Global Category ComEx Director - Wellness

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.

Global Category Com Ex Director  (Wellness) drives the integration of commercial excellence into Wellness category strategies, ensuring customer and shop percentricity, effective sales planning and capabilities to deliver sustainable category growth through commercial initiatives.

Role Responsibilities

• Champion the ‘Voice of the Customer’ within the Wellness category, embedding customer‑centric insights into category strategies and initiatives to drive sustainable growth.

• Approving and delivering commercial inputs and customer insights into the Category‑led forums (e.g., CGLT) and enterprise‑wide planning cadences (e.g., IGP)

• Inputting category‑specific strategies onto Com Ex‑wide priorities & guidance, reflecting category growth plans onto Com Ex blueprints

• Coordinate with other Global Category Com Ex Directors  to drive the definition and approval of global commercial planning frameworks, metrics, and guidance, ensuring alignment with IGP and category strategies.

• Collaborating with OUs & Markets and Global teams to ensure effective implementation of commercial planning frameworks, toolings and alignment with category strategies.

Basic Qualifications:

• Proven experience in commercial excellence, category management, or a related commercial leadership role within a large consumer health or FMCG organisation.

• Demonstrated ability to champion the ‘Voice of the Customer’ and embed customer‑centric insights into commercial strategies and planning.

• Experience in defining, approving, and delivering commercial inputs into enterprise‑wide planning cadences (e.g., IGP) and category‑specific forums.

• Strong collaborative leadership skills, with experience coordinating across global teams and other functional leaders to define and implement strategic frameworks.

• Experience with in the ‘Wellness’ category or a closely related health and consumer goods sector.

• Experience across different market archetypes (e.g. Distributor‑led, Customer‑led) is preferred.

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.

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.

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