Graduate Opportunities at Haleon

You’ll take on business-critical roles that offer amazing insights into our organisation and especially working closely with our Supply Chain Analytics Lead. You’ll learn about the synergies and challenges that come with delivering optimum value to the business and the customer. Meanwhile, you’ll have plenty of opportunities to network with senior leaders and graduates along with bespoke training programmes to aid your development.

What will your individual contribution at Haleon be?  

• Gain awareness and understanding of the multiple functions including internal continuous improvement, optimising internal processes as well as supporting all senior supply chain analysts, business unit management and steps involved in an end-to-end supply chain, while learning about the synergies and challenges faced when seeking to deliver optimum value to the business and the customer.
• Be involved in ensuring Haleon Consumer Healthcare makes the right products and delivers them to the right place at the right time.
• Work in and with cross-functional, multi-cultural teams.
• Benefit from a clearly defined network to support you in owning your development.

You’ll be excited by the thought of:

• Being part of a new Consumer Healthcare organisation
• Process improvements through Supply chain studies to determine optimal strategies, resource requirements and cost benefits, simulations and model building to determine the impact of proposed change initiatives on service levels and costs, data analysis to determine key trends which drive inefficient use of resources and cost, investigate internal processes to identify areas of waste and ways of improving, streamlining and automating administrative processes
• Standardising, updating, automating reports, building accurate KPI and activity reports with the aim of measuring resource performance, identifying areas of concern, communicating, and presenting reports
• Learning about the steps in an end-to-end supply chain, as well as the synergies and challenges involved
• Taking part in projects in data analysis, reporting, process mapping, queries, and business support
• Analyse resource data, identify and investigate any irregularities and provide relevant information to stakeholders
• Data Analysis reporting using MS Excel, PowerBi and SQL
• Having 0the chance to deepen your leadership and supply chain technical skills

We’re the people changing the future of everyday health. So you will be someone who has: 

• Creative and problem-solving thinking
• Excellent IT/Computer Science/Data Analytical skills
• Strategic/big-picture thinking
• Entrepreneurial and agile mindset
• Strong prioritisation and analytical skills
• Personal accountability
• Business and consumer/customer knowledge and understanding
• Adaptability and resilience in ambiguity
• A desire to learn and have a meaningful impact
• Continuous Improvement
• An interest in Data Analytics, Business Analytics, IT and Supply Chain
• Microsoft Excel, Modelling and Power BI

To enable you to perform in this future talent opportunity:  

Education required:

• A Degree in International Business/Commerce/Computer Science with a major in Business Analytics, Data Analysis/Management, Information Systems, or International Finance is a must.
• Good academic results are essential, we will not consider anyone below 65%. Please note that you MUST provide your academic transcripts together with your CV when applying or your application will not be reviewed. 
• Honours/master’s degree in related field is a plus

Other requirements:  

• Strong analytical skills, conceptual thinking, and ability to summarize and present complex information into simple models
• Good business understanding and financial acumen
• Excellent planning, organizational and time management skills. Competency in Microsoft applications including Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook
• Passion for technology and innovation
• Self-motivation and willingness to learn
• Creativity, proactiveness and strong interpersonal skills
• Excellent communication, negotiation, and presentation skills
• Experience with PowerBI and/or Tableau Software is a plus

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This will get us beyond “good enough,” to outperform, and thus become one of the best Microbiology Labs on the planet! 

We want you to be part of this exciting opportunity!

Our talented professionals help us deliver billions of healthcare products every year. That takes careful planning, efficient processes, and multifunctional teams. You’ll join us at the heart of the function where you’ll deepen your leadership and technical skills. Through rotations in key areas, you’ll get to grips with a highly complex end-to-end operation.

Over 18 Months, our Graduate Programme will challenge and support you to grow professionally and personally. You’ll have three stretching rotations within the Consumer Healthcare Microbiology Lab and Quality and Compliance department. 

You’ll take on critical roles that offer amazing insights into our quality, compliance, and lab environment. You’ll learn about the synergies and challenges that come with delivering optimum value to the business and the customer. Meanwhile, you’ll have plenty of opportunities to network with senior leaders and graduates along with bespoke training programmes to aid your development.

What will your individual contribution at Haleon be? 

• Gain awareness and understanding of the multiple functions and steps involved in compliance analysis including but not limited to sample tests, identifying microbiological organisms, examinations and reviewing results while learning about the synergies and challenges faced when seeking to deliver optimum reviews, on anomalies, non-compliance, and accuracy.
• Be involved in ensuring Haleon Consumer Healthcare complies with Quality Management Systems and Global Laboratory Practices 
• Comply with environmental, Health and Safety standards and guidelines and Site EHS SOPs 
• Partake in continuous improvement activities to reduce costs, increase productivity, and improve quality and you will benefit from a clearly defined network to support you in owning your development.

You’ll be excited by the thought of: 

• Being part of a new Consumer Healthcare organisation
• Developing your knowledge of Quality, Compliance and Laboratory Environment management on a tailored development program
• Learning about the steps of being a laboratory trainee 
• Taking part in projects and prioritizing tasks
• Helping us make and deliver the right products at the right time through production, operations, and continuous improvement roles
• Working with (and in) cross-functional, multi-cultural teams
• Having a clearly defined network to support your development
• Having the chance to deepen your leadership and Laboratory, Quality and Compliance skills

We’re the people changing the future of everyday health. So you will be someone who has: 

• Creative and problem-solving thinking
• Strategic/big-picture thinking
• Dynamic
• Strong prioritisation and analytical skills
• Personal accountability
• Team Player
• Adaptability and resilience in ambiguity
• A desire to learn and have a meaningful impact

To enable you to perform in this future talent opportunity: 

Education required:

• a Diploma/BSC degree in Microbiology, Biochemistry, or biotechnology-related qualification
• Good academic results are essential, we will not consider anyone below 65%. Please note that you MUST provide your academic transcripts together with your CV when applying or your application will not be reviewed. 
• Qualification in Microbiology or Microbiology modules would be desired but not a requirement 

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About the role

As Talent Acquisition Partner at Haleon, you’ll deliver full lifecycle recruitment, from recruitment initiation through to offer and onboarding. You’ll be accountable for attracting, screening and partnering with Hiring Managers, helping ensure that the hiring decisions Haleon makes are aligned with the organisation’s goals and objectives, fostering diversity and inclusion.

You’ll be passionate about delivering excellence and will be able to analyse recruitment data and metrics, providing valuable insights to stakeholders regarding recruitment performance, market trends, and areas for improvement.

Key responsibilities

• Recruitment Process Management: Oversee the end-to-end recruitment process, including sourcing, screening, interviewing, selection, and offer management. Continuously improve recruitment processes and tools to enhance efficiency and candidate experience.  Delivers end to end hiring including managerial roles. Participates in process improvement initiatives.
• Stakeholder management: Partner with senior leadership, hiring managers, and HR business partners to understand talent requirements, and resourcing needs. Build strong relationships and provide consultation on talent acquisition best practices.
• Participate in employer branding initiatives; writes compelling adverts, engaging LinkedIn posts and uses effective and well-articulated passive outreach messages. Participates in on and off-site careers fairs and other recruitment events.
• Talent Pipeline Development: Build and maintain a strong pipeline of qualified candidates through proactive sourcing strategies, talent networks, referrals, and partnerships with educational institutions and professional associations. We role model Talent Magnet behaviours and we use our skills as expert interviewers to help assess talent effectively for Haleon and for our TA function.
• Data Analysis and Reporting: Utilize recruitment metrics and data analytics to track and evaluate the effectiveness of talent acquisition strategies. Uses ATS effectively to ensure high data reliability.
• Compliance and Diversity: Ensure compliance with relevant employment laws, regulations, and internal policies throughout the talent acquisition process. Promote diversity and inclusion initiatives in recruitment practices.           
• Applies Agile TA methodology, providing the most value where it matters most, purposefully prioritising work based on criticality of the demand, and reflects on ways to improve the application of the methodology.
• Business acumen: Apply in depth knowledge of what makes our business successful and how TA supports our business performance.
• Curiosity, change & growth mindset: Challenges the status quo and uses data to identify where and how we focus our resources and leadership skills to impact change. Has a clear personal vision about our contribution to our environment. Remains curious about our colleagues, customers and consumers.

Qualifications and skills 

Essential

• Full cycle in-house recruiting or Agency experience ideally in consumer goods or related industry.
• Advanced communication and written skills in English.
• Knowledge in Excel and Power Point.
• Strong knowledge of recruitment best practices, market trends and employment laws and regulations.
• Proven track record of sourcing and hiring top talent across multiple functions.
• Experience with recruitment technology, including applicant tracking systems (Workday preferred), LinkedIn Recruiter, regional job boards, and social media platforms.

Preferred

• Working knowledge of Agile TA methodology
• Ability to think strategically and creatively to develop effective recruitment strategies and solutions.
• Ability to work independently and manage multiple priorities and projects simultaneously.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills to effectively partner with business leaders, hiring managers, HR team members, and candidates.