Global Brand Innovation Lead, Dulcolax

Global Brand Innovation Lead, Dulcolax

Location: Morristown, NJ

About the Job

Join our dynamic team as we seek a passionate innovator to drive our global brand forward.  We’re on the lookout for a strategic thinker with a flair for innovation all within a customer centric culture.  If you’re ready to shape the future of our brand on a global scale, this is your opportunity to make an impact.

At Sanofi Consumer Healthcare, we build trusted and loved brands that connect with hundreds of millions of consumers worldwide. Our mission is to enable better self-care for individuals and communities, while also contributing to a healthier planet. We strive to act as a force for good by integrating sustainability along our business and employees’ mission and operate responsibly from both a social and environmental point of view. To achieve this, we need people who can shape the future of our business and help us on our journey to becoming the best fast-moving consumer healthcare company in and for the world.

Main 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

• Graduate degree in marketing, management degree (preferable)
• 10+ years successful experience within a leading FMCG 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

Why choose us?

• Bring the miracles of science to life alongside a supportive, future-focused team.
• Discover endless opportunities to grow your talent and drive your career, whether it’s through a promotion or lateral move, at home or internationally.
• Enjoy a thoughtful, well-crafted rewards package that recognizes your contribution and amplifies your impact.
• Take good care of yourself and your family, with a wide range of health and wellbeing benefits including high-quality healthcare, prevention and wellness programs and at least 14 weeks’ gender-neutral parental leave.
• You will discover the depth of potential you can unleash when you enter a world-leading environment, expertly designed to support you making a difference.
• You will be offered the chance to be at the forefront of change, driving meaningful impact for brands and consumers alike, while continuously challenging yourself to think creatively and strategically.

Sanofi Inc. and its U.S. affiliates are Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action employers committed to a culturally diverse workforce. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race; color; creed; religion; national origin; age; ancestry; nationality; marital, domestic partnership or civil union status; sex, gender, gender identity or expression; affectional or sexual orientation; disability; veteran or military status or liability for military status; domestic violence victim status; atypical cellular or blood trait; genetic information (including the refusal to submit to genetic testing) or any other characteristic protected by law.

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