Senior CMO Manager, DY

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.

Key responsibilities:

1. Innovation Project Delivery (Douyin Sprint Focus)

• Lead multiple concurrent innovation projects designed for Douyin channel growth, including: o Fast-track NPI / SKU extensions o Packaging or format adaptations for Douyin o Rapid relaunches, upgrades, or cost-down variants

• Own project performance on speed, launch readiness, cost, and quality, with clear prioritization aligned to Douyin commercial calendar.

• Apply agile project management principles to enable short development cycles, rapid decision-making, and fast issue resolution.

2. Project Initiation & Planning

• Translate Douyin commercial needs into clear project scope, timelines, and deliverables.

• Develop simplified but robust business cases and project plans suitable for fast approval and execution.

• Define critical path, key risks, and mitigation plans upfront to protect speed-to-market.

3. Execution, Risk & Stakeholder Management

• Drive execution with cross-functional teams including QA, R&D, Technical, Procurement, Regulatory, Packaging, Planning, Artwork and CMO partners.

• Act as single point of contact across internal stakeholders and external CMOs for Douyin-related projects.

• Proactively manage risks, bottlenecks, and trade-offs between speed, cost, and compliance, escalating decisively when required.

4. CMO & External Partner Management

• Coordinate closely with CMO sites to ensure alignment on accelerated timelines and equipment/capacity readiness for fast ramp-ups

• Support rapid onboarding of new CMOs or processes when required to meet Douyin demand.

5. Governance, Reporting & Documentation

• Maintain lean but effective documentation appropriate for sprint-based delivery while ensuring full traceability.

• Ensure all activities comply with GxP requirements and internal Haleon quality standards, even under accelerated timelines.

• Provide clear, concise project updates to Supply Chain, Commercial and Management teams, focusing on launch readiness and risks.

6. Project Closure & Continuous Improvement

• Lead structured handover to operations and supply planning teams.

• Conduct post-launch reviews to capture learnings and improve future Douyin sprint execution.

Requirements:

- 8-10 years experience in manufacturing, technical or procurement roles in pharmaceutical, Health food, consumers goods industries

- Breadth of knowledge and experience apply cGMPs and other regulations/guidance with an ability to interpret those in a fast-paced environment

- Strong leadership and influencing capability to lead and align cross functional members and external partners

- Excellent learn agility to acquire knowledge in new industries and fields

- Excellent problem-solving capability

- Bachelor or master’s degree of Food, Chemistry, Science, Biology in education

 

 

 

 Job Posting End Date

 

 

2026-07-25

 

 

 

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.

 

 

 

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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.