Operational Excellence & Compliance Planner (mfd) limited to one year

Welcome to Haleon. Were a purpose-driven world-class consumer company putting everyday health in the hands of just three years since our launch weve 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 its 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.

This is a fixed term role starting 1st of August 2026

As an Operational Excellence & Compliance Planner you will drive and deliver cross-functional initiatives within the QSC organization supporting transformation and continuous improvement. You act as a key orchestrator ensuring alignment with business objectives effective stakeholder engagement and the achievement of project goals within scope time and budget.

This role will provide YOU the opportunity to lead key activities to progress YOUR career. These responsibilities include some of the following:

• Lead and manage end-to-end operational excellence initiatives across the DACH QSC organization from initiation through closure ensuring delivery of agreed outcomes.
• Support QSC teams in ensuring clarity and alignment of group priorities and activities to Haleons strategic goals and objectives across markets brands platforms and sites.
• Collaborate closely with the Programs & Performance Lead and other team members to support horizontal topics and future-oriented initiatives.
• Work closely with global regional and local stakeholders to ensure that initiatives are endorsed for implementation and sites resources allocated.
• Develop detailed project plans define scope objectives deliverables and success criteria in alignment with organizational strategy.
• Coordinate cross-functional teams ensuring clear roles responsibilities and effective communication. Identify engage and manage stakeholders.
• Effectively report track and facilitate progress of the key initiatives and proactively manage risks and issues across groups as well as help standardise the process as required.
• Drive adoption of best practices in project management including Agile or Waterfall methodologies as appropriate.
• Facilitate workshops meetings and decision-making sessions to ensure alignment and momentum.
• Drive continuous improvement initiatives in all the processes in scope of the BU Supply Chain (IMS Demand Planning O2C Master Data etc).

• Masters degree in Business Engineering Supply Chain or related field.
• 3 years of experience in project management and/or continuous improvement and operations excellence preferably in supply chain quality or transformation environments.
• Proven track record of full scope and on time project delivery for complex international cross-functional projects.
• Strong organizational analytical and problem-solving skills and proven experience in commercial/data analysis
• Excellent stakeholder management and communication abilities; able to influence and align cross-functional teams.
• Experience with project management tools (e.g. MS Project JIRA Smartsheet).
• Experience in working across cultural and multi-functional specificities in complex situations.
• Demonstrated ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously and deliver results in a matrix environment.
• Fluent in English; German or other market languages are a plus.
• Certification in project management (e.g. PMP Prince2 Agile) is a plus.

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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. Its 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.

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