Team Leader Walgreens

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.

The Walgreens Team Leader is the senior commercial leader responsible for Haleon’s relationship and business performance with Walgreens. Based in Deerfield, Illinois, this role leads the cross-functional Haleon team managing every aspect of the Walgreens business, translating Haleon and customer strategies into an integrated growth agenda that delivers sustainable sales, profit, share, and organizational capability.

The role serves as Haleon’s primary senior point of contact for Walgreens, builds trusted relationships across the customer organization, and mobilizes Sales, Category Management, Shopper Marketing, Revenue Growth Management, Supply Chain, Finance, Insights, Digital Commerce, and Brand teams around shared priorities. The Team Leader will develop talent, ensure disciplined execution, and represent the Walgreens business within Haleon’s leadership forums.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the Walgreens business: Own the total customer strategy, annual joint business plan, financial delivery, forecast, trade investment, and performance management across Haleon’s portfolio.
• Shape a customer-centered growth agenda: Translate Walgreens’ priorities, shopper needs, category dynamics, and Haleon brand strategies into differentiated omnichannel plans that create value for both organizations.
• Build strategic customer relationships: Establish trusted partnerships with senior Walgreens leaders and key decision-makers across merchandising, pharmacy, marketing, digital, operations, and supply chain.
• Deliver commercial results: Drive net sales, market share, gross profit, trade return, distribution, assortment, pricing, promotion, in-stock performance, and digital execution.
• Lead negotiations: Set negotiation strategy and guardrails, align internal stakeholders, and secure sustainable agreements that balance customer objectives with Haleon’s financial and strategic priorities.
• Mobilize the enterprise: Lead a high-performing, cross-functional customer team with clear priorities, decision rights, accountability, and operating rhythms.
• Accelerate omnichannel execution: Integrate store, digital, media, and shopper activation plans to improve conversion, visibility, availability, and the consumer experience.
• Strengthen business planning: Use customer, consumer, category, financial, and competitive insights to identify risks and opportunities, create scenarios, and recommend decisive actions.
• Develop people and capability: Coach, inspire, and develop team members; build succession plans; and foster an inclusive, accountable, and collaborative culture.
• Manage risk and governance: Ensure customer plans and commercial practices meet Haleon’s policies, controls, and standards while proactively addressing service, inventory, financial, and reputational risks.

Leadership Expectations

• Sets a compelling vision and converts strategy into focused action.
• Leads through influence across a complex matrix and creates alignment among diverse stakeholders.
• Balances long-term partnership building with near-term commercial delivery.
• Demonstrates sound judgment, executive presence, resilience, and ownership.
• Uses data and insights to challenge assumptions and make clear, timely decisions.
• Creates an environment in which people can perform, grow, and contribute their best work.

Location: Deerfield, IL (Hybrid - 3 days onsite per week)

Why you?

Basic Qualifications:

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

• Bachelor’s degree
• Significant progressive experience in customer leadership, sales, commercial strategy, or a related discipline within consumer health, consumer packaged goods, retail, or an adjacent industry.
• Demonstrated success leading a large, complex strategic customer and delivering sustained profitable growth.
• Strong knowledge of U.S. drug retail, category management, revenue growth management, joint business planning, and omnichannel commerce.
• Proven experience leading and developing teams and influencing cross-functional partners at senior levels.
• Strong financial acumen, negotiation capability, analytical thinking, communication skills, and executive presence.
• Ability to work from Deerfield, Illinois, with travel as required to support customer and business needs.

Preferred Qualifications:

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

• Advanced Degree

Measures of Success

• Achievement of net sales, profit, share, and trade investment objectives.
• Strength and depth of the strategic partnership with Walgreens.
• Quality and execution of the joint business plan and key growth initiatives.
• Improvement in assortment, distribution, in-stock performance, digital execution, and shopper outcomes.
• Accuracy of forecasts and effectiveness of issue and opportunity management.
• Engagement, development, retention, and succession readiness of the Haleon Walgreens team.

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

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’ 

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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.

Who are we?

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.