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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Programme Governance Manager - **Company:** Haleon Plc. - **Location:** London, UK - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Encodings, SAP S/4HANA - **Published:** July 18, 2026 - **Apply:** https://uk.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=b91ce2f9c75d8871 ## About the Role * Strong, demonstrated capability in operating complex transformation programme governance frameworks ensuring consistency, discipline and relevance across workstreams and programme phases. * Strong capability in orchestrating governance cadence, agendas, decisions, actions and follow-through. * Comfortable working with Independent Programme Assurance (IPA), audit and risk functions, and translating assurance insight into practical action. * Demonstrated understanding of governance as an enabler of outcomes. * Proven ability to translate complex programme information into clear, decision-focused inputs for governance forums. * Demonstrates confidence in constructively challenging poor escalation quality, understated risks or deferred decisions, while maintaining relationships. * Strong influencing and communication skills across stakeholders, with ability to align differing priorities around a shared governance model. * Communicates confidently, able to adapt style without losing precision or control. ## Description The Enterprise Transformation Programme is a multi-year journey focused on transforming the Haleon business building an organisation that is wired for excellence to be able to deliver our 'Win as One' strategy and drive growth through continuous improvement. The programme aims to strengthen the heartbeat of our business enabling us to become more agile, efficient, and innovative and is enabled through SAP S/4HANA. The Programme Governance Manager plays a critical role in turning this ambition a reality by ensuring the Enterprise Transformation delivery enables the functional ambition and unlocks value at pace. Role Responsibilities The Programme Governance Manager is responsible for operating and maintaining the programme's governance framework, ensuring the programme's choices are managed with discipline, transparency and pace. The role orchestrates governance forums, readiness checkpoints, and assurance interactions working in close partnership with the Programme Governance Lead and PMO to ensure governance enables confident decision-making and protection of delivery outcomes. Programme Governance Framework Operation & Embedding * Operate the programme's governance framework, ensuring it is consistently applied across all workstreams, phases, and forums. * Translate governance principles, roles, and decision rights into practical ways of working that teams follow. * Keep governance artefacts, calendars and cadence aligned as the programme scales and evolves. * Maintain governance artefacts and documentation to a standard suitable for Independent Programme Assurance (IPA), Internal Audit or External Audit scrutiny. Governance Cadence and Forum Management * Manage the end-to-end governance cadence (e.g. SteerCo, programme leadership forums, readiness checkpoints). * Ensure papers, pre-reads and agendas are decision-ready, proportionate and focused on material risks and choices. * Track decisions, actions, and escalations ensuring follow through and closure. * Partner with the Transformation Office portfolio team collaborating effectively to support enterprise transformation governance requirements. * Ensure escalations are well-structured, evidence-based and decision-oriented, not issue-driven or reactive. * Coordinate the agreed IPA assurance activity plan in line with programme phase and stage-gate timing. Stakeholder Engagement * Act as a trusted advisor to programme and workstream leaders, partnering with them to frame complex delivery, risk and assurance topics into clear decision narratives. * Act as a key day-to-day contact for Independent Programme Assurance, audit and risk functions, supporting evidence provision and tracking actions to closure. * Communicate effectively, adapting messaging for different audiences to ensure clarity and engagement in the programme objectives. * Engage effectively with a wide range of stakeholders with differing priorities and risk appetites. Governance Maturity & Continuous Improvement * Support the embedding of a culture of transparency, early escalation, and decision discipline across programme workstreams. * Use IPA insights as well as observations to identify governance inefficiencies or gaps and continuously uplift governance maturity as the programme scales between phases. * Work closely with workstream leads to uplift governance maturity, providing guidance and constructive challenge. * Maintain clear line of sight for Programme Leads to ensure no assurance actions "age out" without resolution. * Partner with the Programme Governance Lead to determine which IPA findings require executive attention and which can be resolved within management control. * Listen proactively to stakeholder feedback, identifying themes and refining governance ways of working to maintain relevance, efficiency, and buy-in across programme phases., 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. 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