APAC OTC Business Acceleration Lead

Hello. We’re Haleon. A new world-leading consumer health company. Shaped by all who join us. Together, we’re improving everyday health for billions of people. By growing and innovating our global portfolio of category-leading brands – including Sensodyne, Panadol, Advil, Voltaren, Theraflu, Otrivin, and Centrum – through a unique combination of deep human understanding and trusted science. What’s more, we’re achieving it in a company that we’re in control of. In an environment that we’re co-creating. And a culture that’s uniquely ours. Care to join us. It isn’t a question.

This is an exciting time to join us and help shape the future. It’s an opportunity to be part of something special.

The APAC OTC Business Acceleration Lead for the APAC region will drive strong collaboration across Global Category and APAC BUs to drive business growth acceleration, and expansion of the OTC portfolio by identifying and driving strategic Big Bets.

We're looking for a driven individual who can make immediate impact and has the strategic acumen to recognise growth opportunities within the region.

This role will provide YOU the opportunity to lead key activities to progress YOUR career, these responsibilities include some of the following…

• Drive overall OTC portfolio growth acceleration across APAC markets by developing and implementing comprehensive business acceleration strategies, identifying market opportunities and collaborating with regional and global teams to align business acceleration strategies with overall company objectives.

• Drive Innovation acceleration for the region and help drive global innovation pipeline to be fit for purpose in APAC markets.

• Partner cross functionally with category, R&D, regions & markets in landing innovation with scale and focus on mid/long term innovation pipeline.

• Conduct thorough market research to understand market trends, competitive landscape, and consumer behaviour in the APAC region and utilize data-driven insights to make informed decisions and adjust strategies as needed.

• Identify & drive strategic Big Bets within the portfolio across the region to help accelerate growth in the region. Be responsible for driving and landing China and India acceleration future workstreams related to OTC Category including Access, new formats/new actives etc.

• Drive innovation execution excellence by leveraging learnings from across the APAC region as well as OTC global.

• Partner with Global Category and markets in executing global brand strategies and priorities on power brands, drive product awareness and sales growth.

Why you?

Basic Qualifications:

We are looking for professionals with these required skills to achieve our goals:

• Experience in OTC products or similar regulated consumer healthcare businesses

• Seasoned (15 yrs +) Sales & marketing experience across large business/markets

• Proven track record of successfully leading business acceleration initiatives, ideally in the APAC region

• In region APAC experience across multiple markets and deep understanding of the APAC market dynamics, consumer behaviour, and competitive landscape

• Experience in Regional/Global roles and managing cross-functional teams in a matrix structure

• Budgeting and forecasting: Commercial and financial acumen

Preferred Qualifications:

If you have the following characteristics, it would be a plus:

• Advert Behaviours: Unlock value, at pace and be bold in moving things forward:  Obsessed with beating the competition, pushing boundaries, and challenging the status quo. Take informed risks and drive breakthroughs in our vision for consumers’ everyday health. Think consumer first, always!

• Bring the outside in: Shape our vision, decisions, and actions based on our deep understanding of consumers and customers

• Break down barriers: Work in an agile way across boundaries. Challenge siloes and inefficiencies, with an owner mindset, prioritising what matters most. Use data, evidence, and applying judgement to balance pace, rigor, and risk

• Take accountability for delivering results: Go beyond to solve problems. Takes accountability to deliver our commitments, pushing for outcomes to outperform. Translating strategy into action: Building a compelling narrative, motivating others, setting objectives

• Collaborate for impact - Highly collaborative and good with technical partners (R&D/Supply Chain/CMOs) internally and external

• Grows self and others

APPLICATION CLOSING DATE – 11th October 2024.

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Why Join Us?  

The future of everyday health is changing. And we’re the people changing it. In front of us is an incredible opportunity to go beyond what any of us have done before. And make everyday health more achievable, more inclusive and more sustainable. For more and more people. So, join us, as we build one of the world’s leading consumer healthcare companies. Join us to innovate our category-leading brands. To better understand people’s everyday health needs. To tackle the biggest barriers that stand in their way. To change individual and societal behaviour. Join us to work with colleagues who share your restless energy. To explore your interests. To stretch yourself to do the best work of your career. And join us, as together we build a working experience that encourages us all to lead happier, healthier, more productive lives. The way we see it, every day is an opportunity for better. And we’re going all in to realize it.

Care to join us. Find out what life at Haleon is really like www.haleon.com/careers/
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