Sales Manager

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 Panadol, Centrum, Sensodyne, Voltaren, Otrivin, and Advil – 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.

Key Responsibilities

Our General Trade Sales Manager will plan and execute robust Go-To-Market strategies for Haleon brands. Strong sales fundamentals to drive consumption of brands using customers and shoppers’ insights. Build an effective long-term relationship with customers to deliver sustainable sales and profits growth.

• Formulate sales strategies to ensure achievement of the annual sales plan, achieve sales volume and gross to net targets
• Define Independent Drug Stores Go-To-Market strategies by customers and categories, drive effective store segmentation to maximize business ROI
• Continue to drive channel profitability and formulate strategies to maximize business and profit opportunities
• Leading team to maintain good customer partnership to implement best in class category management principles and deliver outperformed market results
• Contribute to the creation and execute the channel vision and strategy, leading the team to drive in-store excellence in all aspects
• Ensure Team KPI are properly coordinated and executed, ongoing review team performance for improvement
• Proactively to explore new channel business opportunities to maximize potential new coverage
• Responsible for building an accurate forecast for the customers based on growth opportunities and promotions
• Establish effective collaboration across functions like trade marketing, supply chain, finance etc to deliver business objectives
• Work with the merchandising team to ensure visibility and availability in the stores, execute displays and merchandising with speed and excellence. Market intelligence to understand competitive landscape and impact

Why You?

Basic Qualifications

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

• Bachelor’s degree
• 5- 8+ years' sales experience in General Trade/ Key Account Management
• Excellent communications skills
• Proficiency in MS Office application - Excel, Word, PowerPoint
• Fluency in both written and spoken English & Chinese (Cantonese & Mandarin)

Preferred Qualifications
 

If you have the following qualifications and/experience, it would be a plus:

• General Trade Experience in personal care, oral, and or nutrition categories preferred but not mandatory

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.

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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.

Adjustment or Accommodations Request

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. 

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.

Consumer healthcare company spun off from GSK, making brands like Sensodyne, Advil, and Centrum. Based in Weybridge, UK.

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