Product Manager: Formulation and Packaging

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 Product Manager: Formulation and Packaging is accountable for defining and delivering the product strategy and roadmap for Haleon’s core formulation and packaging, ingredient, and substance management capabilities across R&D. This role ensures the availability of authoritative, high‑quality formulation, packaging and substance data that supports innovation, product development, regulatory submissions, safety assessments, manufacturing readiness, and lifecycle management. You will act as the single accountable product leader for systems managing formulation and packaging compositions, ingredients, and substances—partnering with Formulation and Packaging Science, Safety, Regulatory, Quality, Manufacturing, and Digital & Tech to enable compliant, efficient, and scalable R&D execution.

Role Responsibilities

• Product Strategy & Scientific Enablement: Own the product vision, strategy, and roadmap for formulation, packaging, ingredient, and substance management platforms. Enable end‑to‑end support for formulation, packaging and development, from early innovation through registration, commercialization, and lifecycle change. Maintain deep understanding of formulation and packaging science, ingredient and substance data models, and how they are used across R&D, Safety, Regulatory, and Supply. Track emerging industry trends and best practices in ingredient master data, formulation and packaging systems, and scientific data management, shaping forward‑looking product strategy.
• Ingredient & Substance Data Governance: Establish systems that act as the single source of truth for: Ingredients, substances, and materials, Composition and formulation and packaging structures, and Specifications, attributes, and scientific metadata. Enable strong data governance, including versioning, traceability, lineage, and controlled change. Partner with Regulatory and Safety teams to ensure ingredient and substance data supports claims substantiation, safety assessments, and dossier readiness.
• Formulation, Packaging & R&D Workflow Enablement: Support formulation and packaging scientists with fit‑for‑purpose digital tools that enable: Efficient formulation and packaging design and iteration, Clear visibility of composition and dependencies, and Reuse of approved ingredients, formulations and packaging. Ensure seamless integration with adjacent R&D systems (e.g., regulatory, safety, lab, and portfolio platforms) to reduce manual handoffs and rework. Balance scientific flexibility with compliance, standardization, and scalability.
• Demand, Roadmap & Value Management: Own the product backlog and demand prioritization, working with senior R&D and functional leaders. Translate business needs into a value‑driven roadmap with clear outcomes tied to R&D productivity, compliance, and speed to market. Accountable for product financials, including cost forecasting and vendor management.
• Product Delivery & Platform Evolution: Lead cross‑functional delivery teams to design and deliver robust, scalable formulation, packaging and substance systems. Ensure solutions are user‑centric, intuitive, and aligned to how scientists actually work. Deliver incrementally using Agile and DevOps practices, while maintaining long‑term architectural coherence. Own platform evolution, including modernization, integration, and technical debt reduction.
• Quality, Risk & Compliance: Ensure systems meet internal security, data governance, and risk management standards. Where applicable, ensure alignment with GxP expectations and audit readiness. Proactively manage data integrity, compliance, and operational risks related to formulation, packaging and ingredient systems.
• Service Management & Lifecycle Ownership: Own the end‑to‑end product lifecycle, including run, enhancement, and retirement. Ensure appropriate service levels, support models, and escalation paths are in place. Lead resolution of complex Level 3 incidents impacting formulation, packaging or ingredient data availability.
• Adoption, Change & Ways of Working: Act as a change agent, driving adoption of new formulation, packaging and ingredient capabilities across global R&D teams. Support teams in adopting product‑centric, agile ways of working, with clear articulation of value and benefits. Build strong engagement with scientific users through continuous feedback and iterative improvement.

Basic Qualifications: Significant experience across R&D, Formulation and Packaging Science, Regulatory, Safety, Manufacturing, or Digital & Tech. Proven experience as a Product Manager or Product Owner for complex, enterprise‑scale platforms. Strong understanding of formulation development, ingredient and substance data, and their role across the product lifecycle. Track record of delivering business impact through digital enablement of scientific workflows. Experience working in regulated R&D environments with awareness of GxP implications. Strong experience with Agile and DevOps delivery models. Vendor and partner management experience. Excellent communication and influencing skills, including engagement with senior scientific and functional leaders. Relentless focus on business outcomes, simplification, and data quality.

Preferred Qualifications: Experience with formulation and packaging, ingredient, or substance management systems (commercial or bespoke). Exposure to consumer health, pharmaceutical, or life sciences R&D environments. Experience integrating formulation systems with regulatory, safety, lab, or manufacturing platforms. Passion for science‑led innovation and enabling scientists through technology.

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.

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