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.

Why you?

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.

Benefits

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.

Job Posting End Date
2026-10-15