Regional Sales Manager Cairo

Job Summary

Welcome to Haleon. Were a purpose-driven world-class consumer company putting everyday health in the hands of just three years since our launch weve 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 its 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.

Job Purpose

The Regional Sales Managerfor Greater Cairois responsible for driving commercial performance customer development and pharmacy channel growth and distributormanaged subchannels. This role leads the Greater Cairo outsourced sales team delivering revenue market share distribution and execution excellence. The position works in close alignment with the Shopper & Customer Marketing team and collaborates with Marketing Supply Chain Finance and the NRM & SFE team to ensure strategic consistency and operational excellence across all customer types.

Key Responsibilities

Commercial Leadership & Executional Excellence

• Lead the commercial agenda across Pharmacy channel distributors and distributor subchannels.
• Own revenue volume profitability and market share delivery for the mass market channel.
• Develop annual and longterm customer strategies JBPs and channel growth roadmaps.
• Ensure promotion and trade investment strategies are aligned with NRM & SFE team guidance.
• Ensure all commercial strategies are fully aligned with Shopper & Customer Marketing plans and channel priorities.

Customer & Distributor Management

• Lead strategic negotiations and commercial routines with Pharmacies
• Manage Pharmacy channel distributors ensuring capability building execution excellence and strong commercial discipline.
• Oversee distributor (subdistributors wholesalers regional chains independent stores) to ensure national coverage availability and distribution expansion.
• Build strong seniorlevel relationships with retail partners distributor leadership and key subchannel stakeholders.
• Integrate shopper insights activation plans and instore priorities into customer and distributor plans.

Sales Execution & InStore Performance

• Partner closely with the Shopper & Customer Marketing Lead to ensure flawless instore execution across visibility shelving planograms and activation priorities.
• Ensure distributor and subchannel execution is consistent with national standards.
• Monitor execution KPIs (availability share of shelf promo compliance visibility) and drive corrective actions.
• Ensure execution frameworks are aligned with NRM & SFE team recommendations.
• Translate shopper strategies into actionable sales execution plans for field teams distributors and subchannels.

Team Leadership & Capability Building

• Lead coach and develop the Sales Team fostering a highperformance customercentric culture.
• Build strong commercial capabilities across negotiation customer planning forecasting and execution excellence.
• Strengthen distributor and subchannel capability through structured routines KPIs and performance management.
• Promote crossfunctional collaboration with Shopper & Customer Marketing to ensure unified channel execution.

Forecasting Planning & Performance Management

• Own the commercial forecast for Pharmacy channel ensuring accuracy through the IBP process.
• Track performance against revenue volume and profitability targets; implement corrective actions when needed.
• Leverage insights from the NRM & SFE team to optimize promo plans trade investments and customer performance.
• Ensure full compliance with internal policies financial controls and commercial governance.
• Align customer forecasts and activation phasing with Shopper & Customer Marketing plans.

Budget & Trade Investment Management

• Manage trade investment budgets in pharmacy distributors and distributor subchannels.
• Ensure efficient allocation and ROIdriven decisionmaking.
• Evaluate customer profitability and optimize trade terms in collaboration with Finance and NRM teams.
• Ensure trade investments support shopper activation priorities and instore execution plans.

Qualifications

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelors degree or equivalent.
• Minimum 7 years of experience of Sales in pharmaceutical CHC OTC or FMCG companies with significant exposure to mass market channels. At least 2 years of Sales leadership role trade marketing key accounts experience
• Proven track record in leading customer negotiations and delivering commercial targets.
• Strong leadership skills with experience managing and developing sales teams.
• Excellent analytical financial and problemsolving capabilities.
• Strong communication influencing and relationshipbuilding skills.
• Experience working closely with Shopper & Customer Marketing and NRM & SFE teams.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in Pharmacy channel Traditional trade Modern trade channels
• Familiarity with IBP processes.
• Strong understanding of instore execution and merchandising operations.
• Experience managing distributor networks and subchannel ecosystems.

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. Its 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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Required Experience:

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