustment or Accommodations Request

If you require a reasonable adjustment or accommodation or other assistance to apply for a job at Haleon at any stage of the application process, please let your recruiter know by providing them with a description of specific adjustments you are requesting. We’ll provide all reasonable adjustments to support you throughout the recruitment process and treat all information you provide us in confidence.

Note to candidates

The Haleon recruitment team will contact you using a Haleon email account (@haleon.com). If you are not sure whether the email you received is from Haleon, please get in touch.