About the Role
Lead selected strategic, cross-functional innovation and maintenance initiative projects, such as new product development, packaging changes, new product claims, key process improvements, and visual brand upgrades, to drive delivery of business goals.
Responsibilities
- Develop proficiency in delivering innovation projects.
- Manage country-level launch details.
- Model HALEON culture.
- Apply PM best practices on projects and support overall business capability building.
- Partner effectively with the Project Accountable Lead, providing confidence and competence to drive accountability.
- Develop proficiency in driving resolution of team conflicts through skilled negotiation and diplomacy, elevating to accountable functional leaders as necessary.
- Foster an environment of enthusiasm, accountability, and teamwork, and help reward and celebrate achievements.
- Be accountable for building the project team (functions, people) upon project approval, partnering closely with cross-functional leadership.
- Guide core teams to ensure timely decision making, effective stakeholder communication, adherence to applicable processes, contingency planning, and execution.
- Be accountable for assuring a clear project scope and strategy, aligned resource needs, and comprehensive spend forecasts.
- Develop and maintain comprehensive timelines in the PPM system with cross-functional input and limited guidance, integrating key functional deliverables and local market launch activities, considering dependencies and resource requirements.
- Facilitate functional area’s probability of success assessments in support of portfolio pipeline activities.
- Develop proficiency in identifying issues and driving resolution with guidance, assuring comprehensive risk assessment and mitigation plans are in place for all projects.
- Ensure significant changes to the aligned business case are communicated rapidly and efficiently to appropriate leadership via the existing change control process.
- Assure accuracy of assigned projects’ content in the PPM system, working closely with data owners from the cross-functional project team.
- Align and deliver all key project milestones to support appropriate metrics.
- Co-drive gate readiness, partnering closely with the Project Accountable Lead and actioning any gate meeting outcomes with the broader project team.
- Conduct lessons learned with project teams, document, and assure dissemination to the organization as best practice.
- Co-develop, align, and track project budget, rapidly communicating variance.
Requirements
- Minimum 3 years of experience in Marketing, Supply Chain, or R&D including Project Management in a consumer healthcare environment or related area (e.g., CPG, pharmaceutical, etc.).
Experience Level
- 3 years of experience
About the Company
- Haleon is a purpose-driven, world-class consumer company putting everyday health in the hands of millions.
- Our trusted portfolio of brands – including Sensodyne®, Panadol®, Advil®, Voltaren®, Theraflu®, Otrivin®, and Centrum® – lead in resilient and growing categories.
- We have a unique blend of deep human understanding and trusted science.
- We operate with a Win as One strategy, putting our purpose – to deliver better everyday health with humanity – at the heart of everything we do.
- We foster an agile, performance-focused culture.
Equal Opportunity
- Haleon is committed to mobilizing our purpose in a way that represents the diverse consumers and communities who rely on our brands every day.
- We strive to create an inclusive culture where different backgrounds and views are valued and respected.
- We aim for Haleon to be a place where all employees feel they truly belong.
- Personal information shared during the application process is voluntary and used to meet regulatory and reporting obligations, and to support the development, refinement, and execution of inclusion and belonging programs.
- Personal information provided will be kept confidential, used only for legitimate business purposes, and will never be used in making any employment decisions.
- 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.
- We will provide all reasonable adjustments to support you throughout the recruitment process and treat all information you provide us in confidence.
