People Experience & Change Specialist (Associate Project Manager)

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.

Hello. We’re Haleon. A new world-leading consumer health company. 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. Brands that are known and trusted to deliver. What’s more, whilst our brands have history, our company is new, fresh and forming, shaped by all who join us. We are at the forefront of building a new sector of consumer health and for Haleon, co-creating our unique culture. Care to join us. It isn’t a question.

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 team

People Solutions Excellence exists to drive executional excellence in HR operations, services and transactions. We help improve how People Solutions operates by making processes simpler, services better, decisions more data-driven, and change more successful.

We're a global team of experts in process improvement, people experience, service excellence, data and analytics, reporting, and project delivery. Working closely with our HR Centres of Excellence and People Solutions teams, we solve problems, streamline ways of working, and drive continuous improvement.

Our role is to create consistent, scalable solutions that work globally while allowing for local needs where required. We bridge the gap between business requirements and operational delivery; helping People Solutions deliver better experiences, stronger outcomes, and lasting adoption of change.

The HR PMO is a critical capability within this team. It provides the governance, structure and delivery discipline that turns strategic ambition into measurable outcomes. By ensuring initiatives are prioritised, coordinated and executed effectively, the PMO enables sustainable transformation and continuous improvement across the entire employee journey.

About the role

As a People Experience & Change Specialist (Associate Project Manager), you will help turn CI initiatives and transformation ambitions into outcomes that deliver better employee experiences through change and transformation.

Reporting to the Programme Manager - Transformation, you will support the delivery of strategic People Solutions initiatives by providing project management discipline, stakeholder engagement, governance support and change execution.

You will coordinate projects from planning through implementation, ensuring milestones are achieved, risks are managed, stakeholders remain engaged and employees are prepared to adopt new ways of working. Success will be measured through high-quality delivery, strong stakeholder experiences, and the sustainable adoption of change that improves employee, manager and HR experiences globally.

Key responsibilities:

• Support the delivery of People Solutions transformation initiatives, ensuring solutions are delivered on time and in budget, meet business objectives and improve employee, manager and HR experiences.
• Translate project objectives into clear delivery plans, milestones and outcomes, ensuring customer experience and adoption considerations are embedded from the outset.
• Maintain project plans, RAID logs, action trackers and governance documentation to provide clear visibility of progress, risks and dependencies.
• Coordinate project activities across People Solutions, Digital & Technology, Global Process Owners, HR CoEs and regional HR teams, to ensure effective execution of solutions that are simple, scalable and user-centred.
• Produce status reports, dashboards and governance materials that support informed decision-making and leadership oversight.
• Track risks, issues and dependencies proactively, escalating where required and helping teams identify practical solutions.
• Support stakeholder engagement activities by building trusted relationships and ensuring stakeholders remain informed, aligned and engaged throughout delivery.
• Develop and execute communication, training and adoption plans that help employees and managers successfully transition to new processes, tools and ways of working.
• Assess change impacts and support change readiness activities to help minimise disruption and accelerate adoption.
• Gather feedback, insights and performance measures to evaluate the effectiveness of change and identify opportunities for continuous improvement.
• Champion consistent project management and change management practices across the People Solutions portfolio.
• Support the continuous improvement of PMO templates, tools, governance and ways of working.
• Contribute to building project and change management capability across People Solutions teams through coaching, guidance and sharing best practices.

About you

Technical and functional expertise:

• 5-8 years’ experience supporting and delivering projects, transformation initiatives or change programmes in HR, shared services or a business operations environment.
• Strong understanding of project management fundamentals, including planning, governance, risk management, reporting and stakeholder management. Formal certification in (or working towards) project management methodologies (e.g. PMP, APM, PRINCE2, Agile) is advantageous.
• Experience developing project documentation, status reporting, governance packs and delivery plans.
• Understanding of change management principles, stakeholder engagement, communications and adoption activities.
• Strong analytical capability with the ability to interpret data, identify trends and generate actionable insights.
• Experience working across multiple stakeholders in a matrix environment.
• Familiarity with project management and collaboration tools.
• Experience working with HR technologies, Workday, ServiceNow or digital transformation initiatives is advantageous.

Leadership and behavioural capabilities:

• Highly organised with excellent attention to detail and follow-through.
• Excellent stakeholder management and relationship-building skills.
• Strong communication and influencing capabilities across global, virtual and cross-functional environments.
• Ability to influence without direct authority and align multiple stakeholders around shared outcomes.
• Curious, proactive and solutions-focused, with a continuous improvement mindset.
• Resilient and adaptable, able to navigate ambiguity and changing business needs.
• Demonstrates accountability and ownership for delivering results.
• Passionate about improving employee experience and delivering meaningful business outcomes
• Strong commercial thinking, analytical capability and problem-solving skills.
• Demonstrable capability to lead change, drive adoption and deliver sustainable business outcomes, preferably in complex environments.

Why Join Us?  

The future of everyday health is changing. And we’re the people changing it. In front of us is an incredible opportunity to go beyond what any of us have done before. And make everyday health more achievable, more inclusive and more sustainable. For more and more people.

So, join us, as we build one of the world’s leading consumer healthcare companies. Join us to innovate and grow our category-leading brands. To better understand people’s everyday health needs. To tackle the biggest barriers that stand in their way. To change individual and societal behaviour. Join us to work with colleagues who share your curiosity and restless energy. To explore your interests. To stretch yourself to do the best work of your career. And join us, as together we build a working experience that encourages us all to lead happier, healthier, more productive lives. The way we see it, every day is an opportunity for better. And we’re going all in to realise it.

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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.

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Note to candidates

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