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.

Key Responsibilities

In this role, you will:

Help implement the European evidence strategy across OTC, Wellness and Oral Health programmes, translating category and innovation priorities into clear evidence roadmaps. These may include clinical, real-world evidence and hybrid approaches.

Lead the continued development of medical governance in Europe, aligned with Haleon procedures, scientific engagement requirements and relevant regulatory expectations.

Provide scientific and governance oversight for evidence generation, human-subject research, ethics alignment, medical education and non-promotional scientific exchange.

Establish clear quality expectations for protocols, governed scientific activities and decision records, working closely with the relevant technical and functional owners.

Create and maintain practical governance resources, including probability-of-success documents, product governance records, clinical submission dossier examples, templates, mitigation approaches and decision records.

Help teams identify the appropriate review, documentation and escalation route early, reducing uncertainty and avoidable rework.

Partner with Category and Cluster Medical Leads across Europe to identify scientific, governance, benefit-risk, claims and engagement risks, and develop practical options for managing them.

Lead audit-readiness activities, support issue escalation and turn recurring issues, audit observations and risk patterns into improvements in how teams work.

Explore digital and AI-supported methods that can improve access to knowledge, review efficiency and decision support, while maintaining accountable scientific oversight.

Demonstrate the business value of effective governance through earlier risk management, clearer processes, stronger decisions and more reliable reviews, contributing relevant evidence to the Europe Medical & Scientific Affairs impact dashboard.

Qualifications and Skills

Essentials

You will bring substantial experience within Medical or Scientific Affairs, together with experience in areas such as compliance, scientific quality or research governance. This experience may come from consumer health, OTC, FMCG healthcare or the pharmaceutical sector.
You understand the scientific governance and compliance expectations associated with external expert engagement, medical education and human-subject research. You are also comfortable advising on complex or high-risk situations where the right route forward may not immediately be clear.
The role requires someone who can apply scientific rigour alongside practical judgement. You should be able to simplify uncertainty, constructively challenge established approaches and help teams protect quality and reputation while continuing to make progress.
Because the position operates across a matrix organisation, you will need the ability to lead change, influence senior colleagues and build effective working relationships across scientific, technical and commercial functions.

Nice to Have

The following experience would help you make an impact in the role, but you do not need to bring every element:

A BSc-level degree, or an equivalent qualification, in biomedical sciences, medicine, dentistry or a related scientific discipline.

Experience supporting OTC, Wellness, vitamins, minerals and supplements, or Oral Health portfolios, including collaboration with brand or category teams.

Knowledge of evidence planning, interpretation and application to claims substantiation and scientific communication within EU, UK or comparable regulatory environments.

Experience leading cross-functional initiatives and translating scientific information into practical recommendations.

Familiarity with related R&D areas, such as product development, Regulatory Affairs or consumer insight.

Experience using evidence approaches such as real-world evidence, randomised controlled trials, patient or consumer insight, digital evidence sources or pragmatic study designs.

The ability to turn complex evidence and data into clear messages for different internal and external audiences.

Additional experience within Regulatory Affairs.

Help implement the European evidence strategy across OTC, Wellness and Oral Health programmes, translating category and innovation priorities into clear evidence roadmaps. These may include clinical, real-world evidence and hybrid approaches.

Lead the continued development of medical governance in Europe, aligned with Haleon procedures, scientific engagement requirements and relevant regulatory expectations.

Provide scientific and governance oversight for evidence generation, human-subject research, ethics alignment, medical education and non-promotional scientific exchange.

Establish clear quality expectations for protocols, governed scientific activities and decision records, working closely with the relevant technical and functional owners.

Create and maintain practical governance resources, including probability-of-success documents, product governance records, clinical submission dossier examples, templates, mitigation approaches and decision records.

Help teams identify the appropriate review, documentation and escalation route early, reducing uncertainty and avoidable rework.

Partner with Category and Cluster Medical Leads across Europe to identify scientific, governance, benefit-risk, claims and engagement risks, and develop practical options for managing them.

Lead audit-readiness activities, support issue escalation and turn recurring issues, audit observations and risk patterns into improvements in how teams work.

Explore digital and AI-supported methods that can improve access to knowledge, review efficiency and decision support, while maintaining accountable scientific oversight.

Demonstrate the business value of effective governance through earlier risk management, clearer processes, stronger decisions and more reliable reviews, contributing relevant evidence to the Europe Medical & Scientific Affairs impact dashboard.

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
Hybrid@Haleon our philosophy to hybrid work (2 days onsite per week)
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

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PLN 236 496,00 - PLN 325 182,00

The salary range for this position is indicative and provided as a guide. The final offer may vary depending on factors including relevant experience, skills, qualifications, and internal equity considerations. Further details regarding the total reward and benefits package will be shared during the recruitment process. Salary ranges may vary by location in line with local market conditions and applicable pay transparency regulations.

Compensation information is shared for the primary location of this role. Where the position is advertised with additional locations the compensation range will be discussed during the recruiting process.

Job Posting End Date

2026-11-07

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.

The personal information you provide will be kept confidential, used only for legitimate business purposes, and will never be used in making any employment decisions, including hiring decisions.

Adjustment or Accommodations Request

If you require a reasonable adjustment or accommodation or other assistance to apply for a job at Haleon at any stage of the application process, please let your recruiter know by providing them with a description of specific adjustments you are requesting. We’ll provide all reasonable adjustments to support you throughout the recruitment process and treat all information you provide us in confidence.

Note to candidates

The Haleon recruitment team will contact you using a Haleon email account (@haleon.com). If you are not sure whether the email you received is from Haleon, please get in touch.

Who are we?

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.

Medical and Scientific Governance Senior Scientist