PMO Lead
Job Summary
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.
About the role
The Enterprise Transformation PMO Lead is accountable forestablishingand operating the PMO for the programme providing integrated planning firstline assurance across the delivery lifecycle and clear pragmatic project management standards frameworks and policies. The role enables senior leader decision-making bymaintaininga transparent view of programme health risksdependenciesand readiness while enforcing consistent delivery standards across workstreams and partners. This role also uplifts delivery maturity and quality ensuring the programme progresses through defined phase gates with confidence.
Key Responsibilities
Project Management:
Establish and enforce consistent delivery standards reporting expectations and ways of working across the programme balancing rigour with pragmatism.
Coordinate readiness checkpoints across domains (e.g. Business Technology Data Security & Controls); tracking closure of critical actions and conditions toproceed.
Define & use delivery metrics toidentifypatterns bottlenecks and systemic issues.
Drive consistent ways of working reporting standards and delivery expectations.
Coach workstreams where delivery maturity is uneven.
ProjectDelivery Execution:
Own thecomprehensive integrated project plan(L0 L3)identifying and escalating plan conflicts resourcecontentionsand sequencing risks.
Ensures programme planning reflects SAP S/4 HANA delivery realities including design to build traceability test cycles mock conversions and deployment waves.
Partner with Deployment Lead to coordinate integrated cutover planning ensuring cutover plans are tested resourced and decision-based; tracking risks rehearsals & go / no go criteria.
Programme RAIDD Change Control & Assurance
Accountable for programme-level RAID and change control ensuring risks and issues are proactivelyidentified clearly owned and managed to closure.
Act as first-line assurance for delivery quality challenging optimism bias and ensuring transparency on delivery risk.
Drive quality assurance across deliverables including definition of programme phase entry/exit criteria and supporting compliance withadditionalassurance requirements.
Ensure change impacts are understood end-to-end across scope timeline cost readiness and value.
Provide assurance that deployment plans reflect operational constraints and business continuity requirements not just technical readiness.
Stakeholder Engagement:
Act as atrusted partner to senior leaders by providing a single credible view of programme health risks and delivery confidence.
Influence senior leaders and workstream leads tomaintaindelivery discipline addressing underperformance through data-led insight and constructive challenge.
Capture and apply lessons learned across phases waves and deployments to strengthen future delivery.
Programme Onboarding& Continuous Improvement:
Uses programme performance data and leading indicators toanticipateissues and drive corrective action.
Drive maturity uplift of PMO capabilities coaching teams strengthening use of frameworks and ensuring quality assurance becomes embedded in day-to-day delivery.
Activelyparticipatein the Transformation Offices Delivery Excellence pillar activities to support enterprise maturity of PPPM practices.
Embed a culture of continuous improvement across the programme using data-driven insights to drive enhancements to programme delivery practices.
Accountable for all the administration and onboarding-related activities for the programme.
Qualifications and skills
Proven experience leading a PMO within a large-scale multi-year enterprise transformationin a multi-national / matrix organisation.
Proven experience leading a PMO on an S4 HANA enabled transformation isdesirable.
Demonstratedtrack recorddefining embedding and evolving PMO standards and controls to enable effective decision-making and delivery confidence; able to balance rigour with delivery pragmatism ensuring control mechanisms enable momentum.
Advanced skill in integrated planning and dependency orchestration; including the ability toidentifysystemic risks sequencing conflicts and readiness gaps across the delivery lifecycle.
Skilled infacilitatingcross-functionalplanning conversations to drive alignment across workstreams.
Established experience acting as first-line assurance for programme delivery providing senior leaders with transparent evidence-based insight on risks issuesdependenciesand delivery confidence.
Experienceoperatingin matrixed multi-vendor environments influencing delivery outcomes without direct authority andmaintainingneutrality across competing priorities.
Strong judgment in assessing and communicating the end-to-end impact of change including implications.
Exceptional Communication & Stakeholder Engagement able to communicate complex programme information clearly and credibly with senior executives and cross-functional teams; adept at escalation management.
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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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About Company
About us We are a science-led global healthcare company with a special purpose: to help people do more, feel better, live longer. We have 3 global businesses that research, develop and manufacture innovative pharmaceutical medicines, vaccines and consumer healthcare products.