Global Category ComEx Director - Wellness

Global Category Com Ex Director (Wellness)

The Global Category Com Ex Director (Wellness) drives the integration of commercial excellence into Wellness category strategies, ensuring strong customer and shopper centricity, best-in-class omnichannel execution (including digital commerce), and scalable commercial capabilities to deliver sustainable category growth.

Role Responsibilities

• Champion the 'Voice of the Customer and Shopper', embedding insights into category strategies, innovation, and go-to-market approaches to drive sustainable growth.
• Provide and approve commercial inputs and customer insights into Category-led forums (e.g., CGLT) and enterprise-wide planning cadences (e.g., IGP).
• Translate category growth strategies into customer category story, ensuring alignment with global commercial excellence blueprints and frameworks.
• Partner closely with Global Category, within Commercial Excellence global function, and OU teams to shape commercially viable category growth strategies across channels and markets.

• Act as a key interface with Marketing Excellence and Commercial teams to ensure category strategies are fully optimized for Digital Commerce and omnichannel execution (including retails and pharmacy channels).
• Identify and scale digital commerce growth opportunities, leveraging data, analytics, and emerging trends to inform category strategies.
• Partner with dComm and Media teams to ensure consistent deployment of global standards, tools, and capabilities across markets.
• Work closely with NRM and Brand team to identify PPA opportunities to support the omnichannel ambition.

• Coordinate with other Global Category Com Ex Directors to define and align on global commercial planning frameworks, KPIs, and governance, ensuring integration with IGP and category strategies
• Drive adoption of standardized commercial excellence frameworks and tools across OUs and markets, ensuring consistency and scalability.
• Enable capability building across markets, fostering best practice sharing and continuous improvement in commercial execution.

• Collaborate with OUs, Markets, and Global teams to ensure effective implementation of commercial strategies and frameworks in-market.
• Foster strong partnerships with Category, Marketing, Sales, dComm, and CBIA (analytics and insight) teams to ensure end-to-end alignment from strategy to execution.
• Act as a thought leader on commercial excellence influencing senior stakeholders and driving enterprise-wide alignment.

The position is based in Warren, NJ, and follows a hybrid model, requiring an in-office presence of 3 days per week.

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

• Proven experience in Commercial Excellence, Category Management, Sales Strategy, or Digital Commerce within a large consumer health or FMCG organization.
• Direct experience in managing customer.
• Demonstrated ability to embed customer and shopper-centric insights into commercial and category strategies.
• Experience delivering commercial inputs into enterprise planning cycles (e.g., IGP) and category governance forums.
• Strong understanding of digital commerce ecosystems, including omnichannel strategy, eRetail fundamentals, and performance metrics.
• Experience working across multiple market archetypes and channels (e.g., distributor-led, customer-led, eCommerce, pharmacy, modern trade).
• Proven ability to lead cross-functional collaboration and influence stakeholders across global and local teams.

• Experience with in the Wellness category or related consumer health segments.
• Strong exposure to Digital Commerce capability building, tools, and best practice deployment at scale.
• Analytical mindset with the ability to leverage data, insights, and emerging trends (e.g., AI, digital analytics) to drive decision-making.
• Experience building and scaling global frameworks and capabilities in an omnichannel environment.

The salary range for this role is $ 192,733 - $265,000 USD annually + bonus

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.

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