Strategic Innovation Insights Lead – Wellness (US CBIA)
About The Position
Haleon is seeking a strategic, forward-thinking Innovation Insights Lead to shape the future growth agenda for its Wellness portfolio, spanning Vitamins, Minerals & Supplements (VMS) and Digestive Health. The role drives consumer learning strategy and partners with Innovation, Marketing, R&D, and Commercial teams to identify breakthrough growth opportunities, build innovation frameworks, and strengthen decision-making capabilities. Combining consumer strategy, innovation leadership, foresight, and modern insights practices, the role accelerates the development of successful innovations. The lead champions new learning approaches, including advanced research methodologies, AI-enabled insights, and agile experimentation, to increase confidence in innovation decisions, improve forecast accuracy, and strengthen commercial success. The position leads and develops an Innovation Insights talent member (one direct report) and acts as the voice of the consumer in senior leadership discussions. The role is hybrid-based in Berkeley Heights, New Jersey, with three required in-office days per week.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree.
- 10 or more years of experience in innovation insights, consumer strategy, innovation consulting, foresight, or growth strategy within CPG, healthcare, wellness, or adjacent industries.
Nice To Haves
- Advanced degree.
- Proven experience shaping innovation strategy, portfolio growth agendas, and whitespace opportunity identification.
- Demonstrated expertise building innovation frameworks, learning systems, and stage-gate decision models.
- Experience modernizing consumer learning capabilities through agile experimentation, AI-enabled insights tools, and advanced testing approaches.
- Track record of translating emerging consumer trends and future market signals into actionable innovation platforms.
Responsibilities
- Identify emerging consumer needs, unmet opportunities, cultural shifts, and category trends to inform long-term growth strategies.
- Build innovation frameworks, opportunity platforms, and strategic roadmaps to guide portfolio investment decisions.
- Define innovation principles, success criteria, and guardrails to improve the quality and consistency of decision-making.
- Partner with senior leaders to influence innovation priorities and shape future growth platforms.
- Design and evolve an end-to-end innovation learning ecosystem, including testing frameworks, stage-gates, action standards, and decision architectures.
- Establish scalable approaches to evaluating concepts, propositions, claims, product experiences, packaging, and communications.
- Advance consumer learning capabilities through agile experimentation, AI-enabled methodologies, and next-generation insights tools.
- Drive a culture of rapid learning, evidence-based decision-making, and continuous optimization.
- Translate complex data and learning into clear, actionable recommendations that influence critical business decisions.
- Integrate consumer, market, and business intelligence into a holistic understanding of growth opportunities.
- Improve innovation effectiveness, forecast accuracy, and commercial outcomes through stronger consumer-centric decision-making.
- Identify risks early and drive course corrections across the innovation portfolio.
- Lead and develop a high-performing Innovation Insights talent member (one direct report).
- Represent the consumer in senior leadership discussions.
- Build partnerships across global and local stakeholders to drive alignment and adoption of learning.
- Establish best practices, standards, and ways of working that elevate innovation excellence across the organization.
Benefits
- Competitive pay.
- Comprehensive benefits program.
- Generous 401(k) plan.
- Tuition reimbursement.
- Time-off programs, including six months of paid parental leave.
- Healthcare programs, with the company paying for the majority of medical coverage for employees and their families.
- Discretionary bonus based on achievement of key business performance.
- Other incentive and recognition programs.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
