Haleon
HeadofStrategicDeliveryPlanning&Governance
“Head of Strategic Delivery Planning & Governance at Haleon. Skills: Delivery planning, Governance, Portfolio management. Define, own and maintain D&T delivery and governance. Ensure clarity on roles, decision rights, governance forums,”
What You'll Achieve.
Ensure D&T operates with one coherent, integrated delivery and governance model; Ensure D&T operates as a single, controlled system; Enable timely decision-making; Ensure delivery partner performance, risks and dependencies are visible and addressed; Ensure reporting provides clear insight into progress, risks, dependencies, outcomes and required decisions; Enable leadership to understand trade-offs between cost, risk, pace and value; Ensure governance supports delivery pace while maintaining appropriate control
What They're Looking For.
Must Have
Extensive experience in enterprise D&T planning, governance or delivery excellence roles, Proven ownership of delivery and governance frameworks across Agile and Waterfall, Understanding of portfolio management, investment governance and delivery lifecycles, Experience operating in environments with significant third-party delivery dependencies, Experience producing executive-level delivery performance reporting, Executive-level stakeholder engagement and decision-support capability
Nice to Have
Experience in large-scale, complex or regulated organisations, Background in transformation, delivery excellence or enterprise portfolio roles, Commercial and partner governance awareness, Experience operating Run-the-Business governance models
What You'll Do.
own and maintain D&T delivery and governance
Ensure clarity on roles
Ensure governance is proportionate
outcome-focused and enables timely
Ensure delivery frameworks align seamlessly with portfolio management
Ensure consistent lifecycle gating
artefacts and controls from
Support translation of D&T strategy into executable
Design and operate a strategic Run & Maintain
Ensure run initiatives have clear objectives
Challenge investment where operational spend does not demonstrably
Own the governance model for third-party delivery partner
Provide strategic input into delivery partner selection
Ensure delivery partner performance
risks and dependencies are
timely and trusted reporting of delivery
Define standard views
measures and narratives for reporting
Ensure reporting provides clear insight into progress
Act as the custodian of “single version of
Ensure all governed initiatives are explicitly linked to
Drive consistency in how outcomes
Enable leadership to understand trade-offs between cost
Continually assess and improve governance effectiveness
friction and non-value-adding forums
Ensure governance supports delivery pace
maintaining appropriate control
Act as the guardian of governance integrity and
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
Partner with Head of Portfolio & Planning; Work with Procurement; Work with Delivery Excellence; Work with Supplier Performance roles; Report to D&T Leadership Team; Report to ExCo; Report to senior leaders
Communication Scope
Leadership reporting; Executive presentations
Process & Methodology
Agile, Waterfall, Portfolio planning, Delivery execution
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