Europe Medical and Scientific Affairs Lead

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 Medical Affairs Lead – Europe OU is the senior regional medical leader accountable for Medical & Scientific Affairs strategy, governance, and execution across Haleon’s Wellness, OTC and Oral Health portfolio in Europe. This role positions Medical Affairs as a strategic growth enabler, embedding Trusted Science early into portfolio, innovation, and lifecycle decisions. The role leads a multi‑disciplinary Medical Affairs organisation and provides senior scientific leadership across category, evidence, governance, and market execution.

Role Responsibilities

• Define and lead the Europe OU Medical & Scientific Affairs strategy for Wellness, OTC and Oral health categories, aligned to Haleon growth priorities and the global M&SA vision.
• Provide senior medical and scientific leadership across portfolio and innovation decision‑making, ensuring Trusted Science is embedded early and consistently.
• Own medical governance and scientific quality across Europe, ensuring compliant, scalable and efficient medical execution in line with Haleon SOPs and values.
• Lead and develop a high‑performing Medical Affairs organisation across evidence, category and market medical roles.
• Sponsor evidence strategy, claims substantiation and scientific excellence, ensuring robust alignment between evidence generation, publications, medical education and external scientific engagement.
• Provide medical leadership across the full product lifecycle, including launch excellence, claim evolution, reformulation, line extensions and portfolio optimisation, ensuring medical input drives sustainable in‑market growth as well as innovation.
• Act as the senior regional medical representative, partnering closely with R&D, Regulatory, Safety, Legal, Commercial and Category leaders to enable confident, risk‑aware decisions.
• Own the Europe OU external scientific engagement and medical education framework, including advisory boards, expert scientific exchange, and non‑promotional education, ensuring activities are insight‑driven, compliant and strengthen Haleon’s Trusted Science reputation.
• Represent Haleon externally as a credible scientific leader across Wellness and OTC, strengthening Haleon’s reputation for Trusted Science with experts, regulators, and scientific partners.
• Own regional Medical Affairs resource planning and prioritisation, including budget stewardship and deployment of medical capability across Europe to maximise impact and efficiency.

This role reports directly to the Head of R&D Europe OU and is a member of the EU OU RDLT, accountable for M&SA activities on regional level.

What You’ll Bring

We are looking for a senior Medical Affairs leader with strong scientific credibility, enterprise mindset and demonstrated ability to lead at scale. You are comfortable operating in a complex matrix, influence decisively at senior levels, and build teams that deliver scientific excellence with speed and clarity for consumers and customers.

Basic Qualifications

• Extensive experience in Medical Affairs / Medical & Scientific Affairs leadership within consumer health, OTC, wellness, VMS or pharmaceutical environments.
• Proven track record of setting and executing regional medical strategy across multiple categories and markets.
• Deep expertise in medical governance, evidence strategy, claims substantiation and scientific engagement within highly regulated environments (EU/UK or equivalent).
• Demonstrated ability to lead and develop multi‑disciplinary teams, including senior scientific leaders, in a matrix operating model.
• Strong business acumen, with experience translating science into portfolio, brand and innovation impact.

Preferred Qualifications

• Advanced scientific or clinical degree (e.g. PhD, MD, PharmD) or equivalent depth of scientific experience.

Please save a copy of the Job Description, as this will not be available post closure of the advert. When applying for this role, please use the ‘cover letter’ of the online application or your CV to describe how you meet the competencies for this role, as outlined in the job requirements above. The information that you have provided in your cover letter and CV will be used to assess your application.

Why Haleon

Our Win as One Framework is a simple, stretching definition of our future direction. It includes our purpose, ambitions, strategic drivers, and behaviours that will enable us to Win as One. This framework guides our decision-making, strategy, and culture. The successful candidate will demonstrate the following capabilities:

• Consumer first, always: Engage key business counterparts and operational stakeholders to deliver operational execution of Haleon strategies related to eCommerce activities, always putting the consumer first.
• Collaborate for impact: Establish and maintain relationships with critical groups to ensure customer knowledge is utilized to inform and deliver on the eCommerce roadmap, collaborating for impact.
• Unlock value, at pace: Drive business process improvement throughout the commercial and operational support teams, unlocking value at pace.
• Grow myself and others: Continuously look for opportunities to learn, build skills, and share learning, growing myself and others.

Job Posting End Date 2026-06-04

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.

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Note to candidates

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