Job Description

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 MEA Wellness Innovation Lead is responsible for defining and delivering the innovation strategy for Wellness category across the MEA region. This role ensures a strong, consumer‑centric innovation pipeline that drives sustainable growth, maximizes portfolio opportunities, and enables effective scale‑up across priority and emerging markets.

Working closely with cross‑functional and local market teams as well as cross OU teams to maximize learnings, the role leads end‑to‑end innovation initiatives — from ideation, and business case development through governance, execution, and launch — ensuring timely delivery, strong alignment, and value creation across the region.

Role Responsibilities

• Define and deliver the innovation plan for Wellness categories across MEA, grounded in consumer insights and strategic priorities of the category

• Drive innovation scale‑up across markets by leveraging range and innovation assessments in partnership with local teams

• Lead and coordinate the end‑to‑end progression of innovation projects, ensuring on‑time and on‑full delivery against agreed plans

• Lead the pre launch planning , launch KPIs with LOC cross functional teams to ensure flawless launch execution and post launch innovation reviews.

• Effectively cascading learnings from launches happening in MEA across LOCs as well as interfacing with cross OU/ global teams to synthesize learnings from outside MEA markets with an aim to enrich MEA strategy & execution

• Ensure timely and effective presentation of innovation initiatives through required regional and operating unit governance forums

• Partner with cross‑functional teams (Marketing, Finance, R&D, Supply, Regulatory, and others) to ensure alignment and flawless execution

• Recommend, align, and drive robust business case assumptions by leveraging key business levers to maximize value and scalability

• Co‑lead innovation projects throughout the full lifecycle, from ideation and planning through development and market launch

• Identify risks and challenges within the innovation pipeline and collaborate on mitigation plans and creative solutions

• Monitor innovation performance and support continuous improvement of innovation processes and ways of working

Why you?

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Marketing, Business, or a related field

• Prior experience in marketing, innovation, or related commercial roles

• Proven experience managing multiple innovation or commercialization projects simultaneously

• Strong financial acumen, including experience building or contributing to innovation business cases and P&L assumptions

• Strong analytical capability, leveraging consumer insights, market data, and competitive intelligence

• Ability to work effectively in cross‑functional and multi‑market environments

• Strong stakeholder management and influencing skills

• Proficient English communication skills

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience leading innovation initiatives within consumer, OTC, wellness, or FMCG categories

• String flair for consumer insight identification and translating it into innovation development e2e

• Regional or multi‑country experience across MEA or similar markets

• Exposure to end‑to‑end innovation lifecycle management, from concept to market launch

• Creative, results‑oriented mindset with strong execution focus

• Experience navigating governance forums and senior stakeholder engagement

Job Posting End Date

2026-07-07

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.

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Note to candidates

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