Wider Asia QSC Innovation Lead

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.

We are hiring a Quality & Supply Chain (QSC) Innovation Lead in Singapore. As the Wider Asia QSC Innovation Lead you will head the innovation team and oversee the end-to-end supply chain to ensure agile timely delivery of all innovations across Wider Asia. This role partners closely with Commercial and R&D teams and leads Technical Manufacturing (internal and external) and Supply Chain hubs to drive innovation.

Responsibilities:

• Supply Chain core leadership team member with accountability for E2E Supply Chain to deliver product launches on time in budget and with excellent service
• Provide strategic partnership to our Commercial and R&D teams to accelerate growth and improve speed to market
• Lead QSC Innovation meetings and ensure alignment throughout Wider Asia Innovation projects
• Orchestrate multi-functionally an integrated Innovation master plan that combines technical operational and commercial opportunities towards sales and margin improvement
• Build capability/coach the QSC Innovation team to deliver the masterplan with excellence
• Lead stage gate management and perform rigorous post launch evaluation to feedback learning into future initiatives
• Develop supply chain plans for new product launches covering sourcing manufacturing strategy cost investment risk management and scalable processes to deliver excellent supply service cost and agility during and after launch.
• Ensure plans are aligned to Supply efforts to simplify operations Network footprint and portfolio while delighting consumers and customers.
• Capture operational quality technical and business needs for acceptance cost and risk to support stage gate decisions.
• Assist with the due diligence process for new products at own Haleon manufacturing sites or licensed from CMOs as well as for new contract manufacturers that will supply the innovation or product.
• Build effective working relationship and influence with internal and external partners
• Champion QbD (Quality by Design) and Design-To-Target-Cost (DTTC) in the development of robust and cost-effective formulations tech transfer of new products from R&D to internal sites/CMOs process documentation and testing methodologies that meet standards of quality and process capability
• Ensure QSC Innovation team transfer product knowledge share potential improvements that may be needed to Product Owners post launch
• Facilitate and chairs Wider Asia Technical Review Board

Requirements:

• BSc in Science Engineering or Equivalent relevant Supply Chain management experience
• At least 15 years relevant experience in Pharmaceutical / Consumer Healthcare Manufacturing Operations and Technical Support
• Ability to navigate matrix environment and manage multiple stakeholders across multiple geographies/ functions and levels
• Exceptional leadership communication and influencing skills
• Experience in people/team management
• Experience working with Manufacturing sites Contract Manufacturers R&D teams Financial and commercial acumen
• Expertise in complex problem solving and ability to lead and manage issues
• Excellent at handling change management and can drive decisions/actions with sense of urgency
• Experience working in a cGMP environment in process scale up/optimization validation and ability to apply knowledge appropriately to enable speed and agility in innovation

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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. Its important to us that Haleon is a place where all our employees feel they truly belong.

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