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Job Summary: The Category Coordinator participates in the design, development, and execution of category and shopper strategy, collaborating to align brand positioning with market realities. Key Responsibilities: 1. Collaborate in defining and updating the category architecture. 2. Translate brand strategy into channel-specific action plans. 3. Generate strategic insights and recommendations for the team. 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. The **Category Coordinator** actively participates in the design, development, and execution of category and shopper strategy, closely collaborating to connect brand positioning with channel realities, consumer behavior, and commercial execution. This role contributes both to strategic framework development and tactical implementation, ensuring alignment among Marketing, Trade, Sales, and other teams to drive profitable growth and in-store differentiation. Additionally, the role serves as a reference point for insight and trend analysis, proposing improvements and business opportunities. **Key Responsibilities:** * Collaborate in defining and updating the category architecture by channel and customer type, contributing ideas and analysis to support strategic decision-making. * Translate brand strategy into channel-specific action plans, ensuring correct implementation and proposing adjustments based on results and learnings. * Develop and adapt commercial execution frameworks (Perfect Store, visibility, assortment, promotions) jointly with the manager, and lead their field deployment. * Create and update toolkits and playbooks for Trade Marketing, Go\-To\-Market, and Sales, ensuring they are practical and aligned with strategy. * Analyze shopper, competitor, and market trend data, generating strategic insights and recommendations for the manager and team. * Participate in planning and coordinating new product launches (NPIs), ensuring relevance and correct execution across defined channels. * Monitor field execution quality, evaluating results and proposing continuous improvements. * Facilitate communication and alignment among Marketing, Trade, Sales, and other teams, promoting collaboration and a shopper-focused strategic approach. * Represent category and shopper perspectives in commercial forums and planning processes, contributing strategic and operational insights. * Stay updated on channel trends and shopper needs, anticipating growth opportunities and proposing strategic initiatives. **Why YOU?** **Your Qualifications:** * Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, Economics, Marketing, or related field * EMBA or MBA or postgraduate studies in business disciplines preferred * 5+ years of experience in strategic roles within Trade Marketing, Marketing, or Category Management * Intermediate/Advanced Excel proficiency * Advanced English proficiency * Experience developing commercial execution frameworks and leading * product launches. * Proven track record collaborating with Marketing, Trade, and Sales to activate brand strategy across channels. * **Analytical and Strategic Skills:** Strategic thinking with ability to analyze financial KPIs, commercial data, market trends, and shopper insights to drive growth. * **Commercial and Omnichannel Experience:** Strong expertise in commercial skills, negotiation, trade marketing, category management, and omnichannel execution. * **Digital and eCommerce Proficiency:** Knowledge of dComm, e-commerce platforms, digital retail media, and online merchandising. * **Stakeholder Management and Work Style:** Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, with comfort working in agile, fast-paced, autonomous environments. **Do you feel this could be your next career step? Apply now!** **Job Posting End Date** 2026\-06\-03**Equal Opportunities** ----------------------- Haleon is 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.
