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.

As a valued member of the innovation team you have an opportunity to help shape our future innovation pipeline for one of our largest global brands, with the support of an organization that is fueled by a personal passion to give our customers and our consumers more.

The Innovation Manager will be responsible for developing new innovation platforms, product ideas and claims, and for driving cross-functional teams in the delivery of new products to launch readiness stage. The ideal candidate will have several years of innovation experience, a demonstrated ability to independently build a multi-year pipeline by identifying, validating and leading development of new ideas, and the capability to manage multiple projects and cross- functional teams with speed, professionalism and creative-problem solving.

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

• Lead innovation platform identification and project delivery a leading brand

• Execute on time in full several projects as part of a robust 3-year pipeline

• Build and validate strong consumer-driven propositions, business cases, concepts, pricing, packaging direction and launch support scenarios

• Project Management to lead cross-functional teams and deliver on time in full. Must lead projects and teams through stage gates

• Represent pipelines and projects (in governance meetings, retailer engagements, etc)

• During development, effectively transfer to marketing partners for commercialization & launch

• Collaborate with key partners (Brand, Insights, R&D, Sales Strategy, Finance, etc)

• Liaise and have experience with interacting with third party business partners (including at a senior level) collaborate on innovation pipelines and work through accelerated timelines.

• External focus, aware of what is happening when it comes to trends, ingredients, culture beyond your job spec

• Consumer obsessed and a fascination with the products and category we sell in  - formulations, science, look, and feel with a commitment to deliver superiority

• Strong financial acumen. Ability to build strong business cases, forecasts, and manage budgets

Why you?

Basic Qualifications:

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

• Bachelor’s degree

• CPG experience

• Innovation experience in fast-moving consumer goods, over the counter or non-traditional health/wellness industry

• Minimum 5 years of dedicated innovation experience

• Minimum 4 years combined marketing + consumer + innovation experience

• Experience creating and delivering an enduring innovation pipeline

• Demonstrated ability to identify and deploy powerful insights

• Strong writing and communication skills

• Proven P&L/budget management

• Ability to lead within a matrix organization, integrating complex multifunctional efforts crossing multiple business areas

• US category experience

Preferred Qualifications:

If you have the following characteristics, it would be a plus:

• MBA

• Proven delivery of flawless launches

• Demonstrated analytical ability to understand and report data to drive business decisions.

• Project Management Experience

• Commercialization Experience (New Item Launch Experience)

• Experience using AI as an Innovation Tool

The ideal candidate will also possess the following leader behaviors:

• Change Champion: 

  •  Embraces change, a positive change agent championing the organizational strategy and embodying the values of the company. 

  • Helps bring people along on the journey.

Haleon offers a robust Total Reward package that consists of competitive pay and a comprehensive benefits program.  This includes a generous 401(k) plan, tuition reimbursement and time off programs including 6 months paid parental leave.  On day one, you are eligible for benefits, including our healthcare programs where the company pays for the majority of your medical coverage for you and your family.  We also offer the opportunity to receive a discretionary bonus based on the achievement of key business performance and other incentive/recognition programs as part of the offering. The salary range for this role is 136,809 – 171,012 USD + 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.

As you apply, we will ask you to share some personal information, which is entirely voluntary. We want to have an opportunity to consider a diverse pool of qualified candidates and this information will assist us in meeting that objective and in understanding how well we are doing against our inclusion and diversity ambitions. We would really appreciate it if you could take a few moments to complete it. Rest assured, Hiring Managers do not have access to this information and we will treat your information confidentially.

Haleon is an Equal Opportunity Employer and, in the US, we adhere to Affirmative Action principles. This ensures that all qualified applicants will receive equal consideration for employment without regard to race, color, national origin, religion, sex, pregnancy, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, age, disability, genetic information, military service, covered/protected veteran status or any other federal, state or local protected class.

Please note that if you are a US Licensed Healthcare Professional or Healthcare Professional as defined by the laws of the state issuing your license, Haleon may be required to capture and report expenses Haleon incurs, on your behalf, in the event you are afforded an interview for employment. This capture of applicable transfers of value is necessary to ensure Haleon’s compliance to all federal and state US Transparency requirements.

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Haleon offers a robust Total Reward package that consists of competitive pay and a comprehensive benefits program.  This includes a generous 401(k) plan, tuition reimbursement and time off programs including 6 months paid parental leave.  On day one, you are eligible for benefits, including our healthcare programs where the company pays for the majority of your medical coverage for you and your family.  We also offer the opportunity to receive a discretionary bonus based on the achievement of key business performance and other incentive/recognition programs as part of the offering.