Programme Governance Manager

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.

Overview

The Enterprise Transformation Programme is a multi-year journey focused on transforming Haleon by building an organisation wired for excellence to deliver the Win as One strategy and drive growth through continuous improvement. The programme aims to strengthen the heartbeat of our business to become more agile, efficient, and innovative and is enabled through SAP S/4HANA. The Programme Governance Manager plays a critical role in turning this ambition into reality by ensuring the Enterprise Transformation delivery enables the functional ambition and unlocks value at pace.

Role Responsibilities

The Programme Governance Manager is responsible for operating and maintaining the programme's governance framework, ensuring the programme's choices are managed with discipline, transparency and pace. The role orchestrates governance forums, readiness checkpoints, and assurance interactions, working in close partnership with the Programme Governance Lead and PMO to ensure governance enables confident decision-making and protection of delivery outcomes.

• Governance framework operation - Operate the programme's governance framework, ensuring it is consistently applied across all workstreams, phases, and forums. Translate governance principles, roles, and decision rights into practical ways of working that teams follow. Keep governance artefacts, calendars and cadence aligned as the programme scales and evolves. Maintain governance artefacts and documentation to a standard suitable for Independent Programme Assurance (IPA), Internal Audit or External Audit scrutiny.

Governance Cadence and Forum Management

• Manage the end-to-end governance cadence (e.g. SteerCo, programme leadership forums, readiness checkpoints).
• Ensure papers, pre-reads and agendas are decision-ready, proportionate and focused on material risks and choices.
• Track decisions, actions, and escalations ensuring follow through and closure.
• Partner with the Transformation Office portfolio team, collaborating effectively to support enterprise transformation governance requirements.
• Ensure escalations are well-structured, evidence-based and decision-oriented, not issue-driven or reactive.
• Coordinate the agreed IPA assurance activity plan in line with programme phase and stage-gate timing.

Stakeholder Engagement

• Act as a trusted advisor to programme and workstream leaders, framing complex delivery, risk and assurance topics into clear decision narratives.
• Act as a key day-to-day contact for Independent Programme Assurance, audit and risk functions, supporting evidence provision and tracking actions to closure.
• Communicate effectively, adapting messaging for different audiences to ensure clarity and engagement in the programme objectives.
• Engage effectively with a wide range of stakeholders with differing priorities and risk appetites.

Governance Maturity & Continuous Improvement

• Support the embedding of a culture of transparency, early escalation, and decision discipline across programme workstreams.
• Use IPA insights to identify governance inefficiencies or gaps and continuously uplift governance maturity as the programme scales between phases.
• Work with workstream leads to uplift governance maturity, providing guidance and constructive challenge.
• Maintain clear line of sight for Programme Leads to ensure no assurance actions age out without resolution.
• Partner with the Programme Governance Lead to determine which IPA findings require executive attention and which can be resolved within management control.
• Listen proactively to stakeholder feedback, identifying themes and refining governance ways of working to maintain relevance, efficiency, and buy-in across programme phases.

Experience and Key Competencies

• Strong, demonstrated capability in operating complex transformation programme governance frameworks ensuring consistency, discipline and relevance across workstreams and programme phases.
• Strong capability in orchestrating governance cadence, agendas, decisions, actions and follow-through.
• Comfortable working with Independent Programme Assurance (IPA), audit and risk functions, and translating assurance insight into practical action.
• Demonstrated understanding of governance as an enabler of outcomes.
• Proven ability to translate complex programme information into clear, decision-focused inputs for governance forums.
• Confidence in constructively challenging poor escalation quality, understated risks or deferred decisions, while maintaining relationships.
• Strong influencing and communication skills across stakeholders, with ability to align differing priorities around a shared governance model.
• Communicates confidently, able to adapt style without losing precision or control.

Equal Opportunities

Haleon is committed to mobilising our purpose in a way that represents diverse consumers and communities. We strive to create an inclusive culture where different backgrounds and views are valued and respected, and all employees feel they truly belong. 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.

Note to Candidates

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