Hello. We’re Haleon. A new world-leading consumer health company. Shaped by all who join us. Together, we’re improving everyday health for billions of people. By growing and innovating our global portfolio of category-leading brands – including Sensodyne, EmergenC, Advil, Voltaren, Theraflu, Tums, and Centrum – through a unique combination of deep human understanding and trusted science. What’s more, we’re achieving it in a company that we’re in control of. In an environment that we’re co-creating. And a culture that’s uniquely ours. Care to join us. It isn’t a question.

The US Innovation Senior Director owns the delivery of OTC (Cough/Cold/Flu and Pain) innovation pipelines necessary for the US BU to achieve sales, growth, and profit goals. Works side-by-side with US Marketing team, with influence from Global OTC teams, to build US innovation strategies and projects complementary to global and local strategic focus areas. This role requires a balance of long-term strategic vision to identify new innovation growth spaces as well as operational agility to ensure on-time progression of projects to meet approved business cases. While specifically responsible for innovation, this leader is expected to operate with an enterprise perspective to advance pipelines that contribute to Category, BU, and Haleon goals (e.g. sustainability, margin enhancement, channel growth, etc). As a member of the Innovation Leadership Team, this individual will co-own Innovation team culture and capabilities and must be a role model of winning behaviors including cross-functional collaboration, an adaptive leadership style, high change agility and resilience, a curious and continuous improvement mindset, and a strong bias for action.

This role will provide YOU the opportunity to lead key activities to progress YOUR career.  These responsibilities include some of the following:

• Developing a deep understanding of the consumer, category, and competitive players to inform strategic and project recommendations

• Creation of category and brand innovation strategies, innovation platforms, and pipeline projects aligned to local and global strategies

• Delivery of a sufficient pipeline of high-quality, penetration-driving innovation that meets the financial, household penetration, and sustainability objectives of Haleon

• Development and execution of 1-4-year brand pipelines for all channels (eComm, Club, Value, FDM), to ensure a robust pipeline with supportable cadence

• Manage team resourcing. Allocate and assign platform and project responsibilities across team. Identify single Point of Contact individuals to align to Brand.

• Ideate and lead significant innovation platforms and projects through stage gates as PAL (Project Accountable Leader), in accordance with the Haleon Innovation Model

• Build and assess innovation project business cases with strong desirability/ viability/ feasibility/ sustainability profiles

• Manage, coach, and develop direct reports to build a strong bench of skilled innovators

• Lead Innovation function and OTC (Cough/Cold/Flu and Pain) process transformation initiatives to simplify and speed up. Develop, pilot, and operationalize new repeatable innovation approaches, in alignment with key stakeholders

• Represent category pipelines and projects internally (e.g. governance and leadership meetings) and externally (e.g. customer engagements)

• Lead select key initiatives for total US Innovation team. Examples include I&D, sustainability, Learning and Development, Talent Development

POSTING CLOSING DATE – AUGUST 24th

Why you?

Basic Qualifications:

We are looking for professionals with these required skills to achieve our goals:

• Bachelors degree

• 10+ years marketing, brand management, or innovation experience

• Strong strategic thinking – ability to identify smart “Where to Play” choices, focused “How to Win” platforms and package into an aligned-to strategy with a multiyear, cadenced, risk-mitigated pipeline

• Direct experience moving projects through stage gates and preparing innovation “bundles” (concept, claims, formula, pricing, business case) for launch

• Ability to think both high and deep – connect the dots on trends while also agility with the details - able to source, synthesize, and leverage data to make fact-based recommendations

• Excellent storytelling and communication skills. Ability to inspire enthusiasm and alignment with internal and exte