Senior Director, Project and Portfolio Management - North America

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.

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, Panadol, Advil, Voltaren, Theraflu, Otrivin, and Centrum – through a unique combination of deep human understanding and trusted science. What’s more, we’re achieving it in a company that we’re in control of. In an environment that we’re co-creating. And a culture that’s uniquely ours. Care to join us. It isn’t a question.

This is an exciting time to join us and help shape the future. It’s an opportunity to be part of something special.

The Senior Director, Project and Portfolio Management - North America, leverages their leadership experience to drive efficiency across end-to-end life cycle management, from portfolio planning and governance to executing with excellence E2E Innovation programs. You'll be responsible for managing teams responsible for all Haleon NA Innovation governance and strategic portfolio planning operations.

We're looking for an experienced leader with a 'consumer first' mindset and the ability to lead and influence though others.

This role will provide YOU the opportunity to lead key activities to progress YOUR career, these responsibilities include some of the following…

• Accountable for ensuring teams deliver the design and execution of project plans, budgets, on-time delivery and compliance with regulatory requirements and Haleon standards and policies.

• Deliver products of value at optimum cost.

• Responsible for robust risk management; including Business Continuity Plans.

• Establishing standard ways of working across all External Supply (ES) and Business Development (BD) program management.

• Establish and coordinate cross functional team members (within External Supply and Business Development) to deliver on time and on budget projects.

• Drive and manage change, ensuring business continuity in a changing environment.

• Oversee portfolio whilst delivering e2e projects.

• Responsible for stakeholder engagement to provide updates and visibility of project delivery, identifying, triaging and managing inter-project dependencies.

• Coordinate in a matrix environment to ensure full alignment with External Supply Global API operational teams.

• Encourage collaboration across Haleon to ensure cross-functional input to key decisions and initiatives.

• Proactively drive a mindset of continuous improvement of processes, value creation and costs savings without compromising compliance, quality or customer service across the team.

• Develop people in the team to ensure that they have the capabilities to enable End to End cross-functional teams to execute innovation with excellence, and drive strategic portfolio management process and respective governance.

• Ensure all managers are equipped and able to deliver on their people management responsibilities and develop capability of leaders to enable them to successfully implement business strategy.

• Lead a team of 14.

Why you?

Basic Qualifications:

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

• Bachelor’s degree

• CPG/CH industry experience - Pharma considered but not preferred.

• 15+ years of experience in project management of large scale (non-IT) programs.

• Understanding of e2e R&D innovation lifecycle.

• Track record of managing large project portfolios.

• Experience managing supplier performance across complex supply c