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Project Manager PMO - ASEAN, MJN R&D

City: Central Singapore

We are Reckitt

Home to the world's best loved and trusted hygiene, health, and nutrition brands. Our purpose defines why we exist: to protect, heal and nurture in the relentless pursuit of a cleaner, healthier world. We are a global team united by this purpose. Join us in our fight to make access to the highest quality hygiene, wellness, and nourishment a right and not a privilege.

Research & Development

In Research and Development we're full of highly skilled talents that include Scientists, Engineers, Medical, Clinical and Regulatory professionals - all working to create a cleaner, healthier world. With nine Centres of Excellence, we continually seek out new opportunities by using science, our entrepreneurial flare and our fearless innovation to develop and enhance our existing portfolio, never compromising on quality or performance. We do the right thing, always, by ensuring we act with responsibility and integrity, by complying with regulatory legislation across the globe, whilst ensuring our products are safe for our consumers and are to the highest quality. The size of our organisation means you'll have the opportunity to learn and work in different functions within Research and Development, giving you exposure to different disciplines, teams and environments. You will also have access to our Research and Development Academy, designed to develop our team and allow you to grow in our great organisation.

About the role

You will be responsible for the successful delivery of ASEAN projects. You will work with cross-functional teams, across various functions, to ensure that projects meet business requirements, regular updates are provided, and that issues are escalated for resolution effectively. You will participate in leadership meetings to drive project decisions, such as stage-gate approvals and risks alignments. You will implement, and drive operating model governance, holding teams accountable for their deliverables and decisions made. You will also provide a single source of the truth for your project data (risks, status, resourcing, budgeting, etc.) and KPIs. You will demonstrate project management best practices and work to further improve the capability across MJN.

Your responsibilities

E2E Portfolio and Project Management

Responsible for the successful delivery of the projects within MJN; ensuring projects are delivered on-time and in-full
Accountable for the risk, time, budget, and resource management
Escalates issues for resolution promptly and effectively
Provide a single source of the truth for all project data (risks, status, resourcing, budgeting, etc.) and KPIs
Own and develop the end-to-end (E2E) project timeline, including critical path, dependencies, successors, and milestones
Develop, track, and manage the end-to-end project budget, including changes and reconciliation
Support monthly governance forum preparation + regional portfolio review

Driving Decision Making Process

Preparation of project stage gate approvals and flags, ensuring cross-functional collaboration, providing recommendations and driving data-driven decisions
Establish and maintain active communication with x-functional stakeholders.
Work directly with R&D, Supply Chain and Marketing to make recommendations on decisions

Metrics

Maintains accurate information about resource, understands the impact of changes; highlights resource deficiencies and provides recommendations to close gaps.
Ensure projects data inputs (resourcing/budget, risks, status, etc.) are accurate and compliant with PPM systems requirements. Acts as a champion to improve data governance, ensuring One Source of Truth across projects and programs.

Stage Gate Process

Champion of the operating model and ways of working, ensuring process governance and deployment, including enforcing the discipline of stage-gate process
Developing ways to drive efficiencies and continuous improvement of the PMO practices
Own Stage Gate deliverables (RPG, BBCT, CIT, PMC) ensuring quality, completeness, and timeliness
Ensure adherence to MJN governance and PMO processes + Present relevant gate documentation at governance forums

Project Tracking & Communication

Facilitate and own core team meetings, including agendas, actions, and follow-ups
Regularly review project timeline, risks, resources, and budget
Produce concise one-page project status updates for stakeholders
Define, track, and report project metrics

Team & Culture

Champion project and program management best practices.
Collaborates with the PMs across Nutrition to drive synergies on ways of working and best practices sharing.

The experience we're looking for

Minimum 3 - 5 years of experience as a project manager leading multiple initiatives from idea to launch, additional experience in program, and portfolio management experience for consumer healthcare or FMCGs a plus.
Bachelor’s or master’s degree preferably in engineering, science, business, or finance. MBA a plus
Excellent understanding of multiple disciplines including Marketing, R&D, Supply Chain and Finance.
Consumer healthcare expertise highly desirable, PMP certified a plus.
Experience with leading team(s) in nutrition and early/discovery science work a plus.
Proven leadership with respect to business case building, stakeholder management, both in the theory, but more importantly the practice.
Experience in working in a matrix teams organisation to establish route to market including generation of commercial, supply, regulatory and where applicable clinical strategies.
Proven experience of managing cross functional teams; Creative and open attitude, with a mindset of delivery.
An understanding of the R&D development process within nutrition and the key challenges and hurdles to be overcome in delivery of product to market.
Experience/Ability to deal with ambiguity and create clarity for decision making when a diverse range of options are available.

The skills for success

Portfolio management, project management, team leader, leadership, know the business cold, flawless execution, big picture, excellent communicator & presenter

What we offer

With inclusion at the heart of everything we do, working alongside our four global Employee Resource Groups, we support our people at every step of their career journey, helping them to succeed in their own individual way. We invest in the wellbeing of our people through parental benefits, an Employee Assistance Program to promote mental health, and life insurance for all employees globally. We have a range of other benefits in line with the local market. Through our global share plans we offer the opportunity to save and share in Reckitt's potential future successes. For eligible roles, we also offer short-term incentives to recognise, appreciate and reward your work for delivering outstanding results. You will be rewarded in line with Reckitt's pay for performance philosophy.

Equality

We recognise that in real life, great people don't always 'tick all the boxes'. That's why we hire for potential as well as experience. Even if you don't meet every point on the job description, if this role and our company feels like a good fit for you, we still want to hear from you. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, disability or medical condition; colour, ethnicity, race, citizenship, and national origin; religion, faith; pregnancy, family status and caring responsibilities; sexual orientation; sex, gender identity, gender expression, and transgender identity; protected veteran status; size or any other basis protected by appropriate law.

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