About the Role
Drives the integration of commercial excellence into category strategies, ensuring customer and shopper centricity, effective sales planning, and capabilities to deliver sustainable category growth through commercial initiatives.
Responsibilities
- Support the Global Category Comex Director in defining the commercial element of the category strategy.
- Champion the 'Voice of the Customer' within the category, embedding customer-centric insights into Category strategies and initiatives.
- Input category-specific strategies into ComEx-wide priorities & guidance, reflecting category growth plans onto ComEx blueprints in the omnichannel environment.
- Coordinate with Global Category ComEx Directors to drive the definition and approval of global commercial planning frameworks, metrics, and guidance.
- Create and manage Retailer facing content supporting Sales and ComEx teams.
- Collaborate with OUs & Markets and Global teams to ensure effective implementation of commercial planning frameworks, tooling and alignment with category strategies.
Requirements
- Proven experience in commercial excellence and category management, within a large consumer health or FMCG organisation.
- Demonstrated ability to champion the 'Voice of the Customer' and embed customer-centric insights into commercial strategies and planning.
- Experience in defining, approving, and delivering commercial inputs into enterprise-wide planning cadences (e.g., ABP) and category-specific forums.
- Strong collaborative leadership skills, with experience coordinating across global teams and other functional leaders to define and implement strategic frameworks.
- Experience within the Oral Health category or a closely related health and consumer goods sector.
- Experience across different market archetypes (e.g. Distributor-led, Customer-led) and channels (digital commerce, pharmacy, modern trade) is preferred.
Location
- London Bankside
About the Company
- Haleon is a purpose-driven, world-class consumer company putting everyday health in the hands of millions.
- Our trusted portfolio of brands includes Sensodyne®, Panadol®, Advil®, Voltaren®, Theraflu®, Otrivin®, and Centrum®.
- We combine deep human understanding with trusted science.
- Our Win as One strategy puts our purpose – to deliver better everyday health with humanity – at the heart of everything we do.
- We have an agile, performance-focused culture.
Equal Opportunity
- Haleon is committed to mobilizing our purpose in a way that represents the diverse consumers and communities who rely on our brands every day.
- We strive to create an inclusive culture where different backgrounds and views are valued and respected.
- We aim for Haleon to be a place where all employees feel they truly belong.
- Personal information shared during the application process is voluntary and used to meet regulatory and reporting obligations and support inclusion and belonging programmes.
- Personal information provided will be kept confidential, used only for legitimate business purposes, and will never be used in making employment decisions.
- If you require a reasonable adjustment or accommodation, please let your recruiter know.
