Global Brand Innovation Lead Allegra

Job description

About the job

At Sanofi Consumer Healthcare, we have one overarching mission - to work passionately, challenging ourselves and our industry every day, to drive what we believe is the next health revolution: evolving from simply serving consumers, to helping people help themselves - bringing “Health in Your Hands”. We are building trusted & loved brands that connect with hundreds of millions of consumers worldwide, enabling better self-care for individuals and communities, while also contributing to a healthier planet. To fulfill this mission, we are embarking our consumers, our customers, healthcare professionals, and our employees in this journey because this is what will make us become the “Best Fast Moving Consumer Healthcare (FMCH) Company In & For the World”. Consumers at the heart of everything we do and we want to make a difference where it counts, driving leadership in the categories we play in: Allergy, Digestive Wellness, Pain, Physical & Mental Wellness, and Cough, Cold & Flu. To achieve this, we need strong talent who will help us shape the future of our Consumer Healthcare business and challenge our industry. We aspire to create a work environment where people can thrive, grow, and be at their best every day. We believe in operating with integrity and prioritizing the health and well-being of people and communities where we operate, working towards making a positive impact in the world.

Are you up to:

1- Define the future of the largest CHC Brand Allegra?

2- Answer unmet need of allergic sufferers delivering superior innovation that drive brand preference?

3- Join a team of passionate professionals joining forces to turn upside down the sleepy Allergy category and elevate Allegra to the undisputed #1 player?

Then continue reading about this amazing opportunity!

Placed within Global Brand Team and reporting to the Allegra Global Brand General Manager, the Global Brand Innovation Lead Allegra will be defining and executing the innovation roadmap in line with the brand strategy, financial plans, and the Strategic Plan.

Key responsibilities:

· Identify brand growth opportunities and work with cross-functional teams at a local and global level, as well as external agencies to deliver scalable, winning innovation that drives revenue, profit and share at a pace.

· Facilitate internal ideas generation with cross functional teams to develop new product ideas and create winning concepts to maintain a continuous flow of insights and ideas to strengthen our base and fuel innovation.

· Be accountable for the successful pipeline delivery through the business gate cycle and commercial targets.

· Identify portfolio simplification and optimization opportunities in cross collaboration with M&S and D2V (Design-to-Value) teams.

· Identify renovation, commercial innovation and sustainability initiatives to drive brand growth and expansion.

· Responsible for the brand innovation budget allocation among the projects, ensure transparency of spend against meaningful initiatives and trade-offs, valuing projects for financial scale, accuracy and probability of success.

· Own NPD projects from concept to launch; seeking out the optimized solution of product, pack and execution working closely with a cross-functional team (Science Hub, Finance, M&S, Legal, Procurement, etc.).

· Define launch plans in coordination with the Brand Team and Zone Brand Leads and post-launch evaluation with actionable insights to build learnings into future plans.

· Own and build the business cases through the gate process in cooperation with Finance and aligned with the innovation thresholds.

· Guarantee compliance with Sustainability KPIs.

 

About you

Education

· Graduate degree in marketing, management degree (preferable)

Experience

· 10+ years successful experience within a leading FMCG/OTC or another brand-led organization.

· Experience working in global or regional role

· Experience in brand innovation and brand-building roles

Specialized knowledge/others

· Strong bias for action, a high degree of personal accountability and an entrepreneurial spirit

· Track record of working cross-functionally and leading projects

· Strong analytical skills, comfortable digging under the surface to uncover insights, reach logical conclusions and recommend actions back to the business in a compelling way.

· Fluent English

Pursue progress, discover extraordinary

Better is out there. Better medications, better outcomes, better science. But progress doesn’t happen without people – people from different backgrounds, in different locations, doing different roles, all united by one thing: a desire to make miracles happen. So, let’s be those people.

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At Sanofi diversity and inclusion is foundational to how we operate and embedded in our Core Values. We recognize to truly tap into the richness diversity brings we must lead with inclusion and have a workplace where those differences can thrive and be leveraged to empower the lives of our colleagues, patients and customers. We respect and celebrate the diversity of our people, their backgrounds and experiences and provide equal opportunity for all.

As part of its diversity commitment, Sanofi is welcoming and integrating people with disabilities.