Head of Commercial Excellence

Haleon•New York, NY

16h

About The Position

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. As a Head of Commercial Excellence, you will lead the shopper function and has responsibility for shopper managers on a dotted line-basis to develop and execute high-impact, multi-channel shopper marketing strategies and plans that are built from in-depth shopper insight, work in sync with retailer strategies and align to Category and brand strategies across the GB Haleon brand portfolio.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree.
10 years sales/category/shopper/marketing roles, managing portfolio of brands across variety of trade channels.

Nice To Haves

Strong people agility to navigate through the internal and externa matrix, interacting and influencing at a variety of levels.
Experience leading a team.

Responsibilities

Deliver brand sales, share and profit
Lead the Shopper Marketing function, leading the team to develop winning Shopper strategies for each of our portfolios and brands, which leverage shopper insight and align with our retailer’s needs.
Develop the Shopper activation plan on a monthly, quarterly and annual basis to ensure we have a winning and executable plan across customers and channels
Create powerful relationships with the Sales Leadership team, Controllers and key Retail Customers to understand retailer needs and to enable better, more impactful shopper solutions and activations.
Lead the dialogue with the global Category teams to develop fit for purpose assets and shopper toolkits, subsequently leading the shopper marketing team to deploying the toolkits to maximum effect within GB, creating high impact brand presence in relevant shopper touchpoints.
Agree the Shopper Insights needs/gaps and work with the teams and the SSL to enrich GB insight and understand
Lead the Shopper agenda through the annual commercial planning process to ensure the shopper voice is at the heart of the brand and customer plans.
Be the lead point of contact for the External 3rd party merchandising force developing the annual merchandising key priorities
Evaluate and benchmark our shopper retailer activation internally and externally to ensure we are spending money efficiently/continually improving and delivering ROI to the business
Build Shopper Marketing skills and capability, ensuring we are driving up our talent bench strength