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.
This is a fixed term role starting 1st of August 2026
As an Operational Excellence & Compliance Planner, you will drive and deliver cross-functional initiatives within the QSC organization, supporting transformation, and continuous improvement. You act as a key orchestrator, ensuring alignment with business objectives, effective stakeholder engagement, and the achievement of project goals within scope, time, and budget.
This role will provide YOU the opportunity to lead key activities to progress YOUR career. These responsibilities include some of the following:
- Lead and manage end-to-end operational excellence initiatives across the DACH QSC organization, from initiation through closure, ensuring delivery of agreed outcomes.
- Support QSC teams in ensuring clarity and alignment of group priorities and activities to Haleon’s strategic goals and objectives, across markets, brands, platforms, and sites .
- Collaborate closely with the Programs & Performance Lead and other team members to support horizontal topics and future-oriented initiatives.
- Work closely with global, regional and local stakeholders to ensure that initiatives are endorsed for implementation and site’s resources allocated.
- Develop detailed project plans, define scope, objectives, deliverables, and success criteria in alignment with organizational strategy.
- Coordinate cross-functional teams, ensuring clear roles, responsibilities, and effective communication. Identify, engage and manage stakeholders.
- Effectively report, track and facilitate progress of the key initiatives and proactively manage risks and issues across groups, as well as help standardise the process as required.
- Drive adoption of best practices in project management, including Agile or Waterfall methodologies as appropriate.
- Facilitate workshops, meetings, and decision-making sessions to ensure alignment and momentum.
- Drive continuous improvement initiatives in all the processes in scope of the BU Supply Chain (IMS, Demand Planning, O2C, Master Data, etc).
Why you?
Basic Qualifications:
- Master's degree in Business, Engineering, Supply Chain, or related field.
- 3+ years of experience in project management and/or continuous improvement and operations excellence, preferably in supply chain, quality, or transformation environments.
- Proven track record of full scope and on time project delivery for complex international cross-functional projects.
- Strong organizational, analytical, and problem-solving skills and proven experience in commercial/data analysis
- Excellent stakeholder management and communication abilities; able to influence and align cross-functional teams.
- Experience with project management tools (e.g., MS Project, JIRA, Smartsheet).
- Experience in working across cultural and multi-functional specificities in complex situations.
- Demonstrated ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously and deliver results in a matrix environment.
- Fluent in English; German or other market languages are a plus.
- Certification in project management (e.g., PMP, Prince2, Agile) is a plus.
Why Haleon?
- Join a dynamic team in an inspiring and international environment, right in the heart of Munich. Embrace our engaging culture of open, direct communication, or "Du-Kultur," while working in a central location.
- Enjoy the flexibility of remote work while maintaining a healthy work-life balance. Our hybrid model allows employees to work from the office three days per week, with the option to work from home as needed. Additionally, you can work up to 10 days per year from abroad, and our flexible time-tracking models provide even more freedom.
- We offer more than just a paycheck. Along with a competitive salary aligned with the collective agreement, you’ll receive a performance-based bonus that recognizes your contributions to our shared success. As per our agreement, you’ll enjoy at least 30 vacation days, special leave for important occasions, holiday pay, an annual bonus, and a company pension plan.
- We are committed to helping you balance your professional and personal life through flexible working arrangements and a comprehensive benefits package. We support mothers, fathers, and same-sex couples in family planning. Following the birth of a child, employees are entitled to family-friendly time off, as well as a birth allowance, a childcare subsidy, and access to emergency childcare services to ease your return to work.
- Health and well-being are a priority. We provide comprehensive health benefits, including vaccinations, regular access to our products, and sports-related perks. Plus, you’ll enjoy attractive corporate discounts on fashion, sports activities, concerts, and lifestyle offerings, as well as a subsidized canteen with healthy meal options.
- Your growth matters to us. We offer an extensive range of training opportunities, covering leadership, business skills, and technical competencies. You can even participate in our own "Mini-MBA" program at no cost to advance your career.
- We also make mobility easy and sustainable with a travel allowance, free underground parking in Munich, and our "Lease-a-bike" program.
Job Posting End Date
2026-06-16
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.
Adjustment or Accommodations Request
If you require a reasonable adjustment or accommodation or other assistance to apply for a job at Haleon at any stage of the application process, please let your recruiter know by providing them with a description of specific adjustments you are requesting. We’ll provide all reasonable adjustments to support you throughout the recruitment process and treat all information you provide us in confidence.
Note to candidates
The Haleon recruitment team will contact you using a Haleon email account (@haleon.com). If you are not sure whether the email you received is from Haleon, please get in touch.
