Global Leadership Development Manager

Hello. We’re Haleon. A new world-leading consumer health company. Shaped by all who join us. Together, we’re improving everyday health for billions of people. By growing and innovating our global portfolio of category-leading brands – including Sensodyne, Panadol, Advil, Voltaren, Theraflu, Otrivin, and Centrum – through a unique combination of deep human understanding and trusted science. What’s more, we’re achieving it in a company that we’re in control of. In an environment that we’re co-creating. And a culture that’s uniquely ours. Care to join us. It isn’t a question. 

With category leading brands such as Sensodyne, Voltaren and Centrum, built on trusted science and human understanding, and combined with our passion, knowledge and expertise, we’re uniquely placed to do this and to grow a strong, successful business.  

This is an exciting time to join us and help shape the future. It’s an opportunity to be part of something special. 

About the role 

We are seeking a strategic and results driven Global Leadership Development Manager to help design, implement and scale worldclass leadership development initiatives across our global leader population, with a focus on our senior leaders (including our HET-1 and GM population). This role will be instrumental in cultivating a strong leadership pipeline, enhancing leadership capability and building a high performing culture.

This role reports to the Global Head of Leadership Development and is based in London Bankside, United Kingdom.  

Key Responsibilities: 

• Design and lead global leadership development programs for senior leaders across the global organisation including in-person, virtual, and blended learning formats. 

• Collaborate with Functional experts, Senior leaders, HR, Learning Services and 3rd party vendors to scope and build relevant programmes, tools and resources for leadership development and develop implementation and engagement plans for their deployment. 

• Evaluate program effectiveness through KPIs, feedback, and business impact assessments. 

• Gather internal and external data and insights to inform evolution of leadership development strategy and priorities. 

• Stay current on global leadership trends, technologies, and best practices to ensure programs remain innovative and effective.  

• Provide thought leadership and governance to continuously evolve our Leadership Development approach, enabling consistency for impact and simplification for local BU/functional deployment where relevant. 

• Communicate with and partner/coach/advise HRBLs and senior leaders regarding Leadership Development processes and interventions. Provide upskilling of HR/leaders where relevant. 

• Build strong internal and external networks to ensure we are continually meeting the needs of our leadership population and bringing relevance and innovation to our leadership development portfolio. 

Qualifications and skills 

Essential 

• Bachelor’s degree in Human Resources, Organizational Development, Psychology, or related field. 

• 8 years of experience in leadership development, talent management, or related areas in a global organization. 

• Proven experience in designing and/or executing leadership development programs across diverse cultures and regions (preferably for senior/executive level populations) with a preference for design, deployment and measurement.  

• Understanding and experience of best practice Leadership development approaches that are fit-for-purpose and targeted at gaining focused outcomes.  

• Able to navigate across complexity, this role requires end-to-end programme management, partnering with experts to bring best in practice design and delivery to the organisation.  

• Strong stakeholder management skills and project management experience should ideally include the design, planning, governance, phasing, and implementation of projects as well as tools and techniques for issues and risk management, decision making and reporting.  

• Excellent communication (written and verbal) and interpersonal skills and confident in engaging with and influencing stakeholders across the different parts of the organization (geographies, levels, functions)  

• Commercial intelligence and a solid understanding of our end-to-end business.   

• Familiarity with assessment tools (e.g., MBTI, DISC, 360s) and leadership frameworks. 

Preferred 

• Specialist Organisational Development and/or Leadership development expertise. 

• Strong facilitation and coaching skills. 

• Working in multinational or global matrixed organisations and cross-cultural environments, ideally has worked in global roles before. 

• Proficiency in Learning Management Systems (LMS) and virtual training platforms. 

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Diversity, Equity and Inclusion  

At Haleon we embrace our diverse workforce by creating an inclusive environment that celebrates our unique perspectives, generates curiosity to create unmatched understanding of each other, and promotes fair and equitable outcomes for everyone. 

We’re striving to create a climate where we celebrate our diversity in all forms by treating each other with respect, listening to different viewpoints, supporting our communities, and creating a workplace where your authentic self belongs and thrives. 

We believe in an agile working culture for all our roles. If flexibility is important to you, we encourage you to explore with our hiring team what the opportunities are.