Senior OTC CBIA Manager - APAC

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.

Our Benefits:

• Leading global brands.
• An additional 5 wellness/ leave days per year
• Health and Wellbeing benefits and programs
• Hybrid working
• Yearly bonus & reward & recognition

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.

With category leading brands such as Sensodyne, Voltaren and Centrum, built on trusted science and human understanding, and combined with our passion, knowledge and expertise, we’re uniquely placed to do this and to grow a strong, successful business.

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

About the role

As Consumer Business Insights & Analytics (CBIA) Lead for the APAC OTC Category, you will be responsible for driving the overall impact of combined insights and analytics capabilities to accelerate business performance. This role will focus on OTC brands including Panadol, Advil, and Voltaren, supporting the ANZ market while also contributing to broader APAC initiatives.

Sitting within the APAC CBIA team and reporting directly to the Head of APAC CBIA, you will lead a team of one, guiding them to deliver impactful insights and analytics that inform strategic decisions across the organisation.

You will play a key role in shaping the strategy and learning agenda, driving innovation development, and embedding deep human and market understanding. Through this, you will help unlock consumer and customer-led opportunities, foster profitable growth, and build industry-leading thinking within the CBIA function across both ANZ and the wider APAC region

Key responsibilities

• Determine insight needs and research priorities for APAC OTC Category, in collaboration with APAC Category Head
• Full ownership and accountability for the creation and delivery of the APAC OTC Category insight services (Predominantly focused on wider Asia) including Innovation Development, Connections development, white space identification, brand and activity performance & understanding as well as leveraging the power of analytics, both traditional and digital, to drive impactful & influence decision-making
• Lead the identification of future growth opportunities through landscape and trend analysis across Categories as well as leveraging traditional and digital analytics to understand and exploit areas of growth
• Inspire and steer product & commercial innovation
• Leverage deep experience in I&A to craft growth-driving insight and recommendations to the APAC Category Leadership Team and APAC CBIA Leadership Team from a broad range of Insight, Analytics and Digital Analytics methodologies
• Play a critical role as member of the CBIA Leadership Team, helping to establish industry-leading thinking across the business as a senior leader in CBIA

Why you?

Basic Qualifications:

• Significant proven experience in business insights and analytics within OTC/ consumer goods industry
• Extensive experience and understanding from working within a commercial environment, specifically within the creation and application of insights & analytics for growth
• Strong track record of partnering with commercial/Function teams to achieve business objectives
• Experience in driving innovation development and evaluation based on deep consumer, shopper, and expert understanding
• Demonstrable experience operating within a leadership team, with proven experience in leading and developing high-performing teams
• Demonstrated ability to lead complex projects with successful outcomes, within a matrix organisation
• Experience working within, or exposure to, the APAC region, either directly or indirectly, is highly valued, beyond a sole focus on the ANZ market.

Preferred Qualifications:

• A track record of transforming capabilities and embedding world-class practices within an insights function
• Ability to enable and drive change – resilience and tenacity
• Degree in Marketing, Business, Analytics, or a related discipline

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion.

At Haleon we embrace our diverse workforce by creating an inclusive environment that celebrates our unique perspectives, generates curiosity to create unmatched understanding of each other, and promotes fair and equitable outcomes for everyone.

We’re striving to create a climate where we celebrate our diversity in all forms by treating each other with respect, listening to different viewpoints, supporting our communities, and creating a workplace where your authentic self belongs and thrives.

We believe in an agile working culture for all our roles. If flexibility is important to you, we encourage you to explore with our hiring team what the opportunities are.

Please note to be eligible for this position you must have Australian work rights

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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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If you require a reasonable adjustment or accommodation or other assistance to apply for a job at Haleon at any stage of the application process, please let your recruiter know by providing them with a description of specific adjustments you are requesting. We’ll provide all reasonable adjustments to support you throughout the recruitment process and treat all information you provide us in confidence. 

Note to candidates

The Haleon recruitment team will contact you using a Haleon email account (@haleon.com). If you are not sure whether the email you received is from Haleon, please get in touch.