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About the Role

The Enterprise Transformation Programme is a multi-year journey focused on transforming the Haleon business, building an organization wired for excellence to deliver the ‘Win as One’ strategy and drive growth through continuous improvement. The Programme Design Governance Lead plays a critical role in ensuring the Enterprise Transformation delivery enables functional ambition and unlocks value at pace.

Responsibilities

• Ensures business and technical design decisions are coherent, standard-led, enterprise safe, and decision-ready.
• Governs design interlock across the Enterprise Transformation programme Business Design Authority, Technical Design Authority, and Enterprise Design Authority.
• Works closely with Business Process Owners, Programme Leads, and Technology teams to manage interdependencies and protect end-to-end enterprise design integrity.
• Ensures design decisions are traceable, aligned to design principles, and protect long-term enterprise value.
• Creates and owns the Design Governance Approach, ensuring it is relevant to the Programme, compliant with Haleon governance expectations, and aligned to SAP S/4 principles.
• Embeds design governance into the broader Programme Governance Framework, keeping it current across programme phases.
• Reviews key design deliverables for readiness before Stage Gates, ensuring process, data, integration, and technology designs are robust and meet design guardrails.
• Ensures Enterprise Design Authority (EDA) and Programme Business Design Authority (BDA) decisions are final, traceable, and auditable, with clear lineage to enterprise objectives and S4 design principles.
• Maintains the Design Decision register, tracking approvals, conditions, and follow-up actions.
• Acts as Secretariat and Quality Keeper for the EDA and BDA, ensuring submissions are properly framed, pre-aligned, and supported by impacts, implications, and clear recommendations.
• Sets and enforces clear submission standards, templates, and pre-read expectations.
• Communicates outcomes from Design Governance and escalations requiring leadership intervention.
• Ensures escalations are design-led and evidence-based.
• Ensures ‘fit to standard’ is the default position and deviations are explicitly justified, enterprise-assessed, and approved through governance.
• Challenges proposals that create unnecessary business/technical debt or future legacy burden, escalating to the Enterprise Design Authority where enterprise impact exists.
• Reviews and assures design readiness prior to Stage Gates.
• Confirms that unresolved design risks or dependencies are explicitly surfaced to governance.
• Establishes and drives cross-programme design working groups to resolve interdependencies.
• Partners with workstreams and adjacent programmes to surface implicit dependencies, clarify definition of done, and agree delivery dates.
• Classifies interdependencies across dimensions (process, tech, data, security, op model), ensuring clarity of impact and escalation route.
• Assesses whether dependencies create local optimisation risk or enterprise-wide consequences requiring escalation beyond programme scope.
• Ensures design decisions taken in adjacent programmes are properly routed through the appropriate design authorities.
• Maintains end-to-end traceability of design dependencies.
• Builds strong relationships with senior stakeholders to support alignment, rapid decision-making, and consistency.
• Educates programme teams on design governance principles, promoting process standardisation, simplification, and adoption of the global template.
• Acts as a trusted advisor to senior leaders, enabling translation of complex design considerations into clear, decision-grade tradeoffs.

Requirements

• Deep mastery of design-authority models across programme business & technology design governance and enterprise design governance.
• Demonstrated track record of design governance leadership across complex, multi-national transformation programmes.
• Expertise in identifying and classifying design-led interdependencies.
• Skilled in identifying implicit dependencies and determining delivery vs. design dependencies.
• Expertise in understanding when interdependencies cross threshold from programme to enterprise concern.
• Strong understanding of SAP S/4 design principles including fit-to-standard, clean core, controlled exception management.
• Able to challenge both business and SI-led proposals that introduce unnecessary technical debt or legacy carry-over.
• Able to translate complex design choices into clear trade-offs and clearly frame decisions.
• Excellent relationship management; operates credibly across a variety of stakeholders including Executives, Functional Leads, Business Process Owners, Architecture, Data, Technology and PMO.
• Ability to influence through authority of judgement and evidence; builds strong collaborative relationships across stakeholders.
• Confident in enforcing escalation discipline even under delivery pressure.

Skills

• SAP S/4HANA
• Design Governance
• Stakeholder Engagement
• Relationship Management
• Influence
• Communication

Location

• Remote

Work Type

• Full-time

Experience Level

• Senior

About the Company

• Haleon is a purpose-driven, world-class consumer company putting everyday health in the hands of millions.
• Our trusted portfolio of brands includes Sensodyne®, Panadol®, Advil®, Voltaren®, Theraflu®, Otrivin®, and Centrum®.
• We combine deep human understanding with trusted science.
• Our Win as One strategy puts our purpose – to deliver better everyday health with humanity – at the heart of everything we do.
• We have an agile, performance-focused culture.

Equal Opportunity

• Haleon is committed to mobilizing our purpose in a way that represents the diverse consumers and communities who rely on our brands every day.
• We strive to create an inclusive culture where different backgrounds and views are valued and respected.
• We aim for Haleon to be a place where all employees feel they truly belong.
• Personal information shared during the application process is voluntary and used to meet regulatory obligations and support inclusion and belonging programs.
• Provided personal information will be kept confidential, used only for legitimate business purposes, and will never be used in making employment decisions.
• If you require a reasonable adjustment or accommodation to apply, please inform your recruiter.