MEA Senior Project Manager, Oral Health

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.

Role Purpose: ​

- Lead key strategic, cross-functional innovation 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.

Key Responsibilities

Scope of Role

- Demonstrates proficiency in delivering innovation projects of varying complexity, ensuring alignment to business objectives, value creation targets and launch success criteria.
- Drives rapid project initiation and structured execution to accelerate speed-to-impact while maintaining quality and compliance standards.
- For select markets, may be responsible for coordinating market-level launch readiness and ensuring successful local deployment.
- Builds deep understanding of category strategies, portfolio priorities, project interdependencies and resource constraints to proactively support delivery of the innovation pipeline.

Project Management

- Serves as a strategic partner to the Project Accountable Lead (PAL), providing project leadership, challenge and structure to maximize initiative success.
- Accountable for establishing and maintaining effective cross-functional project teams, ensuring roles, responsibilities and decision rights are clearly understood.
- Guides core teams to enable timely decision making, effective stakeholder management, adherence to governance requirements and successful execution against agreed plans.
- Ensures project scope, success criteria, business objectives and delivery strategy are clearly defined, aligned and maintained throughout project lifecycle.
- Develops and maintains integrated project plans within the PPM system, incorporating cross-functional deliverables, market deployment activities, dependencies and resource requirements.
- Drives transparency of project health, milestone achievement, risks, opportunities and key decisions through high-quality project tracking and reporting.
- Facilitates robust risk and opportunity management, ensuring mitigation and contingency plans are proactively developed, regularly reviewed and effectively executed.
- Challenges assumptions constructively and brings an enterprise mindset to decision making, helping teams maximise impact, value creation and probability of success.
- Supports portfolio planning activities through informed probability-of-success assessments and delivery insights.
- Identifies issues and emerging risks early, driving timely resolution through appropriate escalation and stakeholder engagement.
- Ensures significant changes to scope, timing, investment, risk profile or expected business outcomes are communicated and governed through agreed change management processes.
- Maintains high-quality and on-time project data and documentation, ensuring accuracy and integrity of information within project management systems.
- Leads project teams through governance and stage-gate processes, ensuring high-quality deliverables, strong gate readiness and clear follow-through on outcomes and actions.
- Facilitates effective stakeholder communication across functions and geographies to maintain alignment and support successful delivery.
- Drives disciplined budget planning, forecasting and tracking, ensuring visibility and proactive management of variances.
- Conducts structured post-launch and lessons learned reviews, capturing actionable insights and promoting best practices across the organization.
- Supports measurement of launch readiness and project success by ensuring key performance indicators, assumptions and delivery outcomes are appropriately tracked and reviewed.

Leadership

- Role model HALEON culture and behaviors, fostering an environment of accountability, collaboration, inclusion and continuous improvement.
- Guides cross-functional teams in evaluating opportunities, risks, trade-offs and resource implications to support fewer, bigger and better innovation choices.
- Actively coaches and develops project team members on project management best practices, contributing to broader capability building across the organization.
- Provides data-driven recommendations and structured scenario analysis to support portfolio prioritization, project shaping and key business decisions.
- Builds trust and alignment across cross-functional teams and geographies, enabling effective collaboration and timely decision making.
- Proactively identifies and addresses team dynamics, driving conflict resolution through skilled negotiation and influence while escalating appropriately when required.
- Encourages a mindset of learning and continuous improvement by capturing, sharing and applying lessons learned across projects.
- Recognizes and celebrates team achievements, helping maintain high levels of engagement and motivation.

Knowledge/ Education / Previous Experience Required

- Bachelor’s degree at Sciences, Business/Finance, Engineering
- 7 years of experience in Project Management at Marketing, and/or Supply Chain, R&D in a FMCG or consumer healthcare environment
- Excellent level of written and spoken English
- 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 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

Job Posting End Date

2026-10-11

Equal Opportunities

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.

During the application process, we may ask you to share some personal information, which is entirely voluntary. This information ensures we meet certain regulatory and reporting obligations and supports the development, refinement, and execution of our inclusion and belonging programmes that are open to all Haleon employees.

The personal information you provide will be kept confidential, used only for legitimate business purposes, and will never be used in making any employment decisions, including hiring decisions.

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Note to candidates

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