Project Portfolio Manager, Germ Protection

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.

About the role

In this role, you will be responsible for the successful delivery of the R&D programs within your categories/segment(s). Lead a team of project managers in ensuring all projects are delivered on-time and in-full. Your accountability will be for the risk, time, budget, and resource management of the projects within your portfolio. You will work with cross-functional leadership, across various geographies, to ensure that projects meet business requirements, regular and timely updates are provided. Issues will be escalated for resolution promptly and effectively. You will also provide a single source of the truth for all project data (risks, status, resourcing, etc) and KPIs within your area of responsibility. You will champion project and portfolio management best practices and be accountable for coaching and development of your team.

Your responsibilities

A. PROJECTS & PORTFOLIO
• Manage and coach a team of project managers in delivering projects on-time, in-full, on-budget and in-line with the PPM Charter.
• Lead by example as required by personally leading and completing project management activities for project(s) within the portfolio of responsibility.
• Provide adequate leadership for agile and effective projects delivery through your team
• Escalations & step in to remove obstacles and to help project managers in their daily activities. 
• Make sure that your teams’ projects have their requirements identified and propose solutions to balance constraints across Scope, Schedule, Cost, Quality, Resources, Risk
• Collating and validating project data at portfolio level to generate insights and portfolio recommendations.
• Ensuring the right cadence and delivery of pipeline projects. 
• Support and ensure completion of resource planning across cross-functional teams.

B. DRIVING DECISION MAKING PROCESS
• Co-lead the preparation of project stage gate approvals and red flags, ensuring cross-functional collaboration,, providing strategic recommendations and driving data-driven decisions with category leadership 
• Establish and maintain active communication with x-functional stakeholders. Address various needs, concerns, and expectations of stakeholders at projects and portfolio levels 
• Act as a champion of the innovation operating model and ways of working, ensuring process governance and deployment, including enforcing the discipline of stage-gate process, completion of documents, etc
• Work directly with R&D and marketing leaders to make recommendations on decision needed within projects and portfolio. Provide support to commercial partners, facilitating ways of working and improved communications across multiple functions
• Coordinate leadership meetings where decisions are made around the portfolio of your responsibility.

C. METRICS
• Provide through your team and your analysis accurate and consistent communication on program risks, status, and resourcing.
• Maintains accurate information about resource allocations, 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. 
• Monitor and control team’s delivery against project and portfolio KPIs

D. COMPETENCES AND MODELS
• Collaborates with the PPM Managers across Health categories to drive synergies on ways of working and best practices sharing 
• Play a key role in developing ways of working for Project and Portfolio Management to drive efficiencies and continuous improvement of the PPM practices

E. TEAM AND CULTURE
• Hire, Grow and Manage a Team of Project Managers
• Provide coaching and mentorship to project managers across the Health PPM team
• Alongside your Senior PPM organization leadership create a welcoming and inclusive culture. Driving team development, capability improvements and a vibrant, winning PPM organization.
• Championing & Contribute to PPM Charter.

The experience we're looking for

• Bachelors or Master’s degree preferably in engineering, science, business or finance. 
• Experience with building teams, leading a team, developing and coaching people
• Project, program and portfolio management experience with new or existing product development, in consumer healthcare or FMCGs
• Experience working as part of a cross-functional team, with very good understanding of multiple disciplines including Marketing, R&D, Supply Chain and Finance.
• Advanced experience with MS Project 
• Consumer healthcare expertise highly desirable
• Certified Project Management Professional (PMP) or other professional project management qualification is desired.

The skills for success

Business Strategy, Task Execution Under Pressure, Makes strategic Business Decisions, Business Acumen, Commercial Awareness, Objective Setting, Accountability, Consumer Insight, Creative Direction, R&D, Change Leadership, Product Lifecycle Management, Business Partnership, Collaboration and partnership building, Relationship Management, Adapt to changes in technological development plans, Ability to challenge the status quo and propose improvement, Innovation Processes, Digital transformation for R&D, Quality and Manufacturing.

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.