Haleon

Partnership Director

USA - New Jersey - Warren Full time

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.

With the marketing landscape evolving rapidly, Haleon’s ability to unlock new growth depends on bold, innovative, future‑facing partnerships. The Global Partnerships team works together with leading companies to leverage Haleon's size, scale, and investments. This collaboration aims to capitalize on their expertise, industry leadership and innovative products, particularly in areas such as data & technology, AI, creators, commerce/social commerce, and advanced measurement.

The Global Partnerships Director will lead and expand our portfolio of global strategic partners – both established and emerging – to deliver innovative, audience-centric growth opportunities.  Building on Haleon’s relationships with global partners (e.g., Google, Amazon), this role will also proactively identify and cultivate new partnerships that accelerate brand relevance, social-first engagements and commerce outcomes across markets.

The role will also support activities with our global Holding Company partners (e.g., WPP, Publicis).  Creative agency management is critical for aligning efforts with strategy, optimizing resources and ensuring quality work, standards and performance.  The Global Partnership Director will oversee performance management, drive a creative effectiveness agenda, advance AI initiatives and manage the relationship through a clearly defined engagement plan.

This person will work closely with cross-functional teams, partnering with the Haleon Growth Office, Global Category Teams, Operating Unit marketing teams, Procurement, Compliance, Legal, and Tech, to ensure holistic plans are delivered and tracked against KPIs for each partner.

Key responsibilities

  • Develop key external partnership strategies, aligned with business objectives, to deliver scaled value through supporting Haleon’s Growth agenda, Category priorities and marketing effectiveness ambitions

  • Ensure all partnerships—even experimental ones—ladder up to category growth strategies, priority audiences, and brand “big bets”. 

  • Manage Global JBP budget aggregation, global negotiations and the day-to-day activities in partnership with our agency team

  • Proactively build a diversified, future-fit partnership portfolio that supports Haleon's growth goals and shifting consumer behaviors, focusing on new growth audiences, emerging platforms, social-first / creator ecosystems, and sports & entertainment properties.

  • Identify scalable category-specific or cross-category initiatives, and drive focused pilots with actionable learnings, facilitating knowledge sharing to enable broader scaling.

  • Establish and enforce creative standards that raise quality, accelerate effectiveness, and inspire bolder ideas

  • Direct creative standards to unlock measurable growth, prioritizing social‑first, creator, retail media, and AI‑enabled innovations

  • Ensure partner accountability for delivering on agreed objectives/KPIs.  Support performance management & tracking against JBP and Agency KPIs through the year, demonstrating value of these core partnerships back to the business.

  • Lead high-impact Executive Engagements for senior leaders & capability/learning opportunities for cross-functional teams  

  • Support Haleon’s Responsible Marketing ambitions including Health Inclusivity and Health Accessibility through partnership programs and collaborations.

Why you?

Basic Qualifications:

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

  • Bachelors Degree

  • 15+ years of experience working as a global or local Marketing leader, agency or marketing partner

  • Experience negotiating and delivering value from strategic marketing partnerships including media owners and agencies

  • Partner management, negotiation and contracting experience

  • Performance/data-driven marketing/digital commercial experience

  • Proven capability working within digital ecosystems (ie., DV360, DSPs, SSPs), as well as emerging platforms, audience trends, social first initiatives, and creator/influencer collaborations

  • Demonstrable experience building high trust, high performance agency relationships that improve creative quality, speed, and efficiency across markets.

Preferred Qualifications:

If you have the following characteristics, it would be a plus:

  • MBA/Masters Degree

 The salary range for this role is $194,925 - $268,021 USD annually + bonus

Benefits

Haleon offers a robust Total Reward package that consists of competitive pay and a comprehensive benefits program.  This includes a generous 401(k) plan, tuition reimbursement and time off programs including 6 months paid parental leave.  On day one, you are eligible for benefits, including our healthcare programs where the company pays for the majority of your medical coverage for you and your family.  We also offer the opportunity to receive a discretionary bonus based on the achievement of key business performance and other incentive/recognition programs as part of the offering.

 

 

 

Job Posting End Date

2026-04-03

 

 

 

 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.

 

 

 

Please note that if you are a US Licensed Healthcare Professional or Healthcare Professional as defined by the laws of the state issuing your license, Haleon may be required to capture and report expenses Haleon incurs, on your behalf, in the event you are afforded an interview for employment. This capture of applicable transfers of value is necessary to ensure Haleon’s compliance to all federal and state US Transparency requirements.

 

 

 

Accommodation Requests

If you require a reasonable accommodation or other assistance to apply for a job at Haleon at any stage of the application process, please contact us by sending an email to HR.AmericasSC-CS@haleon.com. Please include the following in your email: 

Use subject line: ‘Haleon Careers: Job Accommodation Request’ 

Your Name and contact information 

Requisition ID and Job Title you are interested in 

Location of Requisition (city/state or province/country) 

Description of specific accommodation you are requesting 

Please note: Resumes, CVs, or other requests outside of accommodation support submitted to this email box will not be accepted.

 

 

 

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.