Welcome to Haleon. Were a purpose-driven world-class consumer company putting everyday health in the hands of just three years since our launch weve 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 its 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.

Hello. Were Haleon. A new world-leading consumer health company. Shaped by all who join us. Together were 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. Whats more were achieving it in a company that were in control an environment that were co-creating. And a culture thats uniquely ours. Care to join us. It isnt a question.

With category leading brands such as Sensodyne Voltaren and Centrum built on trusted science and human understanding and combined with our passion knowledge and expertise were uniquely placed to do this and to grow a strong successful business.

This is an exciting time to join us and help shape the future. Its an opportunity to be part of something special.

Job Purpose

To lead the development and execution of brand strategies and annual plans for the Oral Health Care (OHC) and Digestive (DG) portfolio in Sri Lanka/Maldives Market Including Sensodyne Sensodyne Toothbrush Corsodyl ENO and other related products and brand extensions to ensuring the achievement of annual revenue (top-line) and profitability (bottom-line) targets.

Key responsibilities

Brand & Category Strategy

• Develop strategies for brand and category growth based on consumer need states brand positioning and market trends ensuring alignment with overall corporate priorities.
• Create a roadmap for key growth drivers and lead implementation to achieve projected category and brand growth.
• Continuously review and evaluate brand strategies against performance market developments and competitor activities taking corrective actions where necessary.

Portfolio & Pricing Management

• Achieve profitability targets for assigned brands through optimal portfolio and pricing strategies.
• Manage portfolio strategy in line with market requirements and ensure effective pricing strategies within a price-controlled environment using robust market intelligence systems.

Sales & Distribution Alignment

• Collaborate with the sales team on annual sales plans and align sales and distribution strategies to achieve target volumes and revenue.
• Manage brand activities in the Maldives market to drive penetration and achieve set objectives.

Budget & Cost Management

• Efficiently manage A&P budgets to deliver agreed brand profitability coordinating with media agencies for cost-effective planning supply chain for promotional material creative agencies for communication assets and customer marketing for trade promotions.
• Control inventory transitions during innovation renovation and promotions to minimize write-offs and ensure smooth execution.

Brand Equity & Marketing Plans

• Develop and implement brand marketing plans within approved budgets and timelines.
• Build and sustain strong brand equity image and awareness for existing and new products.

Shopper & Consumer Insights

• Identify shopper insights purchase drivers and barriers for respective brands.
• Develop actionable shopper insights and strategic shopper plans based on research and data.
• Create and maintain shopper profiles and develop activation programs that bring these plans to life.
• Drive shopper marketing innovation by testing and sharing results of new initiatives.

Innovation & Product Lifecycle

• Develop and execute a secure innovation pipeline aligned with local consumer needs and global innovation strategy.
• Conduct market research to identify emerging consumer trends and proactively build a full innovation funnel.
• Manage the Innovation-to-Market process ensuring timely launches through cross-functional collaboration.
• Lead product lifecycle management from concept to obsolescence.

Why you

Basic Qualifications:

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

• Bachelors degree in marketing or business management masters degree would be desirable
• Minimum 3-5 years of experience in leading brand management and marketing operations within the FMCG sector.
• Proven track record in developing and executing strategic brand plans that drive market share and profitability.
• Strong experience managing cross-functional teams including Sales Trade Marketing and Digital across diverse markets.
• Excellent leadership and mentoring skills with the ability to build talent and enhance team capability.
• Exceptional communication and presentation skills with experience delivering clear insights and recommendations to senior leadership.
• Solid understanding of FMCG market dynamics consumer behavior and category trends.
• Strong knowledge of brand performance frameworks including pricing portfolio management and ROI-driven marketing mix optimization.
• Experience in digital marketing e-commerce and data-driven decision-making is an advantage.
• High commercial acumen and strategic thinking with the ability to manage complex brand challenges and competitive pressures.
• Demonstrated ability to identify growth opportunities and implement long-term sustainable brand strategies.

Why Haleon

Our Win as One Framework is a simple stretching definition of our future direction. It includes our purpose ambitions strategic drivers and behaviours that will enable us to Win as One. This framework guides our decision-making strategy and culture. The successful candidate will demonstrate the following capabilities:

• Consumer first always: Engage key business counterparts and operational stakeholders to deliver operational execution of Haleon strategies related to eCommerce activities always putting the consumer first.

• Collaborate for impact: Establish and maintain relationships with critical groups to ensure customer knowledge is utilized to inform and deliver on the eCommerce roadmap collaborating for impact.

• Unlock value at pace: Drive business process improvement throughout the commercial and operational support teams unlocking value at pace.

• Grow myself and others: Continuously look for opportunities to learn build skills and share learning growing myself and others.

Diversity Equity and Inclusion

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.

Were 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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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. Its 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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