Innovation Research Lead

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.

The China R&D Innovation Research lead will

be responsible for leading and driving early stage innovation projects for local star and drive for profit brands

Ensures that the voice of the consumer is heard and that consumer input drives the initiatives pursued

Ensures identification of new opportunities in line with innovation strategy and design technical strategy that is viable to lead to a successful launch

Lead the connection with all R&DCommercialand Supply Chain functions to enable the building of a robust project for delivery into the pipeline

Work directly with external scouting team to identify and evaluate new viable innovation opportunities

IP generation writes technical papers presents in external forums to enhance personal departmental and corporate reputation.

Key Responsibilities

Establish new technology platforms to fill the wellness pipeline with big bet innovations.

Deliver qualified(consumer and technical)early stage projects and successfully transitions them into the development pipeline

Identify assess and drive forward key innovation opportunities

Provide technical support and project leadership for identified innovation opportunities for the category.

Lead cross-functional sharing of scientific or consumer opportunities breaking down any silos

Drive and maintain awareness of scientific literature and competitive intelligene to assist work progression and understanding

Establish supportive developmental and learning-orientated environment.

Serve as the voice of the consumer when developing early stage opportunities through close interaction with consumer insights and product understanding driving early consumer input / technical consumer understanind into new innovation ideas.

Create technical and product understanding research plans to fit overall project objectives Data-Driven

Perform comprehensive sophisticated and critical evaluation of internal and external data

Author technical papers/presentations to enhance personal departmental and corporate reputation.

Lead Due Diligence on external innovation opportunities to deliver strong technical recommendations

Must to have end to end nutrition product innovation and development experience with solid track record of nutrition or health food product delivery.

Strong learning agility and creativity to explore and deliver innovation platform in new categories eg OTC as needed.

Nutrition product innovation and development experience in mobility MVM is preferred.

Is able to well grasp the challenges associated with the other core areas in order for the incumbent to deal with the technical complexity inherent in the role and to understand the regulatory quality and safety implications of any decisions made.

Experience of partnering with Regulatory Product Development Supply Chain and Clinical Development on the requirements for product development and an understanding of the approval processes

Experience in consumer-focused global healthcare related products /brand management

Maintains external networks and represents the organization on many topics in the role of Innovation

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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.

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