HR Director - Business Services

Job Description

Hello. We’re Haleon. A new world-leading consumer health company. Shaped by all who join us. Together, we’re improving everyday health for billions of people. By growing and innovating our global portfolio of category-leading brands – including Sensodyne,Panadol, Advil, Voltaren, Theraflu, Otrivin, and Centrum – through a unique combination of deep human understanding and trusted science. What’s more, we’re achieving it in a company that we’re in control of. In an environment that we’re co-creating. And aculture that’s uniquely ours. Care to join us. It isn’t a question.With category leading brands such as Sensodyne, Voltaren and Centrum, built on trusted science and human understanding, and combined with our passion, knowledge and expertise, we’re uniquely placed to do this and to grow a strong, successful business.This is an exciting time to join us and help shape the future. It’s an opportunity to be part of something special.About the roleHaleon is focusing on introducing streamlined and simplified processes and ways of working, increased automation and placing work in regional and global hubs to build resiliency, capacity, and capability in the organization to focus on delivering EverydayHealth with Humanity.We are on a multi-year journey to move into functional shared services and are laying the foundations for a potential future business services model. The shared services are housed in our Global Capability Centre in India and threeRegional hubs to provide support across languages and time zones.The role is accountable for the HR partnership to the GBS/Hubs leader on this journey to shape strategy, bringing people, organization and culture expertise to the short- & long-term plans. This will include ensuring that we leverage consolidated capabilities,create a compelling place to work that is attractive and develops talent and that the organization delivers on the financial and effectiveness goals. They will take direct accountability for HR leadership and will work across the business and functional matrixto shape and execute plans to bring multiple functions into a functional shared services model. They are responsible for integrating the people and organization plans each function has developed, working with the leader to identify early synergies, and ensuringa coherent transition plan across functions as the changes from different functions impact BUs.In tandem the role will play the lead HR partnership role in shaping and moving towards the definition of the end state business services including assessing the location strategy – leveraging expertise from within and externally. They will play a key role,alongside finance and functional leaders, in building the strategy, business case for change and roadmap to establish the model.They will play a direct partnership role into the already established Global Finance Services organization.Key responsibilities

• Partners with the business leadership to build the strategy and roadmap towards a future business services model that meets the needs of the business, driving cost synergies and enhancing the employee experience. Leading the external benchmarking and outsidein insights to ensure Haleon’s hubs remain attractive places to join and stay.
• Provides HR leadership and execution required for the transition of resources from multiple functions, ensuring that the locations are set up to receive and stand up services in line with the roadmap and that change is well managed.
• Leads the hubs and in partnership with functional leaders to embed Haleon’s culture and purpose, embedding performance management capability and industry leading Health and Wellbeing, resulting in a high performing, engaging and inclusive environment wherea diverse employee population can thrive and can realize their potential.
• Drive talent management, building an high performing diverse organization and securing a strong diverse leadership pipeline. Provide coaching and advice to leaders to continually improve leadership and management capability and performance.
• Build workforce plans that secure the capability required for both the short & long term, putting in place both build and buy strategies. Working with CoEs to provide the resources and support for employees to grow and with talent acquisition externallyto bring in high caliber talent.
• Manage the organization effectiveness principles to ensure we have teams, with clear accountability and empowerment in roles for outcomes
• Lead the HR team in the hubs, with direct accountability for HRBPs in the hubs and in bringing together the cross-HR team that delivers

Role scope summary:

• Matrix leadership – across Functional and Business Unit HRBPs, CoEs and People Services
• Direct leadership – HRBP team in hubs

Potential Locations: GCC – Bengaluru; Regional hubs – Poland, Costa Rica, Kuala Lumpur.Qualifications and skillsEssential

Proven experience of leading functional transformation into a global business services model with equivalence to a £10-20Bn organization with a global footprint across multiple countries and c. 25,000 employees

Builds the people, organization and culture strategy and roadmap for change that will deliver future success, building the foundations today that will enable future effectiveness and efficiency, bringing in relevant external best practices to acceleratechange

Strong and broad HR experience in establishing new locations – ranging through change management, talent acquisition and retention, employer branding and reward.

Is bold in moving things forward – expert at diagnosis of business needs and pulling that into people and organization plans that. Demonstrating clear results in engagement, simplification, effectiveness and cost.

Breaks down barriers, successfully working across boundaries, to integrate multiple agendas and drive results in a matrix organization

Demonstrate influential and adaptable style of leadership and maintain integrity when dealing with complex and significantly difficult situations arising from risk, issue and change management.

Strong leadership skills with experience of partnering multiple hubs and international teams, creating a positive and inclusive environment where diversity is valued and people have feel a sense of belonging

Change leadership experience, inspiring others around the future, managing the change to build engagement, commitment and celebrating successesEducated to degree level in Human Resources Management, Business Administration or related combination of educatio