Principal Legal Counsel, Quality, Regulatory & Manufacturing

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

Haleon operates in a highly regulated global environment where manufacturing quality, product safety, and regulatory compliance are critical to consumer trust and business continuity. As regulatory expectations continue to evolve—particularly around ingredients, manufacturing systems, and oversight of suppliers and third‑party manufacturers—the business faces increasing complexity and risk.

To support Haleon’s growth strategy and manage these risks, the Principal Legal Counsel, Quality, Regulatory & Manufacturing provides deep expertise in quality, regulatory, and good manufacturing practices, partnering closely with the QSC function. Regulators are applying more rigorous and nuanced requirements across global supply chains and advanced product portfolios, and ambiguity in inspection and enforcement expectations creates material enforcement and reputational risk.

The Principal Legal Counsel, Quality, Regulatory & Manufacturing delivers senior level legal counsel in key markets while providing strategic oversight to enable consistent, defensible decision making across manufacturing sites and regions. This role serves as a senior specialist advisor, offering strategic guidance during inspections and regulatory interactions and advising on product safety and ingredient risk, including emerging restrictions on ingredients, contaminants, and chemical classes. This includes counsel on ingredient bans, global and local risk assessments, mitigation strategies, and product safety governance decisions that directly impact formulation, market access, and supply continuity. This expertise is critical to:

• Protecting Haleon’s licence to operate

• Maintaining regulatory credibility

• Reducing reliance on external legal counsel

• Enabling confident, timely decision making across manufacturing sites and region

Key Responsibilities:

• Strategic legal partner to the QSCP function in the areas of quality, compliance, regulatory, and manufacturing.

• Collaborate with senior QSCP leaders globally and regional operating units legal leads to enable project and deal outcomes aligned with strategic priorities, support company goals, comply with legal requirements, and adequately mitigate risk.

• Key Legal Lead across - global quality compliance, recall procedures, manufacturing and regulatory best practices, and delivering strategy to deliver our ESG/environmental-related manufacturing goals

• Key legal partner on ingredient-related regulatory risk, including global and local ingredient bans and restrictions, contaminants and impurities risk mitigation and strategy, and emerging chemical regulatory regimes, ensuring legally defensible, science based decision making across product portfolios. 

• Regulatory Compliance: Provide legal advice on healthcare-specific regulations affecting manufacturing and distribution, including FDA and EU regulations, U.S. state licensing requirements, other and supply chain requirements.

• Serve as senior legal advisor to cross-functional product risk and safety governance forums, providing legal judgment on escalation, risk acceptance, market action, and remediation decisions for product safety and compliance issues. 

Why you? 

Basic Qualifications:

• Juris Doctor (JD) or equivalent law degree with admission to practice law in at least one relevant jurisdiction.

• 10+ years experience providing legal counsel in highly regulated manufacturing environments, with a strong focus on quality, product safety, and regulatory compliance.

• Prior experience working as in-house counsel in a matrixed organization.

• Demonstrated knowledge