CBIA Lead - ISC

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.

About the role 

As Consumer Business Insights & Analytics (CBIA) Lead for India Sub-Continent, you will be responsible to drive the overall power of combined Insight and Analytics capabilities to accelerate business performance through identified consumer and customer-led opportunities resulting in strong growth for Haleon.

This role reports directly to the Head of CBIA. You will lead a team of 5 individuals, guiding them to deliver impactful insights and analytics that inform strategic decisions across the organization.

You will be instrumental in shaping the strategy and learning agenda, driving innovation development, and embedding deep human and market understanding to foster profitable growth and establish industry-leading thinking within the CBIA function.  

Key responsibilities

• Determine insight needs and research priorities, in collaboration with Operating Unit President, Head of Categories, Head of Portfolio & Performance Management, and Functions.
• Full ownership and accountability for the creation and delivery of the insight services 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, in collaboration with Category CBIA Leads.
• Lead key agency relationships in the area, creating senior level engagement and strategic level thinking to support and drive growth.
• Leverage deep experience in I&A to craft growth-driving insight and recommendations to the Operating Unit LT and Global CBIA LT from a broad range of Insight, Analytics and Digital Analytics methodologies. 
• Be a key advisor and business partner for OU President, Head of Portfolio & Performance Management, Head of Categories and Brand Leads by ensuring that Deep Human Understanding & Deep Market Understanding are at the heart of all OU decisions. 
• Play a critical role as member of the Global CBIA Leadership Team, helping to establish industry-leading thinking across the business as a senior leader in CBIA. 

Additional responsibilities 

• Lead and manage the team ensuring prioritization and focus against key strategic business drivers and collation of team output to influence and drive decision-making at local and regional management level.
• Develop talent pipeline for CBIA ensuring all team members are performing to a high level of performance.  

Why you?

Basic Qualifications:

• Significant proven experience in business insights and analytics in the 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 organization
• Highly developed commercial acumen with experience in P&L/budget management

Preferred Qualifications: .

• A track record of transforming capabilities and embedding world-class practices within an insights function
• Demonstrated success in managing agency relationships and fostering senior-level engagement
• Ability to enable and drive change – resilience and tenacity 

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. 

 Job Posting End Date

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.

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. 

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.