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

Global Category ComEx Out to Execute Manager (OTC)drives the integration of commercial excellence into the category strategies, ensuring customer and shopper centricity, effective sales planning and capabilities to deliver sustainable category growth through commercial initiatives.

Role Responsibilities

• Actively support the Global Category Comex Director in defining the commercial element of the category strategy and in particular in:
• Championing the 'Voice of the Customer' within the category, embedding customer-centric insights into Category strategies and initiatives to drive sustainable growth.
• Inputting 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, ensuring alignment with IGP and category strategies.
• Creation and management of Retailer facing content supporting Sales and ComEx teams.
• Collaborating with OUs & Markets and Global teams to ensure effective implementation of commercial planning frameworks, tooling and alignment with category strategies.

Why you?

Basic Qualifications:

• 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 OTC 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 – this role is based in: London Bankside

Job Posting End Date

2026-07-07

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.

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Note to candidates

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