The posting
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.
Job purpose: The Lead Packaging Industrial Designer is responsible for establishing and advancing 3D Structural Design as a strategic growth capability, translating consumer needs, brand ambition and innovation opportunities into distinctive and meaningful product and packaging experiences.
The role sets the vision and standards for packaging industrial design excellence and leads the development of consumer-centric design solutions from early concept through delivery, working in close partnership with Marketing, Creative, R&D, Packaging, Engineering, Insights and external design partners.
The Lead Packaging Industrial Designer will ensure that creative ambition, consumer desirability, brand distinctiveness, technical feasibility, sustainability and commercial considerations are integrated from the outset, enabling Haleon to create experiences that consumers recognize, prefer and trust.
Key responsibilities:
Design Strategy & Innovation Steward
- Translate consumer, category and brand strategies into clear design opportunities and compelling 3D Packaging Industrial Design.
- Bring Industrial Design and prototyping upstream into the packaging innovation process, ensuring consumer desirability and experience are considered from the earliest stages of development.
- Identify emerging consumer, cultural, design and technology trends and translate them into relevant opportunities for Haleon.
- Champion experimentation and new approaches that elevate design quality and create differentiated consumer experiences.
Consumer-Centric Design & Creative Excellence
- Lead the development of distinctive product and packaging Industrial Design solutions that combine consumer insight, brand expression, functionality and experience.
- Establish and continuously raise standards for design quality, ensuring consistency and excellence across global brands and markets.
- Apply human-centered design principles to translate consumer needs, behaviors and pain points into intuitive and desirable solutions.
- Ensure industrial design concepts deliver against the intended consumer experience while maintaining the integrity of brand strategy and positioning.
- Lead industrial design reviews and provide clear creative direction and judgement at critical stages of development.
Design Development & Technical Partnership
- Partner closely with the Creative, Lead Packaging Design Engineer and Package Developers to translate design intent into technically feasible, manufacturable and scalable solutions.
- Ensure Design and Engineering collaborate from concept development through technical feasibility, prototyping and industrialization.
- Balance consumer desirability and creative ambition with functionality, sustainability, cost and manufacturing requirements.
- Lead prototype development and evaluation, ensuring that design intent and critical consumer experience attributes are maintained throughout development.
- Build organizational understanding of packaging structural design and strengthen design thinking capability across relevant teams.
External Design Ecosystem
- Maintain strong awareness of emerging design technologies, methodologies and industry best practices.
Cross-functional Leadership & Influence
- Partner with the Lead Packaging Design Engineer to ensure form and function go hand in hand.
- Build effective relationships across Creative and Marketing
Qualifications and skills
Education / Certification
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Industrial Design, Product Design or a related discipline. (Equivalent relevant professional experience may also be considered).
Direct Experience
- Significant experience in Packaging Industrial Design roles within global consumer-facing organizations, ideally Consumer Health, FMCG, Beauty, Personal Care or adjacent industries.
- Full Proficiency in 3D CAD (Solidworks) and 3D Printing Demonstrated ability to operate successfully within complex global and matrix organizations.
- Experience partnering with Marketing, Creative, Insights, R&D, Packaging, Engineering.
Leadership & Design Competencies
- Exceptional Industrial Design judgement and ability to recognize and articulate what constitutes outstanding consumer-centric design.
- Deep understanding of human-centered design, design thinking and consumer experience.
Job Posting End Date
2026-11-30
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.
