Innovation Insights 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.

About the role

The Innovation Insights Lead will be a strategic partner to the Innovation team being a key voice in the Innovation Strategy and leading the End-to-End learning agenda for key innovations in the US market. The candidate will leverage these insights to drive clarity about the key components of successful innovations (proposition packaging claims messaging) and work closely with cross-functional partners to ensure that our innovations are rooted in consumer needs.

Role Responsibilities

• Collaborate with the Innovation Lead to shape the Innovation Strategy by gathering and organizing knowledge from various sources to support our Innovation Pillars.

• Own the end-to-end Innovation research as established in the Innovation Operating Model.

• Drive agile fit-to-purpose decision making driving quality in execution without compromising speed to market

• Become an instrumental stakeholder as the voice of the consumer in strategic discussions with Innovation Brand Customer Strategy R&D and other key stakeholders.

• Collaborate with Category/Brand Insights and Shopper Insights to mine existing foundational insights.

• Clearly articulate recommendations based on existing knowledge inclusive of current knowledge and new research.

• Drive pilots of new methods to understand whats next in research methodologies to drive precision and agility.
  

Leadership Expectations

• Strategic acumen: Applies a strong understanding of business category and consumer dynamics to connect insights to innovation strategy anticipate implications and guide decisions that drive longterm value and competitive advantage.

• Growth Mindset: Demonstrates curiosity and openness to learning by continuously evolving skills embracing new methodologies and perspectives and using feedback and experimentation to improve insight quality and innovation impact.

• Bias for Action: Demonstrates strong ownership and urgency by translating insights into clear timely recommendations making informed decisions amid ambiguity and proactively advancing innovation work while balancing speed with rigor.

• Collaboration: Partners effectively across functions by actively listening sharing insights transparently and integrating diverse perspectives to drive aligned decisions and stronger innovation outcomes.

• Relationship building: Builds trustbased productive relationships across functions by demonstrating credibility empathy and consistency enabling effective influence alignment and stronger innovation outcomes.

• Compliance: Ensures (internal and third parties) understanding and compliance with applicable global and local laws and regulations including but not limited to: antitrust competition law unique category captain requirements adverse advents data protection advertising and others) as well as Haleon values and Haleon standards

Why You

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelors degree in Business Marketing Analytics or related field.

• 5 years of experience in strategy brand management innovation consumer/shopper insights analytics or roles that involve enabling simplicity in complex situations.

• Experience in managing multi project-based workload and written strong functional/technical skills.

• Agile and quick learner with astute strategy abilities and mindset.

• Excellent communicator and presenter with ability to communicate across all levels of the organization.

• Excellent interpersonal skills being able to effectively interact with different leadership styles.

• Demonstrated ability to drive influence with key colleagues.

• Strong intellectual curiosity and analytical skills to identify trends from multiple sources and translate into compelling storytelling.

• Experience in Microsoft Office Suite including Excel Word PowerPoint OneDrive and Teams.

• Demonstrates values and behaviors consistent with Haleon expectations.
  

Preferred Qualifications

• Masters degree or MBA.

• Familiarity with secondary data sources (i.e. Circana Numerator etc).

• Familiarity with consumer/shopper research methods.

Location: This is a hybrid position based in Warren NJ requiring on-site presence 3 days per week.

The Salary Range for this role is $121952 $167684 USD 12% bonus

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Benefits

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.

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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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