Global Category ComEx Director - Wellness

Haleon • Warren Township, NJ

2d • $192,733 - $265,000 • Hybrid

About The Position

The Global Category ComEx Director (Wellness) drives the integration of commercial excellence into Wellness category strategies, ensuring strong customer and shopper centricity, best-in-class omnichannel execution (including digital commerce), and scalable commercial capabilities to deliver sustainable category growth. The position is based in Warren, NJ, and follows a hybrid model, requiring an in-office presence of 3 days per week.

Requirements

• Proven experience in Commercial Excellence, Category Management, Sales Strategy, or Digital Commerce within a large consumer health or FMCG organization.
• Direct experience in managing customer.
• Demonstrated ability to embed customer and shopper-centric insights into commercial and category strategies.
• Experience delivering commercial inputs into enterprise planning cycles (e.g., IGP) and category governance forums.
• Strong understanding of digital commerce ecosystems, including omnichannel strategy, eRetail fundamentals, and performance metrics.
• Experience working across multiple market archetypes and channels (e.g., distributor-led, customer-led, eCommerce, pharmacy, modern trade).
• Proven ability to lead cross-functional collaboration and influence stakeholders across global and local teams.

Nice To Haves

• Experience within the Wellness category or related consumer health segments.
• Strong exposure to Digital Commerce capability building, tools, and best practice deployment at scale.
• Analytical mindset with the ability to leverage data, insights, and emerging trends (e.g., AI, digital analytics) to drive decision-making.
• Experience building and scaling global frameworks and capabilities in an omnichannel environment.

Responsibilities

• Champion the ‘Voice of the Customer and Shopper’, embedding insights into category strategies, innovation, and go-to-market approaches to drive sustainable growth.
• Provide and approve commercial inputs and customer insights into Category-led forums (e.g., CGLT) and enterprise-wide planning cadences (e.g., IGP).
• Translate category growth strategies into customer category story, ensuring alignment with global commercial excellence blueprints and frameworks.
• Partner closely with Global Category, within Commercial Excellence global function, and OU teams to shape commercially viable category growth strategies across channels and markets.
• Act as a key interface with Marketing Excellence and Commercial teams to ensure category strategies are fully optimized for Digital Commerce and omnichannel execution (including retails and pharmacy channels).
• Identify and scale digital commerce growth opportunities, leveraging data, analytics, and emerging trends to inform category strategies.
• Partner with dComm and Media teams to ensure consistent deployment of global standards, tools, and capabilities across markets.
• Work closely with NRM and Brand team to identify PPA opportunities to support the omnichannel ambition.
• Coordinate with other Global Category ComEx Directors to define and align on global commercial planning frameworks, KPIs, and governance, ensuring integration with IGP and category strategies
• Drive adoption of standardized commercial excellence frameworks and tools across OUs and markets, ensuring consistency and scalability.
• Enable capability building across markets, fostering best practice sharing and continuous improvement in commercial execution.
• Collaborate with OUs, Markets, and Global teams to ensure effective implementation of commercial strategies and frameworks in-market.
• Foster strong partnerships with Category, Marketing, Sales, dComm, and CBIA (analytics and insight) teams to ensure end-to-end alignment from strategy to execution.
• Act as a thought leader on commercial excellence influencing senior stakeholders and driving enterprise-wide alignment.

Benefits

• Competitive pay
• Generous 401(k) plan
• Tuition reimbursement
• Time off programs
• 6 months paid parental leave
• Healthcare programs (company pays for the majority of medical coverage for you and your family)
• Discretionary bonus based on the achievement of key business performance
• Other incentive/recognition programs

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Director
• Education Level: No Education Listed