Digital Factory Lead

Overview

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.

We are seeking a Digital Factory Lead to drive our digital transformation and shape the next chapter of our company’s growth.

We are accelerating our journey towards a fully connected, data-driven, and future-ready manufacturing operation. The Digital Factory Lead is a pivotal architect of this transformation, shaping and deploying Haleon’s Factory of the Future vision across our global sites. This role partners closely with Quality and Supply Chain (QSC), Technology, Data, Manufacturing Sites, and the Global Operational Excellence team to build the digital foundations that enable world-class performance, operational excellence, and empowered teams.

This senior leadership role goes beyond delivering individual digital projects. It orchestrates an integrated portfolio of digital work streams that are hard-wired to Haleon’s manufacturing excellence strategy and our definition of “what great looks like.” The Digital Factory Lead ensures that every digital solution—whether foundational infrastructure or advanced use case—contributes directly to productivity, resilience, and long-term capability building across the network.

• Shape and lead Haleon’s Factory of the Future strategy, ensuring digital foundations, platforms, and capabilities are aligned to the manufacturing excellence vision and drive measurable business outcomes.
• Partner closely with manufacturing sites to understand operational needs, co-create digital use cases, and ensure solutions are practical, scalable, and embedded into daily operations. Be the digital translator of manufacturing losses that are embedded in our HABS progression tool box.
• Collaborate with the Global Operational Excellence team to align digital work streams with HAPS, capability building, and Haleon’s broader manufacturing excellence roadmap.
• Lead the team to define and implementation team to deploy core digital systems (e.g., MES/PAS-X, connected worker platforms, OEE solutions) as part of an integrated digital architecture, ensuring scalability, compliance, and value realization across multiple sites.
• Translate site needs into a unified digital roadmap, ensuring use cases are prioritized, standardized, and embedded into a cohesive network-wide digital operating model.
• Act as a strategic influencer across business, technology, engineering, and quality, championing IT/OT convergence, data governance, and platform-based thinking.
• Provide governance and oversight for digital foundations and use-case portfolios, ensuring resources, timelines, and investments support the broader Factory of the Future vision.
• Benchmark externally (e.g., Gartner, McKinsey) to integrate leading practices and ensure Haleon remains at the forefront of digital manufacturing.

These responsibilities require a strategic, collaborative leader with a deep understanding of digital transformation, manufacturing systems, and the ability to drive results in a complex, fast-paced environment.

• Visionary Digital Leadership:
  Shapes a bold Factory of the Future vision and connects it to site-level execution and manufacturing excellence.
• Influence Without Authority:
  Builds alignment across diverse technical and business teams; drives decisions in complex, matrixed environments.
• Operational…