Senior Director, Project and Portfolio Management - North America

Role Summary

The Senior Director, Project and Portfolio Management - North America leads end-to-end life cycle management for Haleon NA Innovation governance and strategic portfolio planning, driving efficiency from portfolio planning through to execution. This role manages teams responsible for Haleon NA Innovation governance and strategic portfolio operations, with a consumer-first mindset and the ability to influence through others.

Responsibilities

• 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.
• Oversee portfolio whilst delivering end-to-end projects.
• 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.
• Lead a team of 14.

Qualifications

• Required: Bachelor’s degree
• Required: 15+ years of experience in project management of large scale (non-IT) programs
• Required: Understanding of end-to-end R&D innovation lifecycle
• Required: Track record of managing large project portfolios
• Required: Experience managing supplier performance across complex supply chains
• Required: Leadership experience in a regulated environment
• Required: Understanding of US trade framework
• Required: Excellent communication skills
• Required: People and capability development experience
• Required: People leadership experience
• Preferred: Master’s degree in procurement or supply chain management

Skills

• Leadership and people-management capabilities
• Strategic portfolio management and governance
• Stakeholder engagement and cross-functional collaboration
• Regulatory compliance and risk management
• Change management and process improvement
• Strong communication abilities and influencing skills

Education

• Bachelor’s degree
• Master’s degree in procurement or supply chain management (Preferred)