About this role

Welcome to Haleon. We’re a purpose-driven, world-class consumer company putting everyday health in the hands of millions. In just three years since our launch, we’ve grown, evolved and are now entering an exciting new chapter – one filled with bold ambitions and enormous opportunity.

Our trusted portfolio of brands – including Sensodyne®, Panadol®, Advil®, Voltaren®, Theraflu®, Otrivin®, and Centrum® – lead in resilient and growing categories. What sets us apart is our unique blend of deep human understanding and trusted science.

Now it’s time to fully realise the full potential of our business and our people. We do this through our Win as One strategy. It puts our purpose – to deliver better everyday health with humanity – at the heart of everything we do. It unites us, inspires us, and challenges us to be better every day, driven by our agile, performance-focused culture.

About the role

The US Innovation Senior Director owns the delivery of Wellness and Digestive Health Category innovation pipelines necessary for the US BU to achieve sales, growth, and profit goals. Works side-by-side with US Marketing team and Global Wellness team to build US innovation strategies and projects complementary to global and local strategic focus areas.

This role requires a balance of long-term strategic vision to identify new innovation growth spaces as well as operational agility to ensure on-time progression of projects to meet approved business cases. While specifically responsible for innovation, this leader is expected to operate with an enterprise perspective to advance pipelines that contribute to Category, BU, and Haleon goals (e.g. sustainability, margin enhancement, channel growth, etc).

As a member of the US Wellness Leadership Team, this individual will co-own Innovation team culture and capabilities and must be a role model of winning behaviors including cross-functional collaboration, an adaptive leadership style, high change agility and resilience, a curious and continuous improvement mindset, and a strong bias for action.

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

- Developing a deep understanding of the consumer, category, and competitive players to inform strategic and project recommendations
- Creation of category and brand innovation strategies, innovation platforms, and pipeline projects aligned to local and global strategies
- Delivery of a sufficient pipeline of high-quality, penetration-driving innovation that meets the financial, household penetration, and sustainability objectives of Haleon
- Development and execution of 1-4-year brand pipelines for all channels (eComm, Club, Value, FDM), to ensure a robust pipeline with supportable cadence
- Manage team resourcing. Allocate and assign platform and project responsibilities across team. Identify single Point of Contact individuals to align to Brand.
- Ideate and lead significant innovation platforms and projects through stage gates as PAL (Project Accountable Leader), in accordance with the Haleon Innovation Model
- Build and assess innovation project business cases with strong desirability/ viability/ feasibility/ sustainability profiles
- Manage, coach, and develop Sr Innovation Mangers, Managers, and Associate Managers to build a strong bench of skilled innovators
- Lead Innovation function and Wellness and New Categories process transformation initiatives to simplify and speed up. Develop, pilot, and operationalize new repeatable innovation approaches, in alignment with key stakeholders
- Represent category pipelines and projects internally (e.g. governance and leadership meetings) and externally (e.g. customer engagements)
- Lead select key initiatives for total US Innovation team. Examples include I&D, sustainability, Learning and Development, Talent Development

Why you?

Basic Qualifications:

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

- Bachelors degree
- 10+ years marketing, brand management, or innovation experience
- Significant innovation experience including responsibility for setting innovation strategies, creating and executing platforms, managing end-to-end development, running large multi-year cross-functional teams, and launching new products
- Highly Desired: Commercial experience. Strong facility with P&L, forecasting, and go-to-market launch planning
- Strong strategic and analytical skills, including ability to source, synthesize, and leverage data to make fact-based recommendations
- Excellent storytelling and communication skills. Ability to inspire enthusiasm and alignment with internal and external stakeholders
- Exceptional leadership skills. Can set priorities and rally teams behind key objectives. Demonstrates flexibility of individual and team leadership approaches. Is self-aware and flexes to the situation.
- Previous experience managing people and creating a culture where team members can bring their best selves to work.
- Comfortable challenging status-quo. Proactive in identifying, leading and implementing change initiatives. Stretches beyond comfort zone.

Preferred Qualifications:

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

- MBA or master's degree in related field.
- Entrepreneurial experience a plus as is experience with varied innovation approaches (traditional stage gate, lean start up, sprints) and applied understanding of Design Thinking principles.
- Demonstrated examples of use of non-traditional innovation tools, such as digital testing, MVP launch-and-learns, online and physical experimentation.

Location: This role is hybrid based in Warren, NJ with in-office requirements of 3 times per week.

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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.

Benefits

## Job Posting End Date
2026-10-02

Equal Opportunities

Haleon are committed to mobilising our purpose in a way that represents the diverse consumers and communities who rely on our brands every day. It guides us in creating an inclusive culture, where different backgrounds and views are valued and respected – all in support of understanding and best serving the needs of our consumers and unleashing the full potential of our people. It’s important to us that Haleon is a place where all our employees feel they truly belong.

During the application process, we may ask you to share some personal information, which is entirely voluntary. This information ensures we meet certain regulatory and reporting obligations and supports the development, refinement, and execution of our inclusion and belonging programmes that are open to all Haleon employees.

The personal information you provide will be kept confidential, used only for legitimate business purposes, and will never be used in making any employment decisions, including hiring decisions.

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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