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.
About the role
The Head of Operating Unit (OU) Data plays a pivotal role in activating Haleon’s Data and AI strategy locally and ensuring that Data & AI services drive measurable business outcomes across Operating Units, as the Data Lead for the OU Data team and business-facing data leader for Europe and Middle East Africa (MEA). The role is accountable for driving business value from data, analytics and intelligence in Europe/MEA, while shaping and operating a consistent, high-performing OU data engagement capability globally across all OUs.
Operating as the primary interface between the Data Office and OUs, the role plays a pivotal part in driving delivery of Haleon’s Data & AI services globally, ensuring strong business partnership, clear demand-to-value ownership, and disciplined application of enterprise-wide ways of working across intelligence, analytics, and data governance in OUs.
The role is part of the Data Office team and reports through the Chief Data & Analytics Officer.
The job holder will be based in the United Kingdom, to ensure proximity to key Operating Unit stakeholders in Europe/MEA.
Key responsibilities
Regional Data & AI Leadership (Europe/MEA)
Act as the single point of accountability for data & AI within Europe/MEA, partnering closely with OU business leaders to identify, shape and prioritise use cases, business questions and opportunities.
Translate complex business needs into clear data & AI requirements, ensuring alignment to enterprise standards and services.
Lead and coordinate OU‑aligned data roles in Europe/MEA, ensuring consistent application of data & AI services in the OU.
Work seamlessly with global Data Office roles (e.g. Data Engineering, Data Science, AI, Enterprise Data Management) to deliver quality outcomes at pace.
Drive consistent governance, prioritisation and delivery discipline, including strong project level governance.
Leadership of the OU Data Team:
Lead, coach and develop the OU Data team across all Operating Units, setting clear expectations, standards and ways of working.
Build a strong, consistent business-facing data leadership capability, ensuring clarity of role, accountability and impact across OUs.
Ensure best practice is shared across regions, fostering a strong community culture and continuous improvement mindset.
Act as the escalation point of complex, cross-OU data demand and delivery.
Demand-to-Value Ownership & Governance:
Oversee and own the end‑to‑end data lifecycle from demand to delivered intelligence in the OU, ensuring outputs are actionable, adopted and drive value.
Support definition of success measures, benefits hypotheses and value tracking for OU data and AI initiatives, balancing regional needs with enterprise standards to ensure consistency.
Ensure robust governance, benefits definition and delivery of data initiatives across OUs.
Act as a sounding board for data & AI demand, validating assumptions and ensuring enterprise relevance.
Strategy, Innovation & Continuous Improvement:
Drive awareness of Haleon’s enterprise-wide Data & AI strategy in the OU, ensuring consistent application of Data & AI services and standards.
Shape how OU engagement and delivery of data services are embedded as standard practice across Haleon, based on OU insights, learnings and needs.
Provide strategic input on emerging data, analytics and AI opportunities relevant to the OU.
Serve as a trusted advisor to senior stakeholders on how data & AI can drive growth, efficiency, and better decision-making.
Support leadership communications and change activities to embed new ways of working across D&T and OUs.
Qualifications and skills
Essential
Significant senior leadership experience in data, analytics, intelligence and/or digital roles, with strong exposure to business facing data delivery.
Proven experience leading business-facing data, analytics and/or AI functions, ideally across multiple markets or regions.
Strong track record of driving measurable business value from data-enabled initiatives.
Excellent stakeholder management skills, with the ability to influence and challenge senior commercial and functional leaders.
Deep understanding of data, analytics and intelligence capabilities (e.g. BI, advanced analytics, AI‑enabled intelligence, data governance).
Highly structured and outcome-focused, with experience in governance, benefits tracking and delivery management.
Confident people leader, experienced in coaching senior roles and building high-performing leadership communities.
Preferred
Background in consumer products or consumer healthcare industry.
Familiarity with enterprise data governance, stewardship and information architecture concepts.
Experience working with global or multi‑market teams across time zones, with specific experience of Europe/MEA markets.
Strong change leadership skills, with the ability to lead through ambiguity and transformation.
Job Posting End Date
2026-05-22
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.
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