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 leader will be responsible for high-quality, consistent HR interventions across key people priorities, including Talent Acquisition, Talent Management, Performance Management, Learning & Organization Development, Reward Management, Employee Relations, and HR Operations, enabling leaders, managers and employees to deliver maximum value to the business.

We are seeking an experienced HR Business Partner to support the Sales & Expert division. The role will partner closely with Commercial leadership to align people priorities with business growth and strategic objectives, while ensuring HR delivery remains effective, compliant, and of consistently high quality.

Role Responsibilities

• Partner with Operating Unit HR and Commercial leadership to understand business priorities and translate them into fit-for-purpose HR strategies aligned to Sales & Expert objectives.

• Lead strategic workforce and manpower planning to ensure the right structure, capacity, and capabilities for current and future business needs.

• Partner with stakeholders on recruitment, talent pipeline, and diversity priorities to support accelerated growth and critical capability requirements.

• Drive talent management, succession planning, and capability-building interventions, including identification of critical roles and development actions for key talent.

• Coach and advise leaders and managers on people decisions, employee development, policies, processes, and effective ways of working.

• Manage complex people matters and escalations from managers, employees, and Service Hubs, ensuring fair, consistent, and compliant outcomes.

• Review sales policies, incentive frameworks, related processes, and rewards and recognition programs to benchmark and implement relevant best practices.

• Apply strategic reward and employee value proposition solutions to attract, engage, and retain critical talent across the Commercial organization.

• Enable leaders and managers to strengthen employee experience, engagement, and communication across teams, keeping employees informed on business direction and priorities.

• Work with Country HR Operations, Reward leads, and relevant stakeholders to improve HR service delivery, manage people risks, and drive standardization, simplification, and continuous improvement.

• Lead and inspire a team of Regional HRBPs – set clear direction to deliver against shared priorities and strengthen engagement and performance across the team.

Preferred Qualifications

• Excellent clarity and  judgement to define a clear and compelling vision and strategy for the function and the organisation.

• Ability to collaborate effectively across seniority and stakeholder groups.

• Proven experience in creating and facilitating a healthy, engaged, and inclusive working environment that is sustainable over time.

• Experience in leading talent and capability initiatives

• Prior experience supporting customer-facing teams or a sales population.

Why you?

Basic Qualifications:

·       Bachelor’s degree or equivalent qualification from a reputed university; MBA from a Tier 1 institute preferred.

·       Minimum 15 years of relevant post-qualification experience, preferably with present/past experience in a FMCG industry. Minimum 6-8 years in business partnering.

·       Exposure to industrial relations and employee relations management will be a distinct advantage.

·       Strong understanding of organizational behaviour, related theories, and practical application in a business context.

·       Sound knowledge of labour legislation and its practical applicability to the role.

·       Knowledge of contemporary people and organization development tools, frameworks, and practices.

·       Broad HR functional experience across talent management, compensation and benefits, learning, and organization development.

·       Experience in change management and transformation, with the ability to take initiative, influence stakeholders, and lead change effectively.

·       Strong analytical orientation, with the ability to interpret data, derive insights, and apply a statistical lens to business and people challenges.

Location – this role is based in: Gurgaon

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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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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.