China Technical Lead

About the role

The Regional Technical Lead - China is accountable for end‑to‑end technical lifecycle strategy, execution and technical performance across formulation and packaging for the China Operating Unit to enable growth, margin, cash and stewardship. The role is mission‑critical in ensuring technical readiness, compliant supply, robust innovation delivery, and sustainable cost competitiveness in one of Haleon's most complex and regulated markets. This role acts as the single regional technical integrator, connecting Category strategy, Innovation, Product Lifecycle Management (PLM), Packaging, Site Technical, and external manufacturing partners (CMOs/CDMOs). It ensures that technical decisions are aligned to business strategy, regulatory requirements (eg trusted ingredients, spec management), and long‑term supply resilience, including sourcing decisions while enabling speed to market and margin delivery.

Responsibilities

• End‑to‑End Technical Lifecycle Ownership
• Own and execute the regional technical lifecycle plan for China, covering formulation and packaging across innovation (technical execution), product maintenance, technical transfers, and simplification initiatives.
• Ensure technical readiness, aligning design, manufacturing capability, validation, and supply robustness with category and regional priorities.
• Accountable for technical execution of complex projects, including innovation launches, value engineering, product maintenance, waste reduction, and process optimization initiatives.
• Build highly capable and performing Regional and Site Technical Teams ensuring local subject matter expertise, interdependent with global Technical, leveraging global SMEs.
• Technical Strategy & Category Enablement
• Partner with Category, R&D, Marketing, and Commercial teams to translate category strategy into executable regional technical roadmaps.
• Lead product, technology, and competitor benchmarking, driving formulation and packaging simplification in line with Design‑to‑Value principles.
• Ensure alignment between Innovation leaders and Category Technical Readiness Leads for disciplined innovation execution and lifecycle management.
• Develop and maintain a documented China Technical, clearly aligned to: China Business Strategy
• Portfolio and category priorities
• Supply risk and POS outlook
• Use the strategy to prioritize work, guide stakeholder alignment, and unlock value at pace.
• Product Introduction Technical Leadership (Technical Readiness)
• Lead regional technical execution for NPIs and geo‑expansion projects, ensuring on‑time, in‑full delivery with scalable and compliant post‑launch supply.
• Own technical readiness governance deliverables across innovation stages, ensuring readiness for capital investment, sourcing decisions, and manufacturing scale‑up.
• Champion Design‑to‑Value and Design‑for‑Manufacture to deliver robust, cost‑effective formulations and packaging solutions.
• Product Lifecycle Management & Technical Stewardship
• Oversee technical maintenance activities, including formulation robustness, process optimization (e.g., BCT, ingredient harmonisation), validation, and technical transfers.
• Lead PLM initiatives focused on complexity reduction (accountable for formulation simplification), margin improvement, and portfolio synergies, ensuring regulatory and quality compliance throughout the product lifecycle.
• Drive technical risk management, including troubleshooting, CAPA effectiveness, and continuous improvement embedded in Quality‑by‑Design principles.
• Packaging & Sustainability Leadership
• Provide regional technical leadership for packaging development, qualification, and validation across internal sites and CMOs.
• Drive packaging transformation and sustainability initiatives, including simplification (accountable for pack simplification), efficiency improvements, and delivery of environmental targets.
• Lead packaging value engineering programs with Procurement, sites and suppliers to deliver cost, resilience, and performance improvements.
• Network, CMO & Site Technical Integration
• Ensure strong matrix leadership o

Benefits

Additional Information

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.

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