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About the Role
Provide technical leadership for innovation projects involving external manufacturing partners, ensuring manufacturing routes are technically sound, compliant, cost-conscious, and aligned with timelines and quality expectations. Lead technical visits and due diligence with manufacturing partners, identify risks, and develop recommendations. Serve as the external manufacturing focal point on innovation projects, leading end-to-end project delivery in partnership with cross-functional teams and external partners.
Responsibilities
- Act as technical lead for assigned innovation initiatives from concept through launch readiness and post-launch review.
- Plan and conduct technical visits to new and existing manufacturing partners to assess capability, capacity, process readiness, and supply robustness.
- Lead technical due diligence for licensing, buy, external manufacturing, and partner supply opportunities.
- Assess process maturity, quality, supply risk, and site readiness and documentation, recommending remediation where needed.
- Organize and lead innovation showcase workshops with manufacturing partners to identify and advance ideas.
- Manage the end-to-end execution plan for assigned innovation projects, including milestones, risks, resourcing, and governance.
- Coordinate closely with R&D, Quality, Regulatory, Procurement, Supply Chain, and external partners to ensure alignment and adherence to schedule.
- Lead sourcing cases for assigned projects and build stakeholder support for the preferred manufacturing partner network.
- Capture lessons learned from partner due diligence and project delivery to improve ways of working.
- Contribute to productivity, cost, and sustainability opportunities across the manufacturing partner network.
Requirements
- Experience in pharmaceutical, consumer healthcare, food supplement, OTC, or another related regulated manufacturing environment.
- 5+ years in project management.
- 3+ years in production or a related field.
- Proven ability to run technical assessments, due diligence, and partner or site evaluations.
- Strong project management discipline, including milestone planning, risk management, and stakeholder alignment.
- Comfortable working across complex cross-functional networks and influencing decisions without direct authority.
- Commercial awareness that connects technical choices to cost, timeline, supply continuity, and business case.
Skills
- Contract manufacturing operations
- Technology transfer
- Process scale-up
- Validation
- Packaging
- Quality systems
- Launch readiness
- Technical assessments
- Due diligence
- Partner or site evaluations
- Project management
- Milestone planning
- Risk management
- Stakeholder alignment
- Cross-functional collaboration
- Influencing without authority
- Commercial awareness
Location
- Tokyo
Work Type
- Individual contributor role
- Regional project scope
Experience Level
- 5+ years in project management
- 3+ years in production or a related field
Education Level
- Degree in a science-related field, or equivalent hands-on technical experience
About the Company
- Opella is the self-care challenger with the purest and third-largest portfolio in the Over The Counter (OTC) & Vitamins, Minerals & Supplements (VMS) market globally.
- Our mission is to bring health in people's hands by making self-care as simple as it should be.
- We have 100 loved brands, an 11,000-strong global team, 13 best-in-class manufacturing sites, and 4 specialized science and innovation development centers.
- Headquartered in France, Opella is the proud maker of many of the world’s most loved brands, including Allegra, Buscopan, Doliprane, Dulcolax, Enterogermina, Essentiale and Mucosolvan.
- As a globally certified B Corp company, we are active players in the journey towards healthier people and planet.
Equal Opportunity
- Opella values diversity in all its forms and is committed to fostering a workplace where everyone can belong and excel.
- We welcome and encourage applications from people of all backgrounds.