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Project Manager, Associate

City: Shanghai

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 R&D, 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

In this roles, you will be responsible for the management projects, from feasibility phase until launch in the market, as well as be responsible for supporting senior project managers in the delivery of more complex projects. You will be working with multi-functional project teams to ensure project is delivered on time and within scope. You will be responsible for building and managing project timelines, estimating and managing budget and resources, managing risks, monitoring progress and communicating status to upper management. You will support portfolio management to the base business or innovation teams, assisting with annual portfolio planning, prioritisation and resourcing, budget management and overall project management support to R&D and cross functional teams as required to enable the delivery of the brand base portfolio.

Your responsibilities

Manage the development of projects to ensure the maintenance of consumer preferred in market products for Reckitt brand(s)
Coordinate activities and objectives with cross functional teams to advance assigned initiatives to achieve desired compliance, quality, supply continuity, cost targets and business results.
Engage with current best approach on project management / planning, including creation and management of key project management documentation through appropriate use of PPM tools and systems (Project Briefs, Project Plans, Gantt Charts, Success Criteria, Risk Assessments, Budget, Resourcing, etc), in line with the operating model and PPM Charter.
Identify and manage project dependencies and critical project paths; manage risk analysis and contingency planning
Manage cross functional project activity across several functions including internal/ external resources and lead cross-functional teams serving as the gate holder of all project timelines; track project plans and milestones.
Ensure all parties involved in delivering project are held accountable for completion of actions on time and to required standards and resolve any arising issues (with support from Senior Project Manager/PPM Manager).
Ensure proactive timely escalation of key projects and issues to appropriate stakeholders.
Establish, communicate and continually manage project expectations and progress with team members and key project stakeholders via meetings, presentations and monthly status reports.
Ensure budgets and cross-functional resources are identified, allocated and managed per project requirements
Lead cross-functional alignment meetings to address specific project challenges/issues
Prepare and present project status and risks to management
Resolve conflicts and build strong working relationships within the project teams.
Use appropriate delegation/ influencing techniques as a vehicle to deliver project actions.
Lead project updates together with project champions towards key stakeholder forum updates, including flags for project changes (changes to scope, risks, resourcing, schedule) and Stage Gates, with support as needed
Ensure project data is accurately created and maintained for assigned projects in corporate project planning systems

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The experience we're looking for

Project Management skills and Microsoft Project skills
Minimum 2 years of relevant experience with product development within a FMCG environment
Experience of working with global project team is a plus.
A desire to pursue Certified Associate in Project Management (CAPM) / Project Management Professional (PMP).
Planning skills with good understanding of priority setting.
Effective communication skills and the ability to provide feedback to team members with the goal of attaining common understanding, trust, and cooperation. Ability to interact with all levels of the organization
Strong interpersonal skills to foster an environment of achievement and motivation
Ability to demonstrate a high degree of flexibility regarding changing priorities
Affinity for problem solving
Proven ability to work under pressure without compromising on deliverables.

The skills for success

Task Execution Under Pressure, Business Acumen, Commercial Awareness, Objective Setting, Accountability, Consumer Insight, R&D, Product Lifecycle Management, Intellectual Property, Business Partnership, Collaboration and partnership building, Adapt to changes in technological development plans, Ability to challenge the status quo and propose improvement, Innovation Processes.

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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