Senior Project Manager - R&D, MJN PMO

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

This role will provide senior project leadership for a multi-year R&D development and commercialization program consisting of five related projects across two manufacturing locations. The role will be accountable for the end-to-end management of all five projects, ensuring strong cross-functional integration from product and technical development through stage-gate approval, marketing alignment, manufacturing readiness, and launch.

The successful candidate will work across R&D, Regulatory, Quality/Food Safety, Supply Chain, Engineering, Manufacturing, Finance, Procurement, Marketing/Commercial, and other stakeholders to translate business, product, and technical requirements into executable project plans. The role will establish and maintain a single source of truth for timelines, risks, issues, decisions, resources, budgetary spend, and key milestones; drive timely escalation and decision making; and ensure MJN project management standards, stage-gate requirements, and documentation expectations are consistently followed throughout execution.

Your responsibilities

Lead end-to-end delivery of five cross-functional product development and commercialization projects, from scope definition through launch, stage-gate approvals, and project closeout.

Develop and manage integrated project plans, ensuring alignment of timelines, dependencies, milestones, resources, budgets, and commercialization objectives.

Serve as the single source of truth for project governance, maintaining schedules, risk registers, decision logs, change controls, dashboards, status reports, and stage-gate documentation.

Partner with R&D, Marketing, Regulatory, Quality, Supply Chain, Engineering, and Manufacturing teams to translate product requirements into executable development, validation, and launch plans.

Drive cross-functional decision-making by resolving scope, cost, schedule, regulatory, technical, and operational trade-offs to maintain project momentum and business objectives.

Lead risk, issue, dependency, resource, and budget management activities, proactively identifying variances and implementing mitigation and escalation strategies.

Ensure regulatory compliance, quality standards, manufacturing readiness, process validation, supply continuity, and operational preparedness are integrated into all project plans.

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