• Job Description

  Req#: 511934

  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, Panadol, Advil, Voltaren, Theraflu, Otrivin, 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.

  CEE Innovation Manager Respiratory and OHC

  The CEE Innovation Manager Respiratory owns the delivery of the respiratory incl. Parasinus and OHC Category portfolio Innovation pipelines necessary for CEE to achieve performance and growth goals. The role is accountable for building innovation platforms that extend across brands in respiratory incl. Parasinus and OHC Category to drive brands growth in the 1-5 year timeframe and beyond.

  Along with the broader Haleon team, you will own the quantity and quality of the pipeline, help to define project prioritization within the team, and influence cross-functional alignment to ensure timely progression and launch of innovations. You must have strong executive presence, ability to deliver strategic recommendations, high change agility and resilience, a high bias for action, and urgency and a strong sense of risk management.

  In this role you will..

  • Build category innovation strategies and platforms (aligned to Category/ Brand Long-Term Strategies) based on deep consumer understanding (consumer intimacy)
  • Helps to ensure robust 1-5 year Brand pipelines for all channels (incl eComm) with sufficient and supportable cadence
  • Drives Ideation projects (Ideation Sprints) in CEE to deliver breakthrough innovation ideas
  • Constantly looks for inspiration externally and internally to drive new thinking and new ideas on product and technology innovations (global Geo- respiratory, Contractor Enabled Innovations)
  • Successfully influences various stakeholders to ensure buy-in to recommended strategies and plans
  • Successfully co-operates and influences global Category Teams to influence global innovation pipeline development, in line with CEE consumer and customer needs
  • Ideate and lead innovation projects through stage gates as PAL (Project Accountable Leader), in accordance with the Haleon Innovation Model. Ideation includes concept development, research, and consumer validation
  • Ensure quality of pipeline via creation and evaluation of project business cases with strong desirability/viability/feasibility/sustainability profiles. Strongly co-operates with LOC to define properly
  • Lead Category innovation transformation initiatives to drive faster speed-to-market
  • Represent Category pipelines and projects internally (e.g. governance and leadership meeting)
  • Ability to manage multiple stakeholders in a highly matrixed and interdependent environment
  • The individual in this role will have support from others on the team depending on the project(s)

  Why you?

  Qualifications & Skills:

  • Bachelor’s degree
  • 8+ years marketing, brand management or innovation experience.
  • End to end innovation experience - from early on ideation to commercialization for simple & complex innovation (experience here can come through a combination of multiple roles)
  • Experience setting innovation strategies, creating and executing platforms, managing end-to-end development, and launching new product introductions in market.
  • Experience with leadership of multi-faceted market research and ideas validations
  • Exceptional leadership skills, including ability to lead and influence up, down and over with a matrixed organization (large, diverse teams, peer groups, senior stakeholders)
  • Experience in managing/overseeing multi-brand platforms
  • Positive, can-do mindset, with the ability to motivate a cross-functional team
  • Strong executive presence – can communicate effectively, manage multiple stakeholders and drive to decisions

  Preferred Qualifications & Skills:

  • MBA
  • Significant experience in Analytics and Facility with P&Ls including ability to build business cases
  • Excellent storytelling capabilities with high level communication skills (written and verbal)
  • Strong strategic skills, including ability to analyze, identify opportunities, and build fact-based cases for investment
  • Entrepreneurial experience
  • Ability to adapt and work effectively within a variety of situations including organizational changes and changes in job demands
  • Comfortable challenging status-quo. Proactive in identifying, leading and implementing change initiatives.

  Opportunities for growth

  None of us should ever feel like we are standing still. Instead, we want Haleon to be a place where we feel like we are always progressing.

  Improving everyday health takes dedication. Energy. Effort. So we look to reward your contribution with a benefits package based on Haleon policy as per country.

  Why Join Us?

  The future of everyday health is changing. And we’re the people changing it. In front of us is an incredible opportunity to go beyond what any of us have done before. And make everyday health more achievable, more inclusive and more sustainable. For more and more people. So join us, as we build one of the world’s leading consumer healthcare companies. Join us to innovate our category-leading brands. To better understand people’s everyday health needs. To tackle the biggest barriers that stand in their way. To change individual and societal behavior. Join us to work with colleagues who share your restless energy. To explore your interests. To stretch yourself to do the best work of your career. And join us, as together we build a working experience that encourages us all to lead happier, healthier, more productive lives. The way we see it, every day is an opportunity for better. And we’re going all in to realize it.

  #Li-Hybrid

  Care to join us. Find out what life at Haleon is really like www.haleon.com/careers/
  
  At Haleon we embrace our diverse workforce by creating an inclusive environment that celebrates our unique perspectives, generates curiosity to create unmatched understanding of each other, and promotes fair and equitable outcomes for everyone. We're striving to create a climate where we celebrate our diversity in all forms by treating each other with respect, listening to different viewpoints, supporting our communities, and creating a workplace where your authentic self belongs and thrives. We believe in an agile working culture for all our roles. If flexibility is important to you, we encourage you to explore with our hiring team what the opportunities are.
  
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• About the company

  Haleon plc is a British multinational consumer healthcare company with headquarters in Weybridge, Surrey.

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