HRBL US Commercial

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

The HR Business Leader for US Commercial is a senior HR leader in the North America HR team, partnering with the US Category GMs, the NA Chief Marketing Officer and their respective leadership teams to drive growth through people, culture, and organizational effectiveness. These commercial colleagues are primarily located in the Operating Unit HQ in Warren, NJ.

The HR Business Leader for US Commercial sets and delivers a forward-looking HR agenda aligned to NA growth priorities—serving as a trusted advisor to senior leaders, developing talent, and embedding enterprise transformation, Win as One behaviors, and cultural priorities.

The role partners closely with U.S. and NA business leaders, the North America HR team, Talent and Global Reward Centers of Excellence, and People Services to deliver HR interventions at pace. You will also work with the President/CEO of North America, with a skip-level reporting line to that role and dotted skip-level reporting to the Global CHRO.

Haleon is in a key phase of transformation, and this role helps lead the talent agenda, embed operating model changes, improve ways of working, and strengthen our Win as One culture through change leadership, business partnership, and coaching.

To thrive in this role, you will be in the Warren office at least 3 days per week, with occasional off-site meetings at leadership sessions, aligned to our Hybrid@Haleon. approach.

Key Responsibilities

Strategic HR Partnership 

• Set and deliver the HR agenda for the US Category and NA Marketing/Innovation teams, aligned to business priorities and enterprise Win as One strategy. 

• Act as a core member of the Category, CMO and Innovation leadership teams, providing coaching, constructive challenge, and insight to senior leaders. 

• Translate commercial strategy into people, capability, and organizational plans. 

Talent Management & Succession 

• Build and sustain a strong pipeline for key leadership roles in the partnered groups including movement across teams and functions. 

• Coach leaders to lead intentionally across the full talent lifecycle, including attraction, selection, development, succession planning, and retention. 

• Use success profiles and workforce planning insights to anticipate future capability needs and shape hiring and development plans. 

• Partner with Global Reward experts to use internal data and external market insight to shape and deliver reward strategies to attract and retain key talent. 

• Coach leaders to provide effective feedback and differentiate and reward performance appropriately and equitably. 

Leadership Development & Coaching 

• Provide high-impact coaching to senior leaders to strengthen leadership effectiveness, decision-making, and impact on people. 

• Develop leaders’ capability to lead culture, performance, and talent in a complex, matrixed environment. 

• Build coaching and feedback capability across the broader leadership population. 

Culture, Change & Engagement 

• Drive the Win as One culture with a focus on performance, learning and growth. 

• Serve as a visible change leader, embed Win as One behaviors, and culture through structured change management approaches. 

• Diagnose cultural and engagement needs, champion engagement, influence leaders to build inclusive, high-performing teams. 

Organizational Effectiveness 

• Partner with leaders on organization design, workforce planning, and structural optimization to enable our Win as One strategy delivery. 

• Apply data analytics, insights and external benchmarks to diagnose organizational challenges and evaluate solutions. 

• Lead operating model change design and execution, ensuring benefits realization and sustained performance improvement. 

HR Governance, Risk & Employee Relations 

• Ensure HR governance, risk mitigation, and compliance with employment legislation and company policies. 

• Manage employee relations issues, partnering with ER as needed. 

• Ensure company reputation through sound judgment, ethical leadership, and effective escalation management. 
   

Why you? 

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Human Resources Management, Business Administration or related course of study.

• 10-15 years of experience as a HRBP, with strong understanding of key HR processes (e.g. talent management, organisational effectiveness, workforce planning, recruitment, performance management, etc).   

• Extensive end-to-end HR Business Partner experience at senior levels, with proven track record of designing and delivering HR interventions that drive business performance and organizational effectiveness. 

• Experience designing and leading large-scale talent, change, culture, and engagement initiatives. 

• Strong capability in using data and insight to inform talent, workforce, and organizational decisions. 

• Demonstrated experience coaching and influencing senior leaders in complex organizations. 

• Commercial acumen and understanding of how people strategies enable growth. 

• Strong leadership presence with the ability to challenge and influence credibly. 

• Expertise across talent, culture, reward, organization effectiveness and coaching. 

• Ability to operate effectively across geographies, cultures, and matrix structures. 

Preferred Skills:

• Partnership with Sales, Commercial, or Customer-facing organizations. 

• Experience working with senior executives (e.g., Head of Innovation, Chief Marketing Officer, etc.) and their organizations. 

• Experience in effectively leading HR initiatives at scale across countries working with central Centers of Expert and country HR Business Partners. 

• Background in multinational, transformation-led environments.

Location: This role is hybrid based in Warren, NJ, requiring a minimum in-office presence of 3 days per week.

The salary range for this role is $229,288 - $315,271 + 30% Target Bonus and LTI.

Benefits

Haleon offers a robust Total Reward package that consists of competitive pay and a comprehensive benefits program.  This includes a generous 401(k) plan, tuition reimbursement and time off programs including 6 months paid parental leave.  On day one, you are eligible for benefits, including our healthcare programs where the company pays for the majority of your medical coverage for you and your family.  We also offer the opportunity to receive a discretionary bonus based on the achievement of key business performance and other incentive/recognition programs as part of the offering.

Job Posting End Date

 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.

Please note that if you are a US Licensed Healthcare Professional or Healthcare Professional as defined by the laws of the state issuing your license, Haleon may be required to capture and report expenses Haleon incurs, on your behalf, in the event you are afforded an interview for employment. This capture of applicable transfers of value is necessary to ensure Haleon’s compliance to all federal and state US Transparency requirements.

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Note to candidates

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