Haleon

Consumer Health

DirectorHCMDevOps

Bangalore, India FULL TIME Remote Friendly
Market Sentiment
HIGH DEMAND

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The Brief

“Director HCM DevOps at Haleon. Skills: DevOps operating model, Release management, Incident management, Operational risk. Own and continuously evolve the HCM DevOps operating model. Ensure platform stability, availability, and performance”

Industry & Context.

Consumer Health

What They're Looking For.

Must Have

Senior leader with over 15 years of experience owning DevOps or platform operations in largescale, regulated enterprise environments, Experience working with multiple HCM suite of products (Workday and others), Proven accountability for release management, incident management, and operational controls in HR or payroll adjacent systems, understanding of operational risk, compliance, and audit expectations in people systems, Experience leading hybrid models involving internal teams and external operations partners

Nice to Have

Ability to clearly articulate operational risk and trade-offs to senior HR and business leaders, people leadership and partner management capability, Calm, structured decision-making in high impact situations, Continuous improvement mindset with a focus on simplification and resilience

What You'll Do.

Own and continuously evolve the HCM DevOps operating model

Ensure platform stability

and deployment management

Act as the senior authority for incident

and service management

Ensure compliance-by-design across operations

Partner with Product and Architecture to balance speed of change with risk

Provide leadership ready reporting on operational health

Ensure solutions comply with enterprise architecture guardrails

Maintain architectural artefacts in enterprise repositories

Translate complex architectural topics into clear

business relevant narratives

Influence delivery partners to build simpler

more sustainable solutions

How You'll Work.

Team & Collaboration

Partner closely with Product, Architecture, Security, and external operations partners; Collaborate with HR Product Owners, Business Partners, Enterprise Architecture, Data, Security, and external vendors

Communication Scope

Translate complex architectural topics into clear, business relevant narratives

Full Job Description

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 Director of HCM DevOps sits within the Corporate Functions D&T organisation and owns the **DevOps operating model** across HCM platforms (e.g., Workday, and adjacent services), acting as the **single point of accountability for run, release, and operational risk**. The Director partners closely with Product, Architecture, Security, and external operations partners to ensure the HCM ecosystem supports transformation without disruption to the business. The role reports to the Head of HR Systems & Products. This role is critical in environments where **regulatory compliance, payroll accuracy, security controls, and data integrity are non-negotiable** , and where biannual/quarterly platform releases are a structural reality rather than an exception. **Role Responsibilities** * Own and continuously evolve the HCM DevOps operating model, clearly defining accountabilities across internal teams and external operations partners * Ensure platform stability, availability, and performance across all HCM products, including proactive monitoring and preventative controls * Govern release

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