Project Manager

Hello. We’re Haleon—a new world-leading consumer health company, shaped by all who join us. Together, we’re improving everyday health for billions of people by growing and innovating our global portfolio of category-leading brands—including Voltaren, Sensodyne, Dr. Best, VitaSprint, Fenistil, Otriven, and Centrum—through a unique combination of deep human understanding and trusted science. What’s more, we’re achieving this in a company that we control, in an environment we’re co-creating, and a culture that’s uniquely ours.

This is an exciting time to join us and help shape the future.

Role Description

Lead selected strategic, cross-functional innovation projects - such as new product development, packaging changes, new product claims, key process improvements and visual brand upgrades - to drive delivery of business goals.

Scope of Role
- Developing proficiency in delivering innovation projects of medium complexity.
- For select markets, may be responsible for managing country-level launch details.

Leadership
- Role model HALEON Win as One behaviors.
- Applies PM best practices on projects and supports overall business capability building.
- Foster an environment of performance, enthusiasm, accountability and teamwork, and help reward and celebrate achievements.
- Developing proficiency in driving resolution of team conflicts through skilled negotiation and diplomacy, elevating to accountable functional leaders as necessary.

Project Management
- Close partnership with the Project Accountable Lead (PAL), instilling confidence and providing competence necessary to take on challenging project objectives and drive accountability.
- Build project team (functions, people) upon project approval, partnering closely with cross-functional leadership, seeking manager guidance as needed.
- Guide core teams to ensure timely decision making, effective stakeholder communication, adherence to applicable processes, contingency planning and execution.
- Assure there is a clear project scope and strategy and aligned resource needs.
- Develop (via Joint Planning Session) & maintain comprehensive timelines in PPM system with cross-functional input & limited guidance, by 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.
- Assure comprehensive risk assessments 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 Request 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.
- Co-drive gate readiness partnering closely with Project Accountable Lead and action any gate meeting outcomes with broader project team.
- Conduct After Action Review (AAR) with project teams, document, and assure dissemination out to organization as best practice.

Knowledge
- 3 years of experience in R&D, Supply Chain or Marketing including Project Management in a Consumer Healthcare environment or related area (e.g. pharmaceutical, medical device).
- Experience in project management within OTC, Rx, Medical Device or similar project types.
- Strong analytical, problem-solving skills.
- Pro-active, curious and entrepreneurial mindset.
- Able to listen to diverse opinions and stand up for best interest of the project.
- Strong influencing and negotiation skills without authority.
- Comfortable operating in situations - with leadership guidance - characterized by complexity, ambiguity and high levels of uncertainty.
- Understanding of key business processes and functions within a transnational healthcare company.

At Haleon we embrace our diverse workforce by creating an inclusive environment that celebrates our unique perspectives, generates curiosity to create unmatched understanding of each other, and promotes fair and equitable outcomes for everyone. We're striving to create a climate where we celebrate our diversity in all forms by treating each other with respect, listening to different viewpoints, supporting our communities, and creating a workplace where your authentic self belongs and thrives. We believe in an agile working culture for all our roles. If flexibility is important to you, we encourage you to explore with our hiring team what the opportunities are.

Haleon is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive equal consideration for employment without regard to race, color, national origin, religion, sex, pregnancy, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, age, disability, genetic information, military service, covered