Strategic Innovation Insights Lead – Wellness (US CBIA)

Haleon; Warren Township (NJ); Hybrid; USD 149,000 - 204,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401(k) plan

Tuition reimbursement

Parental leave

Healthcare

Job summary

Haleon in Berkeley Heights, NJ, is seeking an Innovation Insights Lead to shape the wellness portfolio's growth. You will drive consumer learning strategy, partnering with Innovation, Marketing, R&D and Commercial teams to identify growth opportunities and build innovation frameworks.

The role blends consumer strategy, foresight and modern insights practices to accelerate the development of winning innovations, leveraging AI-enabled insights and agile experimentation to improve forecast accuracy

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree.
• 10+ years in innovation insights or growth strategy in CPG/healthcare.
• Experience shaping innovation strategy and whitespace opportunities.

Responsibilities

• Shape the Innovation Growth Agenda and create strategic roadmaps.
• Build a best-in-class innovation learning ecosystem.
• Lead insight-driven business decisions with multiple data sources.
• Influence across senior leadership and develop the team.

Skills

Innovation insights

Consumer strategy

Foresight

Growth strategy

Innovation consulting

Education

Bachelor's degree

Advanced degree

Tools

AI-enabled insights tools

Job description

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

We are seeking a strategic and forward-thinking Innovation Insights Lead to shape the future growth agenda for our Wellness portfolio, spanning Vitamins, Minerals & Supplements (VMS) and Digestive Health.

This leader will drive the consumer learning strategy that powers innovation, partnering across Innovation, Marketing, R&D, and Commercial teams to identify breakthrough growth opportunities, build innovation frameworks, and embed in world-class decision-making capabilities.

The role combines consumer strategy, innovation leadership, foresight, and modern insights practices to accelerate the development of winning innovations. The Innovation Insights Lead will champion new approaches to learning, leveraging advanced research methodologies, AI-enabled insights, and agile experimentation to increase confidence in innovation decisions, improve forecast accuracy, and strengthen commercial success.

Role Responsibilities

Shape the Innovation Growth Agenda

• Identify emerging consumer needs, unmet opportunities, cultural shifts, and category trends to inform long-term growth strategies.
• Build innovation frameworks, opportunity platforms, and strategic roadmaps that guide portfolio investment decisions.
• Define innovation principles, success criteria, and guardrails that improve the quality and consistency of decision making.
• Partner with senior leaders to influence innovation priorities and shape future growth platforms.

Build Best-in-Class Innovation Capabilities

• Design and evolve an end-to-end innovation learning ecosystem, including testing frameworks, stage-gates, action standards, and decision architectures.
• Establish scalable approaches to evaluating concepts, propositions, claims, product experiences, packaging, and communications.
• Advance modern consumer learning capabilities through agile experimentation, AI-enabled methodologies, and next-generation insights tools.
• Drive a culture of rapid learning, evidence-based decision making, and continuous optimization.

Lead Insight-Led Business Decisions

• Translate complex data and learning into clear, actionable recommendations that influence critical business decisions.
• Integrate multiple sources of consumer, market, and business intelligence into a holistic understanding of growth opportunities.
• Improve innovation effectiveness, forecast accuracy, and commercial outcomes through stronger consumer-centric decision making.
• Identify risks early and drive course corrections across the innovation portfolio.

Inspire Teams and Influence Across the Organization

• Lead and develop a high-performing Innovation Insights talent (1 direct report).
• Act as the voice of the consumer in senior leadership discussions.
• Build strong partnerships across global and local stakeholders to drive alignment and learning adoption.
• Establish best practices, standards, and ways of working that elevate innovation excellence across the organization.

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree.
• 10+ years of experience in innovation insights, consumer strategy, innovation consulting, foresight, or growth strategy within CPG, healthcare, wellness, or adjacent industries

Preferred Qualifications

• Advanced Degree.
• Proven experience shaping innovation strategy, portfolio growth agendas, and whitespace opportunity identification.
• Demonstrated expertise building innovation frameworks, learning systems, and stage-gate decision models.
• Experience modernizing consumer learning capabilities through agile experimentation, AI-enabled insights tools, and advanced testing approaches.
• Track record of translating emerging consumer trends and future market signals into actionable innovation platforms.

Location: This role is hybrid-based in Berkeley Heights, NJ with 3 in-office days required.

The salary range for this role is: $148,648 - $204,390 plus an 18% target 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.

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.

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.