Associate Director - Clinical Research in London

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.

The Associate Director, Clinical Research will play a key role in delivering clinical development excellence across Haleon-sponsored clinical studies and evidence-generation activities. This role is responsible for shaping clinical and real-world evidence strategies aligned with category and sub-category project needs, with a particular focus on the Oral Health portfolio.

The position requires close collaboration with internal partners—including Medical Affairs, Clinical Operations, Biostatistics & Data Management—as well as external investigators, academic researchers, CROs, and healthcare practitioners. The role contributes directly to advancing innovation through Trusted Science.

• Provide scientific and technical input into category, sub-category, and Business Unit clinical development plans.
• Design fit-for-purpose clinical and evidence-generation strategies (with support from senior clinical leaders) to enable innovation, including Rx-to-OTC switch programs and medical devices.
• Support the development of high-quality scientific publications.
• Implement novel research methodologies aligned with ICH GCP to generate impactful clinical evidence supporting product launches, brand positioning, and claims.
• Responsible for the design, implementation, reporting, interpretation, disclosure and publication of clinical studies detailed in research programs supporting consumer healthcare/category products and to ensure these follow external e.g. GCP, internal Medical Governance and other internal policy requirements.
• Responsible for contributing clinical content to regulatory submissions and other regulatory engagements for clinical research activities.
• Work closely with the pre-clinical team to ensure pre-requisite data are available to progress clinical activities.
• Responsible for supporting clinical/medical due diligence for external opportunities from a clinical research point of view.
• Keep up to date with relevant therapeutic/scientific literature and provide clinical expertise to facilitate preparation of clinical development and therapeutic strategies for all categories/products.

• Clinical Science or Medical/Dental or related discipline
• Experience in clinical research/drug development in the Pharmaceutical or Healthcare industry
• Previous experience within Oral Health
• Experience in VMS or OTC
• Experience of delivering clinical development programs/clinical studies/clinical evidence gathering activities

• Consumer Health care experience is greatly preferred.
• Interactions with Health Authorities, such as FDA
• Competent business acumen. Excellent influencing skills, which are applied effectively at all levels of the organisation and across functional boundaries, especially towards the senior management level.

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.

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