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INTRODUCTION

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.

ROLE AND RESPONSIBILITIES

The Innovation Portfolio Associate Manager supports the US Innovation team through analytics, reporting, and portfolio operations. This role ensures data integrity across innovation systems, translates insights into recommendations, and owns key operating processes that enable effective governance, planning, and decision‑making. This role plays a critical role in shaping innovation investment decisions by translating portfolio insights into clear recommendations for senior leadership. The role reports to the Innovation Portfolio Lead.

This role will provide YOU the opportunity to lead key activities to progress YOUR career. These responsibilities include some of the following:

Portfolio Data & Reporting

• Own integrity, completeness, and timeliness of US innovation data to enable a single source of truth.
• Incorporate governance decisions, forecast updates, and actuals into source files and reporting tools.
• Support development of dashboards and visualizations (e.g., Power BI) to monitor pipeline health and sufficiency.

Performance & Insights

• Run analyses on in‑year performance, forecasting, and long‑range planning for Innovation leadership, USLT, and HET.
• Conduct deep‑dive analyses on portfolio pain points to identify root causes and propose solutions.
• Partner with Brand and Sales to evaluate launch performance and drivers of over/under‑delivery.

Governance & Operating Rhythm

• Support execution of innovation systems, processes, and forums (e.g., Innovation Connects, iMBR).
• Own the end‑to‑end operating rhythm for iMBR, including framing topics, synthesizing insights, and ensuring governance decisions are clearly captured and executed.
• Support Innovation Leadership Team meeting planning and follow‑ups.

Financial & Operational Ownership

• Own the US Innovation multi‑brand budget, POs, and related activities to ensure responsible spend.

Leadership Behaviors

• Takes Accountability – Goes beyond to identify and embed solutions, delivering tangible change.
• Pragmatically Turns Data into Action – Uses data to create compelling proposals. Communicates succinctly and persuasively at all levels of leadership, driving new or different thinking as a result.
• Is Bold in Moving Things Forward – Stretches past comfort zone; pressure-tests the status quo and independently initiates activity with speed and urgency to yield improvement.
• Breaks Down Barriers - Works effectively across boundaries to drive productive, timely outcomes.
• Do What Matters Most – Priorities effectively; can separate “nice to have” from “critical. Outcome vs. activity-focused; ensure initiatives are adopted and embedded.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

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

• Bachelor’s degree
• 3+ years of experience in marketing, brand management, innovation, finance, or strategy within consumer goods, OTC, or health/wellness industries.
• Experience with P&L or budget management, project management, and/or business development.
• Ability to lead within a matrix organization across multiple functions.
• Strong analytical skills with the ability to synthesize complex inputs into clear insights and recommendations.
• Strong communicator and connector, able to work effectively across levels and functions.
• Strong to advanced Excel skills
• Experience working with PowerBI (Intermediate)

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

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

• Experience in any / multiple of: CPG sales, advertising/media planning, profit and loss analysis, market data analysis (e.g., Nielsen / Circana).
• Experience supporting innovation or portfolio management workstreams.
• Action‑oriented and accountable with a proactive, high‑energy approach.
• Change champion who helps bring others along through transformation.
• Strong team player with demonstrated effectiveness in matrix environments.

LOCATION

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

COMPENSATION

The salary range for this role is 115,765 - 144,706 USD + bonus.

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

2026-04-15

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.

Please note that if you are a US Licensed Healthcare Professional or Healthcare Professional as defined by the laws of the state issuing your license, Haleon may be required to capture and report expenses Haleon incurs, on your behalf, in the event you are afforded an interview for employment. This capture of applicable transfers of value is necessary to ensure Haleon’s compliance to all federal and state US Transparency requirements.

Accommodation Requests

If you require a reasonable accommodation or other assistance to apply for a job at Haleon at any stage of the application process, please contact us by sending an email to HR.AmericasSC-CS@haleon.com. Please include the following in your email: 

Use subject line: ‘Haleon Careers: Job Accommodation Request’ 

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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.