Wellness OU Brand Development Lead - Wellness & Digestive Health

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 Wellness OU Brand Development Lead is the R&D growth leader for OU and regional brands across the Wellness portfolio.

The role is accountable for identifying, developing and scaling growth opportunities by connecting local market needs with global R&D capabilities. The position accelerates enterprise growth through the deployment of innovation platforms, technologies, claims and evidence across markets, while enabling geographic expansion, CBEC opportunities and the globalization of successful local innovations.

The role serves as the primary bridge between Operating Units and Global R&D, ensuring Wellness innovation assets are deployed with speed, consistency and appropriate local flexibility to maximize enterprise value creation.

Role Summary: Connect global capabilities with local growth opportunities by deploying innovation platforms into local brands and scaling local successes globally, while accelerating geo-expansion and CBEC growth across the Wellness portfolio.

Key Responsibilities:

Growth Strategy & Portfolio Leadership

• Define and execute the technical growth strategy for OU and regional brands aligned with Wellness category priorities.
• Shape and prioritize the Tier 2 and Tier 3 innovation portfolio to maximize business impact and resource efficiency.
• Identify opportunities to accelerate growth through innovation, geographic expansion, and platform deployment.
• Drive investment decisions and portfolio choices that support long-term category growth.

Globalization, Scale & Asset Deployment

• Deploy global innovation platforms, technologies, claims and evidence into local and regional brands.
• Identify and scale successful local innovations across markets and geographies.
• Lead the globalization of priority Wellness brands, technical assets and growth platforms.
• Drive technology transfer and platform harmonization to accelerate delivery and reduce complexity.

CBEC & Market Expansion

• Enable premium innovation growth through Cross-Border E-Commerce (CBEC).
• Partner with APAC, China, Global and OU teams to identify and deploy scalable CBEC opportunities.
• Ensure products, claims, evidence packages and technical assets are developed for efficient market expansion.
• Build repeatable models that allow growth opportunities to be leveraged across multiple markets and brands.

Enterprise Leadership & Integration

• Serve as the primary R&D interface between OUs and Global R&D.
• Connect local growth opportunities with global technologies, capabilities and innovation platforms.
• Align cross-functional stakeholders around growth priorities and strategic opportunities.
• Influence enterprise decisions to maximize scale, impact and speed to value.

Innovation Platform Leadership

• Maximize value from existing technologies, formulations, claims, dossiers and evidence packages.
• Establish scalable technical solutions that can be deployed across multiple brands and markets.
• Balance standardization with local market needs to accelerate growth while maintaining flexibility.
• Drive enterprise-wide reuse of innovation assets to improve efficiency and impact.

People & Organizational Leadership

• Build and lead a high-performing team focused on growth, agility and enterprise thinking.
• Develop organizational capabilities required to deliver future Wellness growth ambitions.
• Foster strong collaboration across Commercial, Medical, Regulatory, Quality, Supply Chain and R&D teams.
• Champion an externally connected and consumer-focused innovation culture.

Critical Success Measures

Success in the role will be demonstrated through:

• Delivery of Tier 2 and Tier 3 innovation growth targets.
• Successful deployment of innovation platforms across multiple brands and markets.
• Acceleration of geographic expansion and CBEC opportunities.
• Increased reuse of technical assets, claims and evidence packages across the portfolio.
• Growth generated through globalized local innovations and local deployment of global technologies.
• Strong organizational capability, talent development and stakeholder engagement.

Location: Richmond, VA (Hybrid - 3 days onsite per week)

Why you?

Basic Qualifications:

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

• Bachelor's degree in Food Science, Nutrition, Chemistry, Engineering or related scientific discipline.
• 10-15+ years of leadership experience in R&D, innovation or product development.
• Demonstrated success translating consumer and business opportunities into scalable growth platforms.
• Experience operating and influencing within complex global matrix organizations.
• Strong track record of leading cross-functional teams and enterprise initiatives.
• Experience with global innovation, geographic expansion, and platform deployment.

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Preferred Qualifications:

If you have the following characteristics, it would be a plus:

• Advanced degree
• Consumer health, nutrition, wellness or FMCG experience preferred.

Leadership Profile

A strategic growth leader who:

• Thinks enterprise-first.
• Connects global capabilities with local opportunities.
• Balances long-term platform creation with near-term growth delivery.
• Influences across functions, geographies and senior stakeholder groups.
• Simplifies complexity and accelerates speed to value.
• Builds scale through deployment of platforms rather than one-off solutions.

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

2026-12-01

 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. 

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