Regional Operational Excellence Leader
Haleon
Unknown, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Full-Time
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.
Hello. We’re Haleon.
A new world-leading consumer health company. Shaped by all who join us. Together, we’re improving everyday health for billions of people by growing and innovating our portfolio of trusted, category-leading brands through a unique combination of deep human understanding and trusted science.
As Regional Operational Excellence Director, you will lead the global deployment of the Haleon Production System (HPS) across regions and countries, ensuring strong strategic alignment with regional objectives and delivering sustainable performance improvement at scale.
This is a senior leadership role with accountability for strategy, capability building, engagement, and execution, working closely with regional leaders, site leadership teams, and operational excellence communities across Haleon.
You will act as a global change leader and coach, embedding HPS ways of working while developing organizational capability and operational maturity across our manufacturing network.
A Day in the Life (What you’ll do)
Provide strategic leadership and direction for the Haleon Production System programme and its deployment across multiple countries.
Partner with regional and site leadership teams to ensure strong engagement, people change planning, capability building, and structured deployment at all sites.
Govern deployment planning, progress tracking, gap assessments, and performance reviews, removing barriers and accelerating HPS maturity.
Role model, coach, and train leaders and teams on Haleon Production System standards and behaviours.
Lead HPS communications, benchmarking, best-practice sharing, lessons learned, and knowledge propagation across regions.
Support resourcing, capability planning, and recruitment for site-level Haleon Production System roles.
Provide structured options to resolve complex operational challenges, prioritise solutions, build alignment, and drive disciplined execution.
Your Areas of Knowledge and Expertise we need:
10+ years of leadership experience in Operational Excellence, Manufacturing, or Supply Chain Management
Strong experience applying Lean Manufacturing and Continuous Improvement principles
Proven project, programme, and people leadership capability
Preferred Qualifications
Ability to engage, influence, and inspire stakeholders at all organisational levels
Comfortable operating within a complex, global matrix environment
Demonstrated experience leading large-scale change initiatives
Strong commercial and operational business acumen
Experience within a cGMP pharmaceutical or regulated manufacturing environment
Strong analytical capability with the ability to balance strategic thinking and hands-on execution
High levels of accountability, flexibility, and sense of urgency
Why Haleon
At Haleon, the Win as One Framework guides how we lead and deliver impact. Leaders are expected to put consumers first, collaborate across boundaries, unlock value at pace, and grow themselves and others.
As a leader, you are a role model for ethical leadership, embedding the Code of Conduct, fostering trust and inclusion, encouraging Speak Up, and addressing compliance matters with integrity and professionalism.
Diversity, Equity and Inclusion
At Haleon we embrace our diverse workforce by creating an inclusive environment that celebrates our unique perspectives, generates curiosity to create unmatched understanding of each other, and promotes fair and equitable outcomes for everyone. We’re striving to create a climate where we celebrate our diversity in all forms by treating each other with respect, listening to different viewpoints, supporting our communities, and creating a workplace where your authentic self belongs and thrives. We believe in an agile working culture for all our roles. If flexibility is important to you, we encourage you to explore with our hiring team what the opportunities are.
Job Posting End Date
2026-07-15Haleon 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.
During the application process, we may ask you to share some personal information, which is entirely voluntary. This information ensures we meet certain regulatory and reporting obligations and supports the development, refinement, and execution of our inclusion and belonging programmes that are open to all Haleon employees.
The personal information you provide will be kept confidential, used only for legitimate business purposes, and will never be used in making any employment decisions, including hiring decisions.
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The Haleon recruitment team will contact you using a Haleon email account (@haleon.com). If you are not sure whether the email you received is from Haleon, please get in touch.