HR Site Lead, Manufacturing Site

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 currently seeking an HR Site Lead, Manufacturing to join our team in Aprilia. The HR Site Lead will develop the local people strategy & priorities based on the site and functional needs, driving the business strategy and global people priorities. They will partner and coach the Site Leadership team to impact performance, drive growth and operational excellence through talent, capability, performance, engagement and organisation effectiveness. The HR Site Lead is also accountable for driving functional and cultural transformation.

Key Responsibilities
This role will provide YOU with the opportunity to lead key activities to progress YOUR career. These responsibilities include some of the following…

Talent & Capability:

• Develop and drive a proactive talent strategy across the organisation, partnering with business leaders to identify, develop, and retain key talent and drive diversity.
• Lead regular talent and succession planning sessions on the site, using potential and readiness mapping (Assess). Identify successors for key roles, assess bench strength, and define targeted development actions with leaders to enhance capability needs.
• Partner with TA Teams to ensure quality of hires and enhance employer branding by providing insights into employee experience and company culture. Support early career recruitment by participating in site events and developing outreach strategies suited to your market.
• Drive capability development by aligning talent strategies with business goals, identifying skill gaps, and implementing targeted training and development programs, utilising functional and global learning programs where necessary.
• Own leadership development for site leadership teams and potential successors – ensuring right coaching, mentoring and support is in place to develop impactful, inclusive, and inspiring leaders.

Performance Management:

• Partner with leaders to drive a high-performance culture through effective goal setting, feedback, development, and performance review practices. Support upskilling and leadership development.
• Support performance management and change initiatives to foster a culture of continuous learning, ensuring the workforce is equipped to meet organizational objectives.
• Organisation Effectiveness
• Lead or support business transformation efforts, drive organisational redesign to become future-fit, and embed change management practices to improve agility and effectiveness.
• Serve as a coach and thought partner to business leaders, helping them enhance leadership impact, develop their teams, and build organizational health.
• Leverage data and AI to provide insight into workforce trends across all core HR metrics, inform opportunities to drive performance and impact further, and measure the effectiveness of people initiatives.

Culture & Engagement:

• Act as a culture steward by leading engagement initiatives, interpreting feedback (e.g., surveys), enabling action planning, and championing values and behaviours.
• Drive cultural transformation with the leadership team, ensuring that all levels of the organisation are clear on behaviours and expectations to support the overall business growth.
• Manage employee relations cases, ensure compliance with local labor laws and HR policies, advise managers on people risks, and uphold a fair and consistent approach to issue resolution.
• Partner with the business to create inclusive environments, drive equitable talent practices, and improve representation and belonging across the employee lifecycle.

One HR:

• Build strong relationships with COEs (eg Talent, Reward, Learning, Org Effectiveness), to collaborate for impact and drive initiatives required for the business needs.
• Partner with People Services to ensure seamless employee lifecycle management, including hiring, onboarding, movers, organisational changes, and exits.
• Encourage self-service where possible, partnering with People Services to ensure employees are able to access information they require seamlessly.
• Maintain data accuracy and compliance, and use Workday for reporting and insight generation.

Qualifications and skills:
We are looking for professionals with these required skills to achieve our goals:

• University degree in Business or Human Resources.
• 10 years of experience in Human Resources, 3-4 years as a Site Lead with accountability for various client groups.
• Extensive experience in HR in a variety of HR functions (generalist – recruitment, talent & succession planning, learning & development, compensation & benefits, employee & labor relations, cultural transformation), plus management of staff is an asset.
• Ability to learn quickly, create innovative solutions, work effectively in teams and develop & inspire others.
• Ability to design people strategy & priorities, aligned to the site and functional needs.
• Project & change management (eg. organisational design & effectiveness), ability to operate in complex environment with minimal supervision and competing demands.
• Strong interpersonal skills, relationship management and influencing skills to advise and coach leaders at all levels in the organization, to ultimately drive performance & effectiveness.
• Strong business acumen and strategic thinking.
• Strong communication, storytelling and listening skills for effective engagement and influence

Preferred Qualifications:
If you have the following characteristics, it would be a plus:

• MBA or Master's degree an asset, but not required
• Experience in a food, pharmaceutical, or consumer health manufacturing environment a major asset

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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.

Care to join us. Find out what life at Haleon is really like

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.

As you apply, we will ask you to share some personal information, which is entirely voluntary. We want to have an opportunity to consider a diverse pool of qualified candidates and this information will assist us in meeting that objective and in understanding how well we are doing against our inclusion and diversity ambitions. We would really appreciate it if you could take a few moments to complete it. Rest assured, Hiring Managers do not have access to this information and we will treat your information confidentially.

Haleon is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive equal consideration for employment without regard to race, color, national origin, religion, sex, pregnancy, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, age, disability, genetic information, military service, covered/protected veteran status or any other federal, state or local protected class.

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