Andrea Picton
HR Business Lead @Haleon
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WORK HISTORY
HR Business Lead @Haleon
London, GB
As HR Business Lead for Haleon’s Legal, Compliance and Company Secretariat (LCCS), I partner with business leaders to drive organisational effectiveness and enable high performance. This includes shaping culture, structure, and talent strategies that align with the business’s purpose and goals.I lead initiatives across:• Organisational Effectiveness: Driving change that enhances culture, systems, and capability; designing structures and roles that enable strategic delivery and meaningful careers.• Leadership Development: Coaching and challenging leaders to build capability, strengthen team performance, and foster inclusion, wellbeing, and cultural transformation.• Talent Management: Creating and executing talent strategies that develop future capability, strengthen diversity, and build a robust leadership pipeline.• Performance & Culture: Embedding engagement and belonging through high-performance and inclusive culture initiatives, and overseeing employee relations with local insight.• Reward: Partnering with Reward and business leaders to deliver fair, competitive, and sustainable total reward solutions that attract and retain diverse talent.In all, my focus is on enabling Haleon to deliver better everyday health with humanity through people, performance, and purposeful leadership.
EDUCATION
Keele University
BA Hons, International Politics & American Studies
King Edward VI Camp Hill School
General Studies, Economics and Business Studies, English Literature and Religious Studies
University of Maryland
BA Honours, International Politics & American Studies
London South Bank University
MSc and CIPD, Human Resource Management
SKILLS
ABOUT ANDREA PICTON
Chartered CIPD-qualified Global HR Leader and Charity Trustee with 17+ years’ experience shaping people strategies across EMEA, APAC, and North America for high-growth organisations, complex global matrixes, and iconic brands including Haleon, Gartner, EY, BT, ITV, and Chelsea FC. Trusted advisor to C-Suite, Partners, and senior commercial leaders, with deep expertise in organisational design, workforce planning, leadership enablement, culture transformation, DEI, and employee engagement. Skilled at navigating global complexity and ambiguity, and at embedding people-first strategies that drive commercial growth, strengthen culture, and build inclusive, high-performing teams.Combines commercial acumen, boardroom credibility, and high EQ to deliver pragmatic, data-driven solutions balancing business performance with employee experience. Recognised for building and leading high-performing HR teams and designing scalable, multi-region programmes that enable succession and sustainable growth, and prepare organisations for the future of work through digital HR, people analytics, and inclusive leadership.Key Achievements- Increased employee intent to stay by 43% in just six months through targeted engagement and career framework initiatives- Delivered £161k in first-year cost savings through HR technology optimisation and process redesign- Maintained a 0% ER appeal rate across complex multi-country operations- Led global talent acquisition and probation frameworks, performance management programmes, and organisational transformations impacting thousands of employees worldwide.Core Expertise: Strategic HR leadership | Business partnering | Organisational change & transformation | Workforce & succession planning | Leadership development | Employee engagement | Reward & performance management | Complex ER & employment law | Stakeholder influence | Commercial & data-driven HR | Culture & DEI | Internal Communication.I thrive on partnering with leaders to shape people strategies that not only enable business growth but also foster inclusive, high-performing cultures. If you want to discuss innovative HR solutions or global talent transformation, I’m always open to connecting.
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