Quality Summer Student

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.

Contract Duration: May 2026 – August 2026

Work Authorization: Candidates must be legally authorized to work in Canada at the time of application and throughout employment. Visa sponsorship is not available for this role.

Relocation: No relocation assistance is available. Candidates are expected to reside within commuting distance of the position location, or relocate at their own expense.

Salary Range: The base salary compensation range for this position is $21-$23/hour.

Step into a summer student role where Quality meets collaboration, curiosity, and real impact. As part of Haleon Canada’s Quality team, you’ll help bring new products to market, support discontinuations, and keep our portfolio compliant, all while working closely with marketing, regulatory, supply chain, and commercial partners. This is a hands‑on opportunity to build your Quality skill set, sharpen your communication abilities, and contribute to work that directly shapes the consumer experience.

Job Purpose:
This function is responsible for the execution of Quality operational processes and ensuring that they are executed in compliance with HALEON policies and standards, GxP and regulatory requirements.

The function is important in maintaining timely, effective and compliant management of activities that have a direct impact to product quality, regulatory compliance and product supply to the local market. The job holder is expected to support all assigned operational quality activities. This includes, but is not limited to, end to end product lifecycle management through support of innovation and product launch, change management, deviation/non-conformance investigation and root cause analysis, and post-market complaint surveillance. Using an active customer and consumer focused mindset, the job holder will seek to generate creative solutions for technical problems, engage with line management and cross-functional stakeholders, deliver on-time commitments and continuous improvements, while maintaining adherence to HALEON values and expectations.

Why Join Haleon?

• Competitive compensation;
• Inclusive, diverse, and collaborative culture;
• Hybrid model in a modern office located in Mississauga;
• Fitness centre and bistro onsite.

 

Key Responsibilities:

This role will provide YOU with the opportunity to lead key activities to progress YOUR Quality career. These responsibilities include some of the following…

• Support the product lifecycle by participating in new product launch teams, project execution teams and business maintenance projects and by building quality, compliance and speed to market considerations into the development process.
• Responsible for local market product returns, opening and investigation of deviations and change controls, as required.
• Support the complaint handling system through the timely assessment and processing of sample management for assigned Canada products.
• Support timely records retention, archival and destruction practices in accordance with the HALEON records retention schedule.
• Ensure robust documentation management practices in accordance with ALCOA principles and maintaining data integrity for created records.
• Support internal self-inspections and independent business monitoring audits, as required and implement assigned CAPA according to defined timelines.
• Provide ongoing education on Quality to relevant commercial functions, to increase understanding of requirements and to build Quality Culture.

Basic Qualifications:
We are looking for professionals with these required skills to achieve our goals:

• In progress Second Level of Education - Enrolled for Fall 2026 semester in Bachelor’s degree in related life sciences
• discipline.
• Understanding of and experience in quality assurance systems and knowledge of regulatory
• requirements pertaining to GMP.
• Knowledge on effective quality documentation systems
• Professional written and verbal communication skills.
• Able to deliver positive and proactive communications and foster excellent working relationships with
• stakeholders at any level of the organization.
• Analytical mind, good attention to detail and problem-solving skills within a structured process.
• Good team player – works well in cross-functional teams.
• Good time management skills, with ability to multi-task and work under pressure.
• Strong interpersonal and negotiation skills.
• Ability to self-motivate and be resilient and focused under pressure.
• Strong general computer literacy with Intermediate skills in Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook.

Preferred Qualifications:
If you have the following characteristics, it would be a plus:

• Experience with Veeva and SAP ERP systems would be an advantage.

AI Statement:

At Haleon, we are committed to a fair, transparent, and human-centered hiring process. 
 

We do not make automated hiring decisions or automated candidate dispositions within our Talent Acquisition systems. All decisions regarding whether to advance a candidate in the hiring process are made by human recruiters and hiring managers. 

While we utilize AI tools to assist in ranking candidate profiles based on their experience and alignment with job requisitions, these tools are used solely to support our teams in reviewing applications more efficiently. A human always reviews this data and makes the final decision on candidate progression. 

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 Job Posting End Date

 

 

2026-03-31

 

 

 

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. 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.

 

 

 

Adjustment or Accommodations Request

If you require a reasonable adjustment or accommodation or other assistance to apply for a job at Haleon at any stage of the application process, please let your recruiter know by providing them with a description of specific adjustments you are requesting. We’ll provide all reasonable adjustments to support you throughout the recruitment process and treat all information you provide us in confidence. 

 

 

 

Note to candidates

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.