Senior Digital & Tech Business Partner

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  

Provide overall leadership and accountability for IT across one complex site or multiple sites. Act as the primary IT partner to site leadership, ensuring alignment between business priorities and IT strategy, effective service delivery, and sustained compliance in a regulated manufacturing environment. 

Responsibilities 

• End-to-end accountability: own end-to-end IT delivery and operations for assigned site(s), including quality, risk, compliance, business continuity (resilience, incident response and crisis management), cost control, and performance. 
• Business partnership: act as IT Business Partner to the Site Director and Site Leadership Team, representing IT in site governance and tiered accountability forums. 
• Digital strategy and roadmap: define, maintain, and deliver a site IT roadmap aligned with site priorities, QSCP strategy, enterprise standards, and cybersecurity requirements. 
• Business value: translate site requirements into clear demand for central IT, influencing prioritisation, investment decisions, and delivery plans. 
• Leveraging shared services: partner with IT Shared Services and external providers to ensure services (local and global) meet site needs, agreed SLAs, cybersecurity controls, business continuity/disaster recovery requirements, and regulatory expectations. 
• Team leadership: line-manage the site IT team, building capability through coaching, performance management, and targeted development. 
• Costs and investments: manage site IT operating and capital expenditure in line with approved budgets and governance models. 
• Seamless local/central integration: drive adoption of strategic global platforms and target architecture, while governing the boundary between local infrastructure/local components and global solutions to reduce complexity and ensure secure, compliant integration. 
• Inspection readiness: ensure IT inspection readiness and represent the site during audits and inspections. 
• Compliance: lead by example in EHS, quality and other compliance, ensuring incidents, deviations, and CAPAs are managed appropriately. 

Your profile

Education

• Associate’s degree in computer science or related discipline. 

Experience

• Proven people management experience;
• Minimum five years in IT/digital;
• Experience in regulated manufacturing and OT;
• Strong stakeholder engagement;
• Solid analytical and project management skills. 

Skills

• Understanding of enterprise IT systems (e.g. SAP);
• Strong business acumen, cGMP and regulatory knowledge;
• Ability to operate in matrix environments;
• Fluent in Italian and English;
• Proficiency in Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. 

 

 

 

 Job Posting End Date

 

 

2026-06-05

 

 

 

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.