Domain Architect R&D and QSC

Haleon is a purpose-driven consumer company with a portfolio of brands including Sensodyne®, Panadol®, Advil®, Voltaren®, Theraflu®, Otrivin®, and Centrum®. The company is focused on delivering everyday health through a strategy called Win as One, emphasizing agile and performance-driven culture.

• 8+ years’ experience in Enterprise Architecture, strategy, or consulting roles.
• Deep experience in regulated environments (Quality, Supply Chain or Life Sciences).
• Proven ability to engage, influence, and align senior leaders and peer architects.
• Experience architecting Quality management systems, end-to-end supply chain platforms, and R&D and product lifecycle solutions.

Preferred:

• Experience working closely with multiple Domain Architects and ERP / SAP architects.
• Track record of driving enterprise platform convergence.
• Exposure to AI and advanced analytics in operational domains.
• Experience operating in large, global, regulated organisations.

Quality, Supply Chain & R&D Domain Architecture:

• Define domain strategies and target architectures across Quality (QMS, Deviations, CAPA, Change Control, Audits, Complaints), Supply Chain (Planning, Manufacturing, Logistics, Traceability, Serialization), and R&D (Clinical, Formulation, Product Development, Lab Systems, Data Management).
• Architect solutions enabling regulatory compliance, audit readiness, supply chain resilience, end-to-end visibility, faster product development, and full product lifecycle traceability.

Senior Leadership Engagement & Influence:

• Act as a trusted Enterprise Architecture advisor to senior leaders.
• Translate complex architectural topics into clear executive-level options, risks, and recommendations.
• Shape investment, prioritisation, and transformation decisions.
• Balance regulatory risk, operational resilience, speed, and cost in senior-level decision forums.

Cross-Domain Collaboration:

• Collaborate with other Domain Architects (Commercial, Corporate Functions, ERP, Technology) to design joined-up end-to-end value streams.
• Align architectural decisions to enterprise strategy.
• Prevent fragmentation and local optimisation.
• Participate in Architecture governance forums.
• Resolve cross-domain architectural tensions collaboratively.

ERP & SAP Alignment:

• Partner with ERP Domain Architect on SAP-centric processes (Manufacturing, planning, batch genealogy, quality events, compliance integration, financial and inventory alignment).
• Ensure ERP capabilities align with business processes, regulatory and validation requirements, and enterprise data and integration standards.

Strategic Platform Convergence & Simplification:

• Drive decisions to reduce tool proliferation across QSC and R&D landscapes.
• Steer towards fewer strategic global platforms and standardised core capabilities.
• Challenge domain-specific solutions undermining enterprise integrity, scalability, or compliance.

Regulatory, Quality & Compliance-by-Design Architecture:

• Embed regulatory and compliance requirements (GxP: GMP, GCP, GLP).
• Ensure data integrity, validation, auditability.
• Design quality-by-design and compliance-by-design architectures reducing manual controls.

Cross-Domain Integration & End-to-End Product Flows:

• Govern integration patterns across R&D ↔ Quality, Supply Chain ↔ Finance, Supply Chain ↔ Commercial.
• Ensure consistent master data, event handling, and traceability.
• Enable a single trusted view of product, quality, and supply performance.

Data, Analytics & AI-Enabled Architecture:

• Architect data flows for predictive quality and supply risk analytics.
• Enable end-to-end operational visibility.
• Accelerate insight across R&D and manufacturing.
• Align analytics architectures with enterprise data platforms and governance.

Architecture Governance, Portfolio & Delivery Enablement:

• Maintain architectural alignment across programmes, products, and platforms.
• Support portfolio modernisation via gap analysis and transition roadmaps.
• Collaborate with delivery teams to ensure architecture enables safe, rapid, and scalable change.

Architecture Community & Ways of Working:

• Contribute to and help lead a collaborative Domain Architect community.
• Share best practices across regulated, commercial, and corporate domains.
• Position Enterprise Architecture as a trusted internal consultancy enabling enterprise outcomes.

Haleon is committed to equal opportunities and inclusive culture. Personal information collected during the application is voluntary and used for legitimate business purposes only, never influencing employment decisions. Reasonable adjustments or accommodations during the recruitment process are provided upon request. Official communications come from a Haleon email account (@haleon.com).