Job Description

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.
About the role

• To ensure that all validation activities for equipment, facilities, utilities and cleaning are planned, executed, and maintained in compliance with global standards, regulatory requirements, and site procedures.
• The role leads and coordinates the validation lifecycle, supports continuous improvement, and ensures that the validated status of systems is sustained, thereby safeguarding product quality, operational efficiency, and regulatory compliance.

Key responsibilities

• Lead and maintain all aspects of the validation lifecycle for systems (equipment, facilities, utilities, computers and cleaning), including planning, requirements, verification of design, testing, qualification, summary reporting, and maintaining validated status.
• Maintains the Site Validation Master Plan (SVMP). Lead the Validation Working Party by scheduling and minuting regular meetings to coordinate validation activities and ensure cross-functional team alignment
• Prepare and execute Validation Master Plans, Validation Plans, and Protocols for systems following current industry and company standards. Compile and review validation reports, ensuring thorough documentation of all validation activities and data.
• Provide technical input into User Requirement Specifications (URS) for new equipment. Coordinate and document the Design Qualification (DQ) process to ensure all design aspects meet validation requirements.
• Develop and execute test protocols and scripts, including Installation Qualification (IQ), Operational Qualification (OQ) and Performance Qualification (PQ) for systems.
• Liaise with projects, supply planning, departmental personnel, and contractors or suppliers to ensure validation requirements are met and maintained throughout the lifecycle. Ensure compliance with global standards, regulatory requirements, and site-specific procedures, including Occupational Health and Safety and Environmental Health and Safety (EHS) policies.
• Conduct risk assessments, lead root cause analyses, and resolve deviations related to equipment, facilities, utilities and cleaning systems.
• Serve as the site subject matter expert (SME) for cleaning validation, maintaining the site cleaning lifecycle process, assessing the impact of new products or changes, and ensuring that cleaning validation execution demonstrates reproducible results and ongoing process control. Coaches and develop the technical team to ensure cleaning validation execution and monitoring is in place to ensure the process remains in a validated state of control.
• Provides input into and ensures preparation (or revision) of applicable system standard operating procedure.
• Ensure clear, timely communication of technical recommendations, project progress, and improvement actions to all relevant stakeholders.
• Prepare, track, and present key performance indicators (KPIs) for validation activities using data to drive continuous improvement. Responsible for the delivery of all validation lifecycle activities.
• Ensure all technical activities and documentation comply with regulatory and corporate standards; provide technical input for audits and regulatory submissions. Interacts with internal and external auditors to support site inspections.
• Conduct all work activities in accordance with the Environment Health, Safety and Wellbeing Policy QD-POL-000823, maintaining a secure and healthy workplace and complying with EHS and Engineering standards and site procedures.

Qualifications and skills
Required

• BSc (Pharmaceutical Chemistry/ Science/ Engineering) or National Diploma (Chemical Engineering/ Analytical Chemistry).
• Experience of Pharmaceutical/FMCG or other regulated industry (preferably 5 years or more).
• Experience of working in a regulated environment.
• Working as part of a cross functional team.
• Demonstrated experience in project management.

Other Skills/Qualifications

• Good leadership skills.
• Good communication and documentation skills.
• Good organizational skills and attention to detail.
• Team player.
• Self-starter and curious.

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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.
Job Posting End Date
2026-02-13
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.

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