APAC OTC Business Acceleration Lead

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.

This is an exciting time to join us and help shape the future. It's an opportunity to be part of something special. We are currently recruiting for an APAC OTC Business Acceleration Manager.

Similar Roles – BU specific Innovation Roles G6, Category Innovation Senior Managers G6

Size of Business – can be requested from hiring manager during interview process

Stakeholders – VPs Strategy/BU AMDs/CBIA/R&D/Supply/Strategy/Category

Complexity – BUs, complex supply chain (multiple sourcing sites), CMO partnerships, Multiple categories Pain & Respiratory

Responsibilities:

• Drive OTC growth acceleration across APAC BUs
• Drive Innovation acceleration and help drive global innovation pipeline to be fit for purpose in APAC
• Partner cross-functionally with category, R&D, APAC Region & BUs in landing innovation with scale and focus on mid/long term innovation pipeline
• Partner with APAC OTC Business Acceleration Lead and APAC Innovation Lead in executing global brand strategies and priorities on power brands

Key Interdependencies

• Directly Report into APAC, OTC Acceleration Lead, Nyon
• Dotted line reporting into APAC Innovation Lead, Singapore
• Strong partnership with respective global OTC team, BUs OTC Category teams and APAC multi-functional team

Requirements:

• 8-10 years+ experience in sales & marketing across large business/markets.
• Experience in Regional/Global roles in a matrix structure
• Experience in OTC or regulatory constrained Consumer Healthcare businesses
• Ideally prior experience in Innovation design and delivery roles
• Bold in moving things forward: Obsessed with beating the competition, pushing boundaries and challenging the status quo. Take informed risks and drive breakthroughs in our vision for consumers' everyday health.
• Bring the outside in: Shape our vision, decisions, and actions based on our deep understanding of consumers and customers
• Take accountability for delivering results: Go beyond to solve problems. Takes accountability to deliver our commitment
• Building strong relationships and impactful collaboration with multiple internal and external partners
• APAC language skills, especially Mandarin, are a bonus

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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