Head of Anti-Counterfeit

Location: Greater London

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.
** About the Role
** The Head of Anti-Counterfeiting (ACF) serves as a senior strategic leader tasked with formulating and executing Haleon's global anti-counterfeiting strategy. This position is pivotal in safeguarding consumer safety, protecting brand reputation, and preserving business value through the leadership of intelligence-driven, risk-based, and cross-functional initiatives aimed at preventing, detecting, and disrupting counterfeit activities in high-risk markets.

A central responsibility of this role is to coordinate a multidisciplinary approach to anti-counterfeiting by collaborating closely with teams from QSC, Communications, Legal, Commercial, and other key stakeholders. The Head of ACF ensures coherent alignment across diverse functions and regions, facilitating an integrated and effective response to threats posed by counterfeiting.

Leading a specialised team of subject matter experts (SMEs), the Head of ACF works in partnership with the Global Security Operations team to optimize market-level capabilities and enhance engagement with external enforcement agencies, regulatory authorities, and industry coalitions.

As an integral member of the Group Security leadership team, the Head of ACF oversees enterprise-wide ACF investigations, enforcement collaborations, and strategic stakeholder engagement. The role manages a globally dispersed team and external vendors to ensure measurable results are achieved through enforcement actions, intelligence gathering, and innovative practices.
** Key Responsibilities
**** Strategic Leadership
*** Develop and implement a comprehensive global anti-counterfeiting strategy aligned with business priorities and risk mitigation objectives, incorporating an intelligence-driven model and defining KPIs to evaluate enforcement effectiveness, ROI, and consumer trust.
* Coordinate cross-functional product protection by facilitating collaboration among QSC, Communications, Legal, and Commercial teams, and develop operational partnerships with internal stakeholders across business, legal, corporate affairs, and communications.
* Develop and deploy anti-counterfeit (ACF) policies, procedures, and SOPs that ensure consistent application internally and externally, supporting both large-scale source manufacturing investigations and standardized market sweep efforts through the Regional Security Manager network.
* Represent Haleon at industry forums, regulatory organisations, and law enforcement bodies, contributing to standards development, information sharing, strategic relationship building, and regular program reporting to senior leadership and stakeholders.
* Maintain relationships with investigation service suppliers to foster innovation, responsiveness, cost management, ROI, and continuous improvement.
* Manage a team of subject matter experts located across different regions, coordinating closely with Group Security Operations to capitalize on their market proximity, thereby enhancing operational. scalability and strengthening relationships with external stakeholders.
** Operational Execution
*** Develop risk assessment and intelligence strategies to identify and monitor counterfeiting trends and oversee the delivery of tactical mitigation for key markets and products.
* Oversee global monitoring of…