[axr] Sales & Marketing Collective: September 2026

Welcome to the September edition of the Sales & Marketing Collective, from [axr] Recruitment & Search.

Three of this month's six senior appointments were step-ups into the top seat: James Bailey became CEO of AGRANA Australia, Jamie Henderson became Managing Director of CJ Foods Oceania, and Annabel Harris became GM - Beauty at ZURU Edge. Across 27 moves, sales edged marketing 11 to 10. Manassen Foods and SC Johnson each made two leadership hires, while Kellanova, Unilever and v2food each lost two people. Consumer health was the busiest part of marketing, with brand roles filled at Cipla, PharmaCare and Key Pharmaceuticals.

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SC Johnson has appointed Melissa Sherry as Marketing Director ANZ, following the Chief Marketing Officer role at McPherson's. It is one of two SC Johnson hires this month.
Swa Hayes takes sales leadership from building products into food, moving from Head of Sales ANZ at VELUX to Sales Director at Mutti Australia.
Manassen Foods has brought in Emma Quigley as Head of Category, after working as Sales Director AU at Koala. Manassen also added a new Sales Director this month (see below).
Two general managers stepped up to lead businesses. James Bailey moves from General Manager at Seven Miles Coffee Roasters to CEO of AGRANA Australia. Jamie Henderson goes from General Manager - Commercial Excellence at Inghams to Managing Director of CJ Foods Oceania.
Stepping up from Head of Category - Beauty & Wellbeing at Unilever, Annabel Harris is now GM - Beauty at ZURU Edge.

Manassen Foods made its second senior commercial hire with Grant Milmlow, who joins as Sales Director. Grant previously held the Head of Strategy & Planning & GM New Zealand role at Kellanova.
Lisa Maguire steps up from National Business Manager - Woolworths at Henkel to Head of Grocery at Clorox.
SC Johnson has appointed Audrey Czajkowski as Head of Sales, Independents & Accelerator Channels, coming from a Senior NBM role at Beiersdorf.
Pierre Fabre Laboratories and Shuelke each added a National Business Manager. Tharaka Punchihewa joins Pierre Fabre after working as Customer Manager - Chemist Warehouse at Unilever. Kirsten Wanless joins Shuelke from a National Field Sales Manager role at Vitaco.
Rodd Keevil joins H2coco as National Sales Manager, from Head of Sales - OOH at Soulfresh.
Data meets customer development at Hill's Pet Nutrition, where Kate Bennett joins as Omni Customer Development Executive after working as a Senior Data Specialist at ATOM.
VIDA GLOW has added Tarryn Arundel as National Account Manager, the same title Tarryn held at Self Care Corporation.
From Food Service Manager at v2food, Matthew Miles moves to DON KRC as Distributor Channel Manager.
Two account leaders kept their retailer focus while changing suppliers. Miles Nicholson moves from NAM - Coles at Primo Foods to NBM - Coles at Australian Vintage. Angela Hornett steps up from NAM - WW at Kellanova to SNAM - WW at Ferrero.

Vanessa Lowien steps up from Marketing Capability Lead at Blackmores to Head of Marketing at The LittleOak Company.
Pharma and consumer health brand teams were active this month:
Radhika Desai moved from Product Manager at Dr Reddy's Laboratories to Associate Brand Manager at Cipla Australia & New Zealand.
Shweta Bagrecha joined Key Pharmaceuticals as Brand Manager from Brand Manager - Telfast at Opella.
Monica Sayad moved from Biogen to PharmaCare Laboratories as Digital Marketing Manager.
Skincare to toys: Brittany Lawrence has gone from Brand Manager ANZ Skincare & OTC at Galderma to Brand Manager at LEGO.
Stan has hired Alexandra Riley as Sports Marketing Manager. Alexandra comes from Football Australia, most recently as Brand Marketing Manager, AFC Women's Asian Cup.
Madison Cloke joins PUMA Group as Senior Marketing Manager - Run/Train, from Global Marketing Manager at 2XU.
Moving up from Assistant Brand Manager Marketing at Pernod Ricard, Jon Creswell is now Head of Trade Marketing at Thirsty Group.
Cartology has brought in Ayushi Shah as Marketing Integration Manager, after working as Channel Activation Manager at v2food.
NPD planning is the new remit for Kevin Condon, who moves from Product & Markets Lead at Vow to NPD Planning Lead & Project Manager at EHP Labs.