Digital Factory Lead 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.

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

We are accelerating our journey towards a fully connected, data-driven, and future-ready manufacturing operation. The Digital Factory Lead is a pivotal architect of this transformation, shaping and deploying Haleon’s Factory of the Future vision across our global sites. This role partners closely with Quality and Supply Chain (QSC), Technology, Data, Manufacturing Sites, and the Global Operational Excellence team to build the digital foundations that enable world-class performance, operational excellence, and empowered teams.

This senior leadership role goes beyond delivering individual digital projects. It orchestrates an integrated portfolio of digital workstreams that are hard-wired to Haleon’s manufacturing excellence strategy and our definition of “what great looks like.” The Digital Factory Lead ensures that every digital solution—whether foundational infrastructure or advanced use case—contributes directly to productivity, resilience, and long-term capability building across the network.

Key responsibilities

• Shape and lead Haleon’s Factory of the Future strategy, ensuring digital foundations, platforms, and capabilities are aligned to the manufacturing excellence vision and drive measurable business outcomes.
• Partner closely with manufacturing sites to understand operational needs, co-create digital use cases, and ensure solutions are practical, scalable, and embedded into daily operations.
• Collaborate with the Global Operational Excellence team to align digital workstreams with HAPS, capability building, and Haleon’s broader manufacturing excellence roadmap.
• Lead the team to define and implement core digital systems (e.g., MES/PAS-X, connected worker platforms, OEE solutions) as part of an integrated digital architecture.
• Translate site needs into a unified digital roadmap, ensuring use cases are prioritized, standardized, and embedded into a cohesive network-wide digital operating model.
• Act as a strategic influencer across business, technology, engineering, and quality, championing IT/OT convergence, data governance, and platform-based thinking.
• Provide governance and oversight for digital foundations and use-case portfolios, ensuring resources, timelines, and investments support the broader Factory of the Future vision.
• Benchmark externally (e.g., Gartner, McKinsey) to integrate leading practices and ensure Haleon remains at the forefront of digital manufacturing.

These responsibilities require a strategic, collaborative leader with a deep understanding of digital transformation, manufacturing systems, and the ability to drive results in a complex, fast-paced environment.

Core Competencies

• Visionary Digital Leadership: Shapes a bold Factory of the Future vision and connects it to site-level execution and manufacturing excellence.
• Influence Without Authority: Builds alignment across diverse technical and business teams; drives decisions in complex, matrixed environments.
• Operational & Technical Mastery: Deep understanding of manufacturing systems, digital platforms, and IT/OT infrastructure required for a modern factory ecosystem.
• Value-Driven Portfolio Management: Prioritises and sequences digital workstreams to maximize impact, scalability, and long-term capability building.
• Collaboration & Communication: Builds trust across functions, sites, and geographies; translates complex digital concepts into clear, actionable direction.
• Innovation & Agility: Challenges legacy ways of working, embraces experimentation, and drives continuous improvement across the network.

Qualifications & experience

Essential

• The ideal candidate will bring a blend of industry technical experience and a customer-focused mindset to drive digital transformation across our global operations.
• Degree in Supply Chain, Engineering, Technology, or a Science-related field.
• Extensive experience in manufacturing operations and digital transformation.
• Proven ability to lead large-scale digital deployments across complex networks.
• Strong understanding of end-to-end supply chain and manufacturing systems.
• Demonstrated leadership, stakeholder management, and project management excellence.
• Customer-centric mindset with a focus on value creation and user experience.
• Innovative, agile, and comfortable with rapid iteration and learning.

Preferred

• Proven experience in leading digital transformation initiatives within GAMAM (Google, Amazon, Microsoft, Apple, Meta) organizations, demonstrating a deep understanding of cutting-edge technologies, scalable solutions, and best practices in driving large-scale digital innovation across global operations.

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

The Haleon recruitment team will contact you using a Haleon email.