Job Description

POSITION OVERVIEW

Are you passionate about building brands and growing businesses, while helping millions of people lead healthier lives? If so, then join the Pain & Sleep brand team, and work on an exciting innovation agenda for such iconic brands as Icy Hot, Aspercreme, and Unisom. Built on a strong heritage, these brands are undergoing an inspiring transformation to better serve pain and sleep sufferers. Innovation is a critical pillar of this brand reinvention, and is expected to be a significant driver of growth in the future.

RESPONSIBILITIES

Ideation & Concept Development

• Refresh innovation pipeline through concept development and consumer validation

• Closely track consumer trends to identify white space opportunities and innovation/ renovation concepts

New Product Development

• Drive concepts through new product development process all the way to launch, including project management, risk mitigation, and stakeholder management

• Lead cross-functional teams to bring concepts to market

• Manage all key commercial deliverables for innovation launch, including claims, pack design, P&L, and retailer sell story

• Provide key input to launch activation plans

Business Planning & Strategy

• Drive long-term strategy for the Pain and Sleep businesses grounded in consumer insight

• Position innovation as a critical growth driver in the annual brand planning process

• Coordinate with the global organization to ensure strategic alignment with local US needs

ROLE REQUIREMENTS

Skills

• Ability to lead through influence (across multiple functions, stakeholder groups, organizational levels, and geographies)

• Strong interpersonal skills

• Effectively lead cross-functional teams

• Strong consumer and customer orientation

• Strategic thinking, with ability to translate data and insights into actions and plans for the brand

• Strong project management/ organization skills

• Ability to multi-task and prioritize

• Strong analytical skills, with ability to make data-driven recommendations/ decisions

• Entrepreneurial spirit, with ability to independently navigate ambiguous situations to drive progress on key initiatives

Experience

• Experience bringing new products to market from white space through to launch, including new product development process, concept writing and testing, business case creation, pack design

• At least 2-4 years in brand management, specifically either in OTC/ consumer healthcare or CPG

• Bachelor’s degree from an accredited four-year college or university; MBA or equivalent preferred.

As a healthcare company and a vaccine manufacturer, Sanofi has an important responsibility to protect individual and public health. This position will require individuals to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 as part of your job responsibilities.

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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