About the Role
This senior leadership role is responsible for shaping and delivering commercial trade strategies to drive sustainable growth across ANZ. You will lead a high-performing team and collaborate cross-functionally to integrate category insights, customer priorities, and brand ambitions into impactful commercial plans.
Responsibilities
- Lead the Commercial Strategy team to develop and execute commercial trade strategies across the ANZ business.
- Drive the annual planning process, integrating brand, sales, and revenue management initiatives into actionable commercial plans.
- Develop channel and customer Go-to-Market strategies across all 4Ps and innovation launches.
- Identify category growth opportunities and shape the innovation agenda.
- Lead the delivery of Brand Commercial Plans and store execution playbooks.
- Track performance against targets and drive interventions to improve execution and competitiveness.
- Partner cross-functionally to deliver clear commercial diagnostics and growth initiatives.
- Develop long-term category strategies aligned to customer and business priorities.
- Support Joint Business Planning, category reviews, NPD launches, and range recommendations.
- Deliver compelling category growth stories to external customers.
- Lead, coach, and develop a team of 8 direct reports.
- Build a high-performing, customer-centric culture focused on growth and execution excellence.
- Drive capability development, prioritisation, and team effectiveness across the function.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Business, Marketing, or related field.
- 12+ years’ experience across sales, commercial strategy, brand management, or related commercial roles.
- Strong senior sales leadership experience with proven cross-functional capability.
- Demonstrated success developing and executing commercial growth strategies within FMCG.
- Experience managing pharmacy accounts.
- Strong analytical, stakeholder management, and influencing skills.
- Commercially astute, strategic, and execution-focused leader with a track record of building high-performing teams.
Location
- Brisbane
- Sydney
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Senior leadership
- 12+ years experience
Education Level
- Bachelor's degree
About the Company
- Opella is the self-care challenger with the purest and third-largest portfolio in the global OTC and Vitamins, Minerals & Supplements market.
- Our mission is to bring health in people’s hands by making self-care as simple as it should be — for half a billion consumers worldwide and counting.
- With 100 loved brands, 11,000 employees, 13 manufacturing sites and 4 science and innovation centres, Opella is home to globally recognised brands including Allegra, Buscopan, Dulcolax and Mucosolvan.
- As a certified B Corp, we are committed to creating healthier people and a healthier planet.
- Opella is the self-care challenger with the purest and third-largest portfolio in the Over-The-Counter (OTC) & Vitamins, Minerals & Supplements (VMS) market globally.
- At the core of this mission is our 100 loved brands, our 11,000-strong global team, our 13 best-in-class manufacturing sites and 4 specialized science and innovation development centers.
- Headquartered in France, Opella is the proud maker of many of the world’s most loved brands, including Allegra, Buscopan, Doliprane, Dulcolax, Enterogermina, Essentiale and Mucosolvan.
- B Corp certified in multiple markets, we are active players in the journey towards healthier people and planet.
