Are you energized by a strategic project and portfolio management role that leverages your leadership experience to drive efficiency across end-to-end life cycle management from portfolio planning and governance to executing with excellence E2E Innovation programs? If so, this General Project and Portfolio Management Director role could be an ideal opportunity to explore.

As a Project and Portfolio Management Sr. Director, you will be responsible for managing teams responsible for all Haleon NA Innovation governance and strategic portfolio planning operations.

This role will provide/gives 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.

•             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.

Why you?

Basic Qualifications:

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

• Bachelor’s degree
• 15+ years of experience in project management of large scale non-IT programs
• Experience managing supplier performance across complex supply chains
• Leadership experience in a regulated Consumer Healthcare environment

Preferred Qualifications:

If you have the following characteristics, it would be a plus:

• Master’s degree in procurement or supply chain management
• Ability to manage projects and lead teams across different disciplines
• Excellent communication skills
• People and capability development experience

Why Haleon

Our values and expectations are at the heart of everything we do and form an important part of our culture.

These include Patient focus, Transparency, Respect, Integrity along with Courage, Accountability, Development, and Teamwork. As GSK focuses on our values and expectations and a culture of innovation, performance, and trust, the successful candidate will demonstrate the following capabilities:

• Agile and distributed decision-making – using evidence and applying judgement to balance pace, rigour and risk, governance and control, managing ambiguity and paradox.
• Managing individual performance.
• Creating a performance culture and driving results, prioritisation, execution, delivering performance.
• Setting strategic direction and leading on-going organisational transformation.
• Building a resilient organisation.
• Building strong relationships and collaboration in service of common goals, engaging the organisation and building trusted external networks for mutual benefit.
• Managing P&L and capital allocation.

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At Haleon we embrace our diverse workforce by creating an inclusive environment that celebrates our unique perspectives, generates curiosity to create unmatched understanding of each other, and promotes fair and equitable outcomes for everyone. We're striving to create a climate where we celebrate our diversity in all forms by treating each other with respect, listening to different viewpoints, supporting our communities, and creating a workplace where your authentic self belongs and thrives. We believe in an agile working culture for all our roles. If flexibility is important to you, we encourage you to explore with our hiring team what the opportunities are.

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Haleon is an Equal Opportunity Employer and, in the US, we adhere to Affirmative Action principles. This ensures that all qualified applicants will receive equal consideration for employment without regard to race, color, national origin, religion, sex, pregnancy, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, age, disability, genetic information, military service, covered/protected veteran status or any other federal, state or local protected class.

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Haleon offers a robust Total Reward package that consists of competitive pay and a comprehensive benefits program.  This includes a generous 401(k) plan, tuition reimbursement and time off programs including 6 months paid parental leave.  On day one, you are eligible for benefits, including our healthcare programs where the company pays for the majority of your medical coverage for you and your family.  We also offer the opportunity to receive a discretionary bonus based on the achievement of key business performance and other incentive/recognition programs as part of the offering.