MEA 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 Sensodyne, Voltaren, Panadol, Otrivin, and Centrum across 40+ markets in MEA – through a unique combination of deep human understanding and trusted science.

We are looking for a highly motivated and goal-oriented Project Manager to become a valuable member of our team. The MEA Innovation Project Manager is responsible for leading and delivering innovation projects for North Africa. This role involves overseeing the end-to-end delivery of MEA Business Unit-led innovation and Maintenance projects necessary to achieve the growth objectives aligned with MEA's strategic priorities.

Responsibilities:

• Manages the Geo-expansions/Initiatives and maintenance projects through all stages of the Haleon innovation funnel (from Gate 0 through execution) and project set-up in project portfolio management systems

• Facilitate local governance forum for effective decision-making.

• Innovation performance analytics - monitoring and reporting post-launch innovation performance to achieve Innovation sales targets

• Reporting - overseeing the monthly, quarterly, and annual market Innovation sales submissions to the Business Unit, Region, and Global Finance and Portfolio teams.

Scope of Role:

• Proficiency in delivering innovation projects of varying complexity in a structured innovation environment

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

• Maintenance projects: being single point of contact for global teams, consolidate market needs & possible timelines etc. and monitor progress of implementation

• Manage E2E Innovation and commercial rollout of projects for a specific market (cluster)

Leadership

• Effective communicator who ensures alignment and support received from all stakeholders

• Role model HALEON behaviours of consumer first always, collaborate for impact, unlock value at pace and grow myself and others

• 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.

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

• Foster an environment of enthusiasm, accountability and teamwork, and help reward and celebrate achievements.

Project Management

• Ensure projects are delivered on time, within budget, and meet high-quality standards.

• 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.

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

• Create timelines with tasks and monitor the process through recurrent call for follow-up actions & check list until launch date (also for Global Led projects and new launches supported by EMEA PM).

• 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.

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

• 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)

• 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.

Why you?

Basic Qualifications:

We are looking for professionals with these required skills to achieve our goals:

• Bachelor’s degree

• 5 years marketing, brand management, innovation experience focused on complex projects management.

• 3 to 5 years of solid project management experience.

• Experience leading multi-faceted projects, influencing various functions within a complex organization to deliver successful and timely projects.

• Strong leadership skills, with the ability to lead and influence in a matrixed organization (large, diverse teams, peer groups, senior stakeholders).

• Effective communication skills – capable of managing multiple stakeholders and driving decisions.

• A positive mindset with the ability to motivate a cross-functional team.

Preferred Qualifications:

If you have the following characteristics, it would be a plus:

• Experience in Analytics and Facility with P&Ls including ability to build business cases

• Entrepreneurial experience

• Ability to adapt and work effectively within a variety of situations including organizational changes and changes in job demands

• Comfortable challenging status-quo. Proactive in identifying, leading and implementing change initiatives.

Why Join Us?

The future of everyday health is changing. And we’re the people changing it. In front of us is an incredible opportunity to go beyond what any of us have done before. And make everyday health more achievable, more inclusive and more sustainable. For more and more people. ​

So join us, as we build one of the world’s leading consumer healthcare companies. Join us to innovate our category-leading brands. To better understand people’s everyday health needs. To tackle the biggest barriers that stand in their way. To change individual and societal behaviour. 

In our efforts to further tackle barriers that may be standing in our way, we have implemented what we call a Hybrid Working model, known as Home office. Home office in the country of employment is permitted for all employees whose position allows it. The employee and the manager agree on the circumstances in which working from the office is required and in which the employee can work remotely or specific local arrangements. This helps us with ensuring that we maintain a healthy work-life balance, and give our best to our people

Join us to work with colleagues who share your restless energy. To explore your interests. To stretch yourself to do the best work of your career. And join us, as together we build a working experience that encourages us all to lead happier, healthier, more productive lives. ​

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The way we see it, every day is an opportunity for better. And we’re going all in to realise it. 

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The job closing date is on February 13, 2025

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