Domain Architect R&D and QSC

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 QSC & R&D Domain Architect is a senior Enterprise Architecture role within Digital & Technology (D&T), accountable for shaping and governing the end‑to‑end architecture across Quality, Supply Chain and Research & Development domains, while working in close partnership with other Domain Architects to deliver a coherent, simplified enterprise architecture.

Operating at the intersection of science, operations and technology, this role engages closely with senior leaders including Chief Quality Officer, Chief Supply Chain Officer, Head of R&D, Manufacturing and Operations leadership, and works laterally with Commercial, Corporate Functions, ERP and Technology Domain Architects to ensure architectural decisions optimise enterprise‑level outcomes, not just domain performance.

The role designs, governs and evolves architectures that support regulated, safety‑critical and globally distributed operations, ensuring technology investments align to compliance, resilience, innovation velocity and end‑to‑end value streams. A core expectation is the ability to engage, influence and align both senior business leaders and peer Domain Architects, translating complex trade‑offs into clear, enterprise‑aligned decisions.

Role purpose

To define, govern and evolve enterprise‑level architectures for Quality, Supply Chain and R&D, while actively collaborating with other Domain Architects to ensure Haleon’s technology landscape is integrated, simplified, outcome‑driven and aligned to a small number of strategic global platforms.

Key accountabilities

The QSC & R&D Domain Architect is accountable for:

• Enterprise architecture strategy across Quality, Supply Chain and R&D
• Strong engagement with and influence over senior Quality, Supply Chain and R&D leaders
• Active collaboration with other Domain Architects to ensure enterprise coherence
• Translation of regulated and operational strategies into target architectures and roadmaps
• Close alignment with the ERP Domain Architect for SAP‑centric capabilities
• Design of end‑to‑end, cross‑domain process architectures
• Reduction of complexity through platform convergence and standardisation
• Governance of architectural standards, principles and guardrails

Key responsibilities

1. Quality, Supply Chain & R&D Domain Architecture

• Definedomain strategies and target architectures across:
• Quality (QMS, Deviations, CAPA, Change Control, Audits, Complaints)
• Supply Chain (Planning, Manufacturing, Logistics, Traceability, Serialization)
• R&D (Clinical, Formulation, Product Development, Lab Systems, Data Management)
• Architect solutions that enable:
• Regulatory compliance and audit readiness
• Supply chain resilience and end‑to‑end visibility
• Faster, safer product development and innovation
• Full product lifecycle traceability

2. Senior Leadership Engagement & Influence

• Act as a trusted Enterprise Architecture advisor to senior leaders across Quality, Supply Chain and R&D.
• Translate complex architectural topics into clear, executive‑level options, risks and recommendations.
• Shape investment, prioritisation and transformation decisions through credible architectural insight.
• Balance regulatory risk, operational resilience, speed and cost in senior‑level decision forums.

3. Cross‑Domain Collaboration with Other Domain Architects

• Work closely and continuously with other Domain Architects (Commercial, Corporate Functions, ERP, Technology) to:
• Design joined‑up end‑to‑end value streams (e.g. idea‑to‑market, plan‑to‑ship)
• Align architectural decisions across domains to enterprise strategy
• Prevent fragmentation and local optimisation
• Actively participate in Architecture governance forums, contributing domain insight while supporting enterprise‑wide outcomes.
• Resolve cross‑domain architectural tensions through collaboration, not escalation.

4. ERP & SAP Alignment (In Partnership with ERP Domain Architect)

• Work in close partnership with the ERP Domain Architect on SAP‑centric processes including:
• Manufacturing, planning and batch genealogy
• Quality events and compliance integration
• Financial and inventory alignment
• Ensure ERP capabilities align with:
• End‑to‑end business processes
• Regulatory and validation requirements
• Enterprise data and integration standards

5. Strategic Platform Convergence & Simplification

• Drive architectural decisions that reduce tool proliferation across QSC and R&D landscapes.
• Collaborate with other Domain Architects to steer towards:
• Fewer strategic global platforms
• Standardised core capabilities with disciplined extensions
• Challengedomain‑specific solutions that undermine enterprise integrity, scalability or compliance.

6. Regulatory, Quality & Compliance‑by‑Design Architecture

• Ensure architectures embed regulatory and compliance requirements including:
• GxP (GMP, GCP, GLP)
• Data integrity, validation and auditability
• Design quality‑by‑design and compliance‑by‑design architectures that reduce reliance on manual controls.

7. Cross‑Domain Integration & End‑to‑End Product Flows

• Partner with other Domain Architects to govern integration patterns across:
• R&DQuality
• Supply ChainFinance
• Supply ChainCommercial
• Ensure consistent master data, event handling and traceability across domains.
• Enable a single, trusted view of product, quality and supply performance.

8. Data, Analytics & AI‑Enabled Architecture

• Architect data flows to enable:
• Predictive quality and supply risk analytics
• End‑to‑end operational visibility
• Accelerated insight across R&D and manufacturing
• Align analytics architectures with enterprise data platforms and governance.

9. Architecture Governance, Portfolio & Delivery Enablement

• Maintain architectural alignment across programmes, products and platforms.
• Support portfolio modernisation through gap analysis and transition roadmaps.
• Collaborate with delivery teams to ensure architecture enables safe, rapid and scalable change.

10. Architecture Community & Ways of Working

• Actively contribute to and help lead a collaborative Domain Architect community.
• Share best practices across regulated, commercial and corporate domains.
• Position Enterprise Architecture as a trusted internal consultancy that enables enterprise outcomes.

Your profile

Required:

• 8+ years’ experience in Enterprise Architecture, strategy or consulting roles
• Deep experience in regulated environments (Quality, Supply Chain or Life Sciences)
• Proven ability to engage, influence and align senior leaders and peer architects
• Experience architecting:
• Quality management systems
• End‑to‑end supply chain platforms
• R&D and product lifecycle solutions

Preferred

• Experience working closely with multiple Domain Architects and ERP / SAP architects
• Track record of driving enterprise platform convergence
• Exposure to AI and advanced analytics in operational domains
• Experience operating in large, global, regulated organisations

Why Haleon?

None of us should ever feel like we’re standing still. At Haleon, we want you to feel supported, valued, and always progressing. Improving everyday health takes dedication, energy, and effort - so we reward your contribution with a benefits package that includes:

• Contract of employment
• Annual bonus that reflects performance
• Company car or car allowance according to car policy
• LTI Long Term Incentive
• our philosophy to hybrid work
• Private medical package (Medicover) with additional preventive healthcare services for employees and their eligible
• Multisport card or points on the Multicafeteria Benefits account
• Health and wellbeing programmes that take care of you physically and mentally
• Pension plan membership and savings programme (PPE)
• Personalized learning paths and access to diverse development tools to support your professional growth.
• Generali Life insurance
• Supportive community and integration events
• Family benefits (extra parental leave, caregiver’s policy)
• Free car and bike parking
• Remuneration: 26 510 to 36 450 PLN gross/month, depending on the level of experience and competences.

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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.

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