Senior Project Manager

Welcome to Haleon. We’re a purpose-driven, world-class consumer company putting everyday health in the hands of millions. In just three years since our launch, we’ve 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 it’s 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.

• Lead key strategic, cross-functional innovation and select stewardship initiative projects - such as new product development, packaging changes, new product claims and key process improvements - to drive delivery of business goals. 

• May lead broader organizational initiatives such as capability building, select governance forums & portfolio support with guidance

Scope of Role

• Proficiency in delivering innovation projects of varying complexity.

• Proficiency in delivering assigned priority stewardship (maintenance) initiatives partnering closely with Supply Chain and R&D team members.

• For select markets, may be responsible for managing country-level launch details.

Leadership

• Role model HALEON culture.

• Co-lead efforts to embed PM best practices as part of overall business capability building.

• Strong partnership with the Project Accountable Lead, providing confidence and competence necessary to take on the most challenging objectives and drive accountability.

• 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.

Project Management

• Accountable for building 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.

• Accountable for assuring there is a clear project scope and strategy, aligned resource needs, comprehensive spend forecasts.

• Develop & maintain comprehensive timelines in PPM system with cross-functional input, by integrating key functional deliverables and local market launch activities, considering dependencies and resource requirements.

• Drives functional area’s probability of success assessments in support of portfolio pipeline activities

• Proficiency in proactively identifying issues and drive resolution, with limited guidance, and assure comprehensive risk assessment and mitigation plan is in place for all projects.

• Ensure significant changes to the aligned business case are communicated rapidly and efficiently to appropriate leadership (via existing change control process)

• Assure accuracy of assigned projects’ content in PPM system working closely with data owners from cross-functional project team.

• Align & deliver all key project milestones to support appropriate metrics.

• Drive gate readiness partnering closely with Project Accountable Lead and action any gate meeting outcomes with broader project team.

• Conduct lessons learned with project teams, document, and assure dissemination out to organization as best practice.

• Develop, align and track project budget, rapidly communicating variance.

• Project Management Certification preferred

• Proven delivery of effective project management across a range of project types and complexities.  Has held project management and/or leadership positions in organizations of comparable size

• Strong analytical skills

• Comfortable operating in situations characterized by complexity, ambiguity and high levels of uncertainty

• Understanding of all the key business processes and functions within a transnational healthcare company

• Negotiation skills and ability to influence with or without authority at levels above and below own grade level

• Ability to influence & challenge through courageous conversations

• Ability to gauge & adjust communication style to audience

• Proficiency in role modeling accountability and holding others accountable

• Proficiency in building trust with teams and stakeholders

• Understanding of business and big picture

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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. It’s important to us that Haleon is a place where all our employees feel they truly belong.
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