Partnership Director

Haleon • Warren Township, NJ

2d

About The Position

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.

Requirements

• 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.

Nice To Haves

• MBA/Masters Degree

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.

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.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Director