Job Description
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
As Head of Commercial Excellence, you’ll play a pivotal role in shaping how Haleon wins in market. You’ll connect commercial strategy with customer-facing execution, lead commercial excellence initiatives, and bring strategic oversight to trade marketing operations. In this role, you’ll help ensure our plans are insight-led, customer-centric, and fully aligned with our brand ambition and business priorities.
You’ll also build the capabilities, tools, and insight needed to unlock success across each of these strategic pillars.
A day in The Life
Role Responsibilities
- You’ll shape the right go-to-market model by bringing critical input based on market maturity, business needs, and the portfolio priorities we want to accelerate.
- You’ll coordinate and streamline commercial systems while enhancing local processes to improve execution and efficiency.
- You’ll build a customer-centric agenda that helps the market better understand customer needs and supports stronger Joint Business Planning.
- You’ll leverage the Shopper Science Lab to uncover shopper needs, turn them into actionable insights, and translate them into strong customer and category plans.
- You’ll provide strategic direction and oversight across shopper marketing initiatives, from retail marketing and point-of-sale materials to customer-specific promotional campaigns.
- You’ll ensure consistent brand positioning across customer touchpoints and align trade marketing activity with integrated marketing campaigns.
- You’ll develop channel-specific commercial strategies and optimise product mix, pricing, and promotions by channel.
- You’ll build and maintain shopper marketing dashboards and commercial analytics that generate insight and support better decision-making.
- You’ll lead the regional Net Revenue Management agenda, identifying value for both Haleon and our customers through smart mix, pricing, trade terms, promotion, and portfolio management.
Why you?
Basic Qualifications:
- University degree; an MBA is a plus.
- At least 10 years of experience across companies which have proven multichannel customer centric approach
Key skills:
- Experience of managing global/ regional retailers
- Cross Functional Team experience (Sales/ Category Marketing)
- Shopper Understanding and Category Management Experience
- Channel Strategy experience preferred.
- Proven management skills
- Good communication and collaborative work skills
- Strong people leadership
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.
Adjustment or Accommodations Request
If you require a reasonable adjustment or accommodation or other assistance to apply for a job at Haleon at any stage of the application process, please let your recruiter know by providing them with a description of specific adjustments you are requesting. We’ll provide all reasonable adjustments to support you throughout the recruitment process and treat all information you provide us in confidence.
Note to candidates
The Haleon recruitment team will contact you using a Haleon email account (@haleon.com). If you are not sure whether the email you received is from Haleon, please get in touch.