Senior Director, Global New Products Innovation

Location: Hybrid in Ewing, New Jersey, USA; in-person attendance required Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays, with remote work on Mondays and Fridays.

Salary: $200,600–$285,700 base salary per year, plus bonus eligibility.

Company

Church & Dwight is a consumer products company with Personal Care brands including Orajel, Trojan, First Response, Zicam, Simply Saline, RepHresh, and Replens.

What you will do

• Lead innovation strategies and multi-year product pipelines across the Personal Care portfolio.
• Develop and execute the 2030 Oral Care innovation strategy, including innovation platforms, whitespace opportunities, and scalable growth initiatives.
• Evaluate new product opportunities through consumer research, market and competitive analysis, social listening, and financial assessment.
• Translate unmet consumer needs into product propositions, concepts, claims, packaging strategies, business cases, and go-to-market plans.
• Lead innovation from opportunity identification through concept validation, commercialization, and launch execution.
• Build alignment with senior leadership while coaching teams and strengthening innovation capabilities.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree required.
• 15+ years of progressive experience, including Director-level leadership in marketing, innovation, new product development, or general management.
• Experience in consumer packaged goods, healthcare, oral care, personal care, or related consumer product categories.
• Demonstrated success developing innovation strategies and multi-year pipelines across complex, multi-brand portfolios.
• Strong consumer insights, commercialization, analytical, financial decision-making, communication, and executive presentation skills.
• Proven ability to lead cross-functional teams, influence stakeholders, develop talent, and build high-performing teams.

Nice to have

• MBA or another advanced business degree.
• Experience leading enterprise innovation portfolios across global organizations.
• Strong understanding of innovation methodologies and commercialization processes.

Culture & Benefits

• Collaborative, informal culture focused on courage, ownership, innovation, and continuous improvement.
• Medical, dental, vision, and basic life insurance.
• Paid vacation, sick time, parental leave, paid holidays, and floating holidays.
• 401(k) plan with company match and profit sharing.
• Discounted employee stock purchase plan.