Growth Platform Lead, Director

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.

The Director, MA-OTC Growth Platform is accountable for the strategy, business case development, execution, and performance of Haleon's U.S. MA-OTC business as a scalable enterprise growth platform. This leader translates consumer, customer, category, and financial insights into clear business choices, mobilizes cross-functional teams, and delivers sustainable sales, market share, and profitability growth.

This role serves as the strategic integrator across commercial, marketing, medical, and operational functions, ensuring the platform delivers both short-term performance and long-term value creation.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop a deep understanding of consumer behavior, benefit-plan dynamics, category economics, and customer requirements to identify scalable growth opportunities.
• Create a single, integrated platform plan that connects brand, portfolio, media, shopper, customer, innovation, and partnership choices.
• Own annual business planning and long-range planning for the platform, including assumptions, investment requirements, financial returns, and resource choices.
• Lead senior stakeholder alignment and decision-making through concise, fact-based recommendations and compelling executive storytelling.
• Ensure high-quality in-market execution, clear ownership, milestone discipline, and accountability for business results.
• Build a learning agenda and measurement plan that connects media effectiveness, retailer performance, sales lift, incrementality, and ROI without double counting.
• Continuously scan for shifts in consumer behavior, customer priorities, regulation, competition, and technology, translating change into practical action.

Success Profile

Strategic Leadership

• Connects market, consumer, customer, portfolio, and financial insight to make sharp choices and set a compelling direction.

Commercial Acumen

• Demonstrates strong command of P&L, forecasting, investment cases, ROI, incrementality, and 1-3 year planning.

Enterprise Influence

• Builds alignment across functions and levels, constructively challenges thinking, and drives decisions without relying on authority.

Executive Communication

• Distills complexity into a clear narrative, adapts to the audience, and communicates with confidence under pressure.

Execution Excellence

• Moves from strategy to detailed activation with disciplined ownership, timelines, design standards, customer requirements, and commercial mechanics.

Agility & Resilience

• Navigates ambiguity, adapts quickly, maintains momentum through change, and brings the team with them.

People Leadership

• Sets high standards, coaches with clarity, creates accountability, and develops an inclusive, high-performing team.

Location: Berkeley Heights, NJ (Hybrid - 3 days onsite per week)

Salary range: $187,946 - $ 258,426 USD annually plus an annual bonus.

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree.
• 10+ years of experience in marketing, brand management, shopper marketing, commercial strategy, or a related discipline.
• Demonstrated experience developing growth strategies and translating where-to-play and how-to-win choices into executable plans.
• Strong commercial and financial capability, including P&L management, forecasting, business cases, ROI, and multi-year planning.
• Proven ability to lead cross-functional teams and influence senior internal and external stakeholders.
• Excellent analytical, storytelling, and executive communication skills.
• People-management experience with a track record of coaching talent and building team capability.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience leading a cross-category, portfolio, customer, or enterprise growth platform.
• Experience across retail, shopper, digital commerce, media, consumer insights, partnerships, or healthcare-related channels.
• Comfort operating in an evolving market with multiple data sources, complex stakeholders, and high visibility.

Haleon offers a robust Total Reward package that consists of competitive pay and a comprehensive benefits program.  This includes a generous 401(k) plan, tuition reimbursement and time off programs including 6 months paid parental leave.  On day one, you are eligible for benefits, including our healthcare programs where the company pays for the majority of your medical coverage for you and your family.  We also offer the opportunity to receive a discretionary bonus based on the achievement of key business performance and other incentive/recognition programs as part of the offering.

 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.

Please note that if you are a US Licensed Healthcare Professional or Healthcare Professional as defined by the laws of the state issuing your license, Haleon may be required to capture and report expenses Haleon incurs, on your behalf, in the event you are afforded an interview for employment. This capture of applicable transfers of value is necessary to ensure Haleon’s compliance to all federal and state US Transparency requirements.

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