Corporate Affairs Manager, Philippines + Southeast Asia and Taiwan

Apply locations Finance Center Building

Time type: Full time

Posted on: Posted 30+ Days Ago

Job requisition id: 527180

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 Sensodyne, Panadol, Voltaren, 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 the Philippines and the wider Southeast Asia and Taiwan (SEAT) Business Unit (BU), ensuring long-term reputation building. This role has a specific focus on the Philippines and will be responsible for covering Corporate Affairs needs of a couple of other markets in SEAT.

The Corporate Affairs Manager will work in close collaboration with the Head of Corporate Affairs, Southeast Asia and Taiwan, drive the government relations, public relations, issues and media management, and internal communications in close alignment with the BU and global CA strategic priorities. It requires careful and thoughtful management of the business' reputation through management of all external stakeholder relations – from government officials to industry regulators, key trade associations and advocacy groups, and the media in the Philippines.

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 an integrated communications and corporate affairs strategy – including a comprehensive and integrated approach to managing issues related to brands, ingredients, legislative and regulatory matters, and sustainability – that supports Haleon's business strategy, objectives, and priorities and protects Haleon's reputation in the Philippines.
• Work closely with key stakeholders across the business – including the in-market leadership teams, and the BU and global Corporate Affairs teams – to help shape and communicate strategy and build trust among customers, media, employees, government stakeholders, and industry regulators.
• Work with regulatory/medical affairs and legal teams and develop strong partnerships with government officials and industry groups to lobby for favorable laws and regulations that can help advance priorities and support business growth in the Philippines.
• Identify relevant legislative and regulatory opportunities, in close collaboration with R&D and Regulatory Affairs teams, that will help the business to understand and anticipate external developments and prepare for them.
• Identify key stakeholders who are critical allies and partners in shaping Haleon's reputation across our key categories in the Philippines.
• Collaborate with BU 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.
• Lead and take a hands-on approach when necessary to organize face-to-face communications with employees such as Town Hall initiatives and prepare presentations, speeches, and other content to maximize internal and employee engagement.
• Provide counsel to the leadership team in the Philippines and the wider BU on all communications and corporate affairs activities.

Why you?

Basic Qualifications:

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

• 8-10 years' experience in a Corporate/Government Affairs role.
• Experience of internal and external communications strategy planning and delivery with a strong and demonstrable track record of success.
• Extensive knowledge and understanding of the Philippines government and media landscapes and political/policy environment is required as this role will be critical in engaging with government stakeholders, key healthcare policy decision-makers, and the media.

Preferred Qualifications:

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

• Exposure or experience in multi-market regional roles is an advantage, with the ability to manage relationships and navigate complexities across multiple countries and cultures.
• Deep knowledge of the healthcare system and drug regulatory policies is required so that this role can be the advisor to the leadership team and GM.
• Demonstrated experience in leadership, relationship management, and partnership development.
• Demonstrated experience in media management, public relations, crisis, and issues management.
• Having strong overall business acumen, strong strategic thinking, and execution will allow this individual to be a good partner and strong contributor to the GM, while guarding and growing our brands and business.
• Strong communications skills are required – both written and verbal – as well as the ability to build trust amongst the varied relationships this role must build within and across functions and with senior management.
• Excellent English language skills, apart from having native local language skills, are vital for success.
• Excellent negotiation, facilitation, and influencing skills.
• Strong capability in managing a 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.

Care to join us. Find out what life at Haleon is really like at www.haleon.com/careers/

At Haleon, we embrace our diverse workforce by creating an inclusive environment that celebrates our unique perspectives, generates curiosity to create unmatched understanding of each other, and promotes fair and equitable outcomes for everyone. We're striving to create a climate where we celebrate our diversity in all forms by treating each other with respect, listening to different viewpoints, supporting our communities, and creating a workplace where your authentic self belongs and thrives. We believe in an agile working culture for all our roles. If flexibility is important to you, we encourage you to explore with our hiring team what the opportunities are.

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