IW Project Manager, Senior Associate

City: Chachoengsao

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

The role will be in the PPM team within the Sexual Wellness category on base business. In this role, you will be responsible for the management of base business protection projects from feasibility phase until launch in the market. You will be working with multi-functional project teams to ensure projects are 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 provide portfolio management to the base business teams, supporting with annual portfolio planning, prioritisation and resourcing, budget management and providing 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 key 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

• Identify and manage project dependencies and critical project paths; manage risk analysis and contingency planning on all assigned projects.

• 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 as required)

• Establish, communicate and continually manage project expectations and progress with team members and key project stakeholders via meetings, presentations and monthly status reports.

• Ensure proactive timely escalation of key projects and issues to appropriate stakeholders.

• 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

• Apply influence to better align other functions to agreement of overall business objectives.

• Resolve conflicts and build strong working relationships within the project teams.

• Prepare and present project status updates in governance forums, including flags for project changes (changes to scope, risks, resourcing, schedule) and Stage Gates

• Support cross functional teams with portfolio planning, prioritisation and execution

• Ensure project data is accurately created and maintained in corporate project planning systems

The experience we're looking for

• Exceptional Project Management skills and Microsoft Project skills

• Planning and organisational skills with good understanding of priority setting.

• Minimum 5 years of relevant experience with product development within a FMCG environment, with a proven track record of delivery.

• 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 nurture teamwork and foster an environment of achievement and motivation

• Ability to demonstrate a high degree of flexibility regarding changing priorities

• Entrepreneurial with an affinity for problem solving and being solution-oriented

• Proven ability to work under pressure without compromising on deliverables.

The skills for success

• BS/BA/MS degree, ideally in a related science or engineering, Master’s degree in business a plus.

• Experience within Health or Medical Device industry is a plus.

• Experience of working with global project team is a plus

• Certified Project Management Professional (PMP) or other professional project management qualification (or on-track) is a plus.

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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