Head of Consumer Sciences and Product Intelligence

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. Hello. We’re Haleon. A new world-leading consumer health company. Shaped by all who join us. Together, we’re improving everyday health for billions of people. By growing and innovating our global portfolio of category-leading brands – including Sensodyne, Panadol, Advil, Voltaren, Theraflu, Otrivin, and Centrum – through a unique combination of deep human understanding and trusted science. What’s more, we’re achieving it in a company that we’re in control of. In an environment that we’re co-creating. And a culture that’s uniquely ours. Care to join us. It isn’t a question.With category leading brands such as Sensodyne, Voltaren and Centrum, built on trusted science and human understanding, and combined with our passion, knowledge and expertise, we’re uniquely placed to do this and to grow a strong, successful business.This is an exciting time to join us and help shape the future. It’s an opportunity to be part of something special.**About the role – Head of Consumer Sciences and Product Intelligence (CSPI)**The head of CSPI is a critical enterprise leader for R&D, leading for consumer first always in everything we do. Working with category and OU teams across the enterprise, the role ensures that we create, develop, deliver and review our innovations and portfolio of products to ensure they win with consumers at the point of purchase and in use, deliver meaningful and noticeable superiority that drives growth across Oral Health, OTC and Wellness.Critical elements of the role are: - Lead our R&D consumer first, always strategy: from early consumer ethnography, product stories, prototype iteration understanding, evolution & validation to objective consumer claims support and post-launch validation and reviews. - Lead the organization on what most matters in influencing consumer choice, consumption and repeat, ensuring CSPI focuses on decisions that meaningfully influence behaviour and market outcomes. - Lead decision‑led consumer and product intelligence, determining when and how testing, analytics or synthesis should be deployed to inform product, portfolio and communication decisions. - Drive a shared understanding of ideal product models through appropriate methodologies, delivering clear guidance on product attributes that deliver meaningful and noticeable superior products. - Be a key driver of superior product sensorials & experience through expert knowledge of product experience technologies (i.e. flavours, fragrances, taste masking, foaming, product feel etc) - Create and execute against our product intelligence strategy, driving an objective and systematic intelligence of the product landscape for each category. - Lead a global team of CSPI experts, driving world class capabilities, talent strategy and capability evolution. **Key Responsibilities** Integrated Product Experience and Insight Generation - Combine consumer, product, broad evidence knowledge, complaints, and market data into unified R&D insights to drive our superiority journey. - Drive clear understanding of drivers of trial, consumption, and repeat, helping drive usage of our products.…