HRBL US Commercial

Haleon • Warren Township, NJ

2d • $229,288 - $315,271 • Hybrid

About The Position

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.

Requirements

• 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.

Nice To Haves

• 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.

Responsibilities

• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.

Benefits

• Competitive pay
• Comprehensive benefits program
• Generous 401(k) plan
• Tuition reimbursement
• Time off programs
• 6 months paid parental leave
• Healthcare programs where the company pays for the majority of your medical coverage for you and your family
• Opportunity to receive a discretionary bonus based on the achievement of key business performance
• Other incentive/recognition programs

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior