Marketing Director Listerine, Essential Health

Kenvue is currently recruiting for:

Marketing Director, Listerine - Essential Health

This position reports to The Global Brand Leader, Listerine & Wound Care, Essential Health and is based at Skillman, NJ/Summit, NJ

Who we are

At Kenvue, we realize the extraordinary power of everyday care. Built on over a century of heritage and rooted in science, we're the house of iconic brands - including Neutrogena, Aveeno, Tylenol, Listerine, Johnson's and BAND-AID Brand Adhesive Bandages that you already know and love. Science is our passion; care is our talent. Our global team is made up of ~ 22,000 diverse and brilliant people, passionate about insights, innovation and committed to delivering the best products to our customers. With expertise and empathy, being a Kenvuer means having the power to impact the life of millions of people every day. We put people first, care fiercely, earn trust with science and solve with courage - and have brilliant opportunities waiting for you! Join us in shaping our future-and yours. For more information, click here.

Role reports to: The Global Brand Leader, Listerine &Wound Care, Essential Health

Location: Kenvue's corporate headquarters is currently located in Skillman NJ, but is scheduled to move to Summit, NJ in or around early 2025.

Travel %: 20%

Pay: Annual base salary for new hires in this position ranges from $137,000 t0 $235,750 This takes into account a number of factors including work location, the candidate's skills, experience, education level & other job-related factors.

What you will do

We are looking for a talent to join the EH Growth Team based in Summit, USA, as Marketing Director for Listerine, EH. The Marketing Director will lead and builds the 3YOP Innovation Pipeline Vision, strategy and plans to realize the extraordinary power of everyday care through the Listerine Brand Development Team with strong outside in focus. The Marketing Director will provide leadership for a cross-functional team of R&D, supply chain, packaging engineering, Design, and marketing leads to develop innovation growth plans based on consumer, category, and competitive data and insights.

Key Responsibilities

Brand & connections excellence:

• Partners with the Listerine Brand Development Team to help build a globally a consistent and distinctive brand that meets and advances the category prototype in close collaboration with key functions in Kenvue, especially the Scientific Organization, Technology, Supply Chain and regional Commercial Organizations.

• Advances Science of Brand Building capabilities in Kenvue making it a strong organizational muscle.

Leadership foundations:

• Member of the Listerine growth team, defining priority workstreams globally.

• Ensuring strong collaboration & participation in Global Growth forum as per defined cadence.

• Helps build the 3YOP Vision & strategy and plans to realize the extraordinary power of everyday care through the Listerine Brand Development Team with strong outside in focus:

• Shared accountability for business performance including NTS, GP & Share with a strong must win across the BMCs.

Innovation and portfolio excellence

• Delivers globally a consistent and distinctive innovation pipeline that meet and advances the category prototype in close collaboration with key functions in Kenvue, especially the Scientific Organization, Technology, Supply Chain and regional Commercial Organizations.

• Delivers the global brand pipeline ensuring sufficiency and freshness needs met for the BMCs.

• Delivers winning innovation launches plans through strong collaboration with the BMCs based on consumer needs. Develops and ensure the implementation of consistent and aligned global innovations together with launch playbooks: content, playbooks (Influencer/HCP/Shopper) consistent with SOBG principles. Delivers through the BMCs and rolls out to rest of world through the deployment teams.

Putting our people first:

• Brings the Kenvue Promise to life

• Grooms and develops the segment talent of the future (and Brand Development Team) and ensures the team composition reflects the diversity of the communities and consumers we serve.

• Coach, inspire and develop the team, ensuring the team composition reflects the diversity of the communities and consumers we serve.

What we are looking for

Required Qualifications

• A minimum of a Bachelor's degree in marketing, or related field; Masters degree a plus

• 10 years of Progressive experience developing and executing successful brand strategies, innovation, and operations, with a track record of driving business growth and profitability in the consumer health industry.

• Experience in setting a vision and executing in a similar integrated brand leadership role within a consumer-packaged goods organization, preferably with a breadth of functional and/or industry experience.

• Experience working in a global capacity & collaborating with regional teams.

• Evidence of leading & growing a large global brand with meaningful sales outside of US.

• Strong track record of success working with local markets

• Evidence of having shaped and landed strategic thinking in a complex/multi-factorial environment making the complex simple.

• Evidence of collaborative shaping with clarity & impact cutting through swirl not afraid to make unpopular decisions.

• Experience & Influence in leading global E2E cross functional teams.

• Demonstrated business and cultural understanding of the local markets/regions we anticipate will fuel growth substantial experience working with and managing global teams.

• Demonstrated experience managing E2E innovation processes and global pipeline development (including creation of breakthrough and/or disruptive innovation) resulting in sustained global brand growth.

• Proven experience in managing the complexity of working across numerous time zones, influencing senior level stakeholders, and managing & inspiring team members across various levels who are not direct reports.

• Coaching/mentoring skills to develop marketers is required.

• Experience working with R&D, Market Research, Communications Agencies, Finance, Sales and Project Management is required.

• Ability to travel up to 20%

Desired Qualifications

• Experience working with Legal, Regulatory, and global partners is preferred.

What's in it for you

• Annual base salary for new hires in this position ranges from $137,000 t0 $235,750 This takes into account a number of factors including work location, the candidate's skills, experience, education level & other job-related factors.

• Competitive Total Rewards Package*

• Paid Company Holidays, Paid Vacation, Volunteer Time & More!

• Learning & Development Opportunities

• Employee Resource Groups

• This list could vary based on location/region

• Note: Total Rewards at Kenvue include salary, bonus (if applicable) and benefits. Your Talent Access Partner will be able to share more about our total rewards offerings and the specific salary range for the relevant location(s) during the recruitment & hiring process.

Kenvue is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment based on business needs, job requirements, and individual qualifications, without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, national origin, protected veteran status, or any other legally protected characteristic, and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability.

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