PMO Lead
Haleon
Greater London, England, United Kingdom
Contract
Competitive
HybridManager
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 Enterprise Transformation PMO Lead is accountable for establishing and operating the PMO for the programme, providing integrated planning, first line assurance across the delivery lifecycle, and clear, pragmatic project management standards, frameworks, and policies. The role enables senior leader decision-making by maintaining a transparent view of programme health, risks, dependencies and 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 >Job Posting End Date
2026-06-17Haleon 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. It’s important to us that Haleon is a place where all our employees feel they truly belong.
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