Corporate Affairs Manager

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.

Hello. We’re Haleon. A world-leading consumer health company. Shaped by all who join us. Together, we’re improving everyday health for billions of people. By growing and innovating our global portfolio of category-leading brands – including Centrum, Sensodyne, parodontax, Theraful and many more – through a unique combination of deep human understanding and trusted science. What’s more, we’re achieving it in an environment that we’re co-creating and a culture that’s uniquely ours. Care to join us. It isn’t a question.

Are you looking for an opportunity to drive the external relations and communications strategy?  If so, this is the opportunity for you.

The key focus of Corporate Affairs Manager is to support the Haleon leadership and strategic business priorities in Korea, and the North Asia Cluster business (Korea and Japan), ensuring long-term reputation building. This role has a specific focus on Korea and will be responsible to cover Corporate Affairs needs of couple other markets in the APAC Operating Unit.

The Corporate Affairs Manager will work in close collaboration with the Head of Corporate Affairs, APAC OU in Singapore and the Head of Corporate Affairs, North Asia Cluster in Japan, drive the public relations including commercial communications, issues and media management, external stakeholder communications and internal communications in close alignment with the OU and global CA strategic priorities. It requires careful and thoughtful management of the business’ reputation through management of all external stakeholder relations – from the government to industry body, key trade associations and healthcare professionals and the media in Korea.

This role will provide YOU the opportunity to lead key activities to progress YOUR career. These responsibilities include some of the following:

• Develop and execute integrated brand communications and leverage experts/KOL for key Haleon categories  
• Work closely with key stakeholders across the business – including the in-market, cluster leadership teams, and the OU and global Corporate Affairs teams – to help shape and communicate corporate PR strategy and build trust among customers, media, employees, healthcare professionals, government stakeholders and industry regulators.
• A comprehensive and integrated approach to managing issues related to brands, ingredients, legislative and regulatory matters and sustainability – that supports the Haleon’s business strategy, objectives and priorities and protects Haleon’s reputation in Korea.
• Identify key stakeholders who are critical allies and partners in shaping Haleon’s reputation across our key categories in Korea. Work with regulatory/medical affairs/ expert and legal teams and develop strong partnerships with external stakeholders that can help advance priorities and support business growth in Korea.  
• Collaborate with OU/Cluster and global teams to develop and deliver strategic media relations and communications plans that support Haleon’s business priorities and core brands to enhance and protect the reputation of Haleon.
• Develop and execute a consistent internal communications strategy that drives employee engagement amidst a fast-changing environment working closely with HR team. 
• Lead and take a hands-on approach when necessary to organize face-to-face communications with employees such as Town Hall initiatives, workshops and prepare presentations, speeches, and other content to maximize internal and employee engagement.
• Be a part of Korea leadership Team.

Why you?

Basic Qualifications:

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

• 8-10 years’ professional experience in a Corporate/ Commercial PR role.
• Experience of internal and external communications strategy planning and delivery with a strong and demonstrable track record of success.
• Extensive knowledge, understanding of the Korea government and media landscapes and political/policy environment is required.
• Demonstrate experience in leadership, relationship management and partnership development.
• Demonstrated experience in media management, public relations, crisis and issues management.
• Strong communications skills are required – both written and verbal in Korean– as well as the ability to build trust amongst the varied relationships this role must build within and across functions and with senior management
• Strong capability in managing changing business environment and ambiguity. The individual in this role will need to have high adaptability and the ability to work flexibly across a number of priorities at the same time, whilst maintaining attention to detail to ensure quality is not compromised.

Preferred Qualifications:

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

• Exposure or experience working in matrix organization is an advantage, with the ability to manage relationships and navigate complexities across multiple businesses and cultures.
• Deep knowledge of the healthcare system and drug regulatory policies is required so that this role can be the member of the leadership team in Korea.
• Having strong overall business acumen, strong strategic thinking and execution will allow this individual to be a good partner and strong contributor to the General Manager,  Korea and the Leadership Team, while guarding and growing our brands and business.
• Excellent English language skills, apart from having native local language skills, are vital for success.

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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.

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If you require a reasonable adjustment or accommodation or other assistance to apply for a job at Haleon at any stage of the application process, please let your recruiter know by providing them with a description of specific adjustments you are requesting. We’ll provide all reasonable adjustments to support you throughout the recruitment process and treat all information you provide us in confidence. 

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.