Environment, Health & Safety

The primary goal of the Regional EHSW Leader is to protect employees, communities, and the environment across the region by ensuring EHS risks are systematically identified, effectively managed, and continuously reduced. This role ensures regional compliance with all applicable federal, state and local regulations as well as Haleon policies and standards related to air, water, soil, waste, occupational health, safety and sustainability.

Responsibilities

• Provide regional leadership and governance for EHS performance, monitoring and reporting key indicators; identify trends and drive continuous improvement across all sites/locations in the region.
• Ensure regional EHS objectives, targets and improvement plans are aligned with corporate EHS strategies, priorities and long‑term sustainability goals.
• Lead and oversee investigations of serious EHS incidents, high‑potential events and significant near‑misses across the region, ensuring consistent root‑cause analysis and effective corrective and preventive actions.
• Promote and apply advanced risk‑management methodologies, proactively identifying, assessing and controlling risks.
• Oversee the closure of audit, inspection and regulatory findings across the region.
• Drive and continuously strengthen the EHS and safety culture across the region, embedding safe behaviours, leadership accountability and employee engagement in daily operations.
• Ensure consistent application of Haleon policies, standards and the internal control framework at the site level.
• Provide regional oversight of EHS budgets and resource planning, ensuring appropriate investment in risk reduction, compliance and capability development.
• Lead and support regional crisis management and emergency preparedness programmes, ensuring effective business continuity, loss prevention and resilience across sites.
• Drive integrated environmental management to reduce environmental impacts, improve sustainability performance and support Haleon’s environmental commitments.
• Partner with shared services and functions—Quality, Engineering, Continuous Improvement, HR, IT, Procurement, Sustainability, Legal and third‑party partners—to ensure EHS is fully integrated into regional strategies, risk mapping and business continuity planning.
• Build the Regional Wellness Strategy and programme in partnership with HR and the global network.
• Build and maintain strong relationships with internal and external stakeholders, including regulators, to demonstrate influence, effective communication and ethical decision‑making aligned with Haleon’s values.
• Coach, mentor and develop regional and site EHS leaders, supporting succession planning and talent development.

Core Competencies

• Influence without authority: demonstrates credibility and leadership presence across diverse teams and levels, guiding and inspiring site leaders and EHS professionals without direct reporting lines.
• People leadership & coaching: proven ability to lead and develop high‑performing teams, fostering a culture of servant leadership, continuous learning and empowerment.
• EHS/W excellence mastery: deep understanding of culture and systems, capable of designing and deploying best‑in‑class operational models that drive measurable improvements across multiple sites.
• Strategic performance management: sets clear performance expectations and aligns site‑level execution with regional and global scorecard metrics using data‑driven insights.
• Problem solving: balances business impact with analytical and planning skills to define clear pathways for function collaborators and customers.
• Priority setting at pace: flexibility in managing changing priorities and absorbing new information rapidly.
• Communication & collaboration: exceptional communicator who builds trust and alignment across functions, geographies and seniority levels.
• Knowledge sharing & benchmarking: builds and sustains a regional knowledge hub for best‑practice sharing and benchmarks performance against internal and external leaders.

Basic Qualifications

• Professional with 15+ years experience delivering improvements in EHS outcomes at a site, regional or global level.
• NEBOSH certificate, diploma or equivalent, with demonstrated CPD.
• Membership of one or more organisations such as the Institute of Occupational Safety & Health, the UK Institute of Risk Management, IEMA, IIPD, ASSP, AIHA, IOSH etc.
• Bachelor’s degree in Science or Engineering.
• Experience in pharmaceutical manufacturing, chemical manufacturing or FMCG.
• Experience in complex regulatory frameworks and multiple regulatory bodies.

Preferred Qualifications

• Employee Health & Safety post‑graduation certification (e.g., Cert, Dip, BSc, MSc or IOSH).
• Project management certification (Prince2, PMP).
• Intermediate fluency in a second language.

Equal Opportunities

Haleon is committed to mobilising our purpose in a way that represents the diverse consumers and communities who rely on our brands every day. We are an inclusive culture where different backgrounds and views are valued and respected. Your personal information will remain confidential and will not be used for hiring decisions.

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