S/4 Architect

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.

The S/4 Architect is a senior Architecture role within Digital & Technology (D&T), accountable for shaping and governing the target architecture of Haleon's SAP S/4 landscape and ensuring the platform delivers maximum business value, simplicity, scalability and operational excellence.

This is a highly visible and key central role in a significant global S/4 implementation.

For an Architect with deep expertise in SAP S/4 and modern SAP technologies, this role bridges enterprise technology and critical business objectives to define, govern and evolve Haleon's next-generation ERP platform.

Haleon will adopt SAP S/4 Private Cloud Edition including Business Data Cloud, Joule AI and supporting SAP and non-SAP cloud technologies. This role will own the architecture vision and target state for the S/4 implementation, ensuring technical designs maximise standard capability, minimise complexity, accelerate value delivery and establish a scalable foundation for future innovation.

The S/4 Architect operates proactively and holistically, guiding enterprise leaders, product managers, product owners and delivery teams through platform design, optimisation, capability expansion and business process transformation. Working closely with Transformation Architecture, Domain Architects and specialist architects across Integration, Security, Data and Analytics, the role drives a coherent ERP architecture anchored on standard SAP capabilities, end-to-end business processes and enterprise outcomes.

You will join a highly capable world-class team under strong and clear leadership and leverage your direct and partner team resources to deliver transformational business outcomes.

You will be shaping and governing the architecture for Haleon's SAP S/4 platform, ensuring that business capabilities, processes, data and technology are delivered through a scalable, integrated and strategically aligned S/4 architectural backbone.

Key Accountabilities

- SAP S/4 architecture strategy and target-state ownership.

- Translation of business strategy into SAP-enabled capabilities, architectures and roadmaps.

- Adoption of SAP best practices and standard functionality.

- Cross-domain alignment and architectural coherence with Domain Architects.

- Reduction of complexity through standardisation and platform convergence.

- End-to-end process and outcome-centric architecture design.

- Governance of SAP architecture standards, principles and design guardrails.

- Executive-level advisory to Enterprise Transformation and business leadership.

- Close collaboration with peer specialist architects in integration, data, security and analytics.

1. SAP S/4 Architecture Ownership

Own and govern the target-state and ongoing SAP S/4 architecture across the enterprise.

Define and maintain architecture principles, reference architectures and design standards for the SAP ecosystem.

Lead architectural decision-making across S/4 Core and adjacent SAP technologies including:

Ensure all solution designs maximise adoption of SAP standard functionality before considering customisation.

Act as the architectural authority for S/4 platform design decisions.

2. Platform Strategy & Roadmap Definition

3. Strategic Platform Simplification & Standardisation

Drive architectural decisions that reduce fragmentation, complexity and technical debt across the SAP ecosystem.

Promote:

Challenge unnecessary customisation and local optimisation that undermine enterprise outcomes.

Ensure platform choices optimise:

4. Architecture Governance & Design Authority

5. S/4 Toolchain & Process Architecture

6. SAP Innovation & Emerging Technology

Provide leadership on the adoption of:

Evaluate emerging SAP capabilities and drive adoption where business value can be demonstrated.

Ensure innovations align with architecture principles and enterprise strategy.

7. Regulatory, Risk & Compliance Architecture

Drive architecture decisions that support continual compliance and auditable operation.

8. Portfolio & Delivery Enablement

9. Architecture Community & Ways of Working

Job Posting End Date

2026-10-17

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.

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Note to candidates

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