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

*this is a hybrid role requiring a 2-3 day in office presence in Warren, NJ.

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

• 5+ years of dedicated innovation experience

• 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

• P&L/budget management experience

• 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.