IPM NA Category Lead Oral Health

Welcome to Haleon. We’re a purpose-driven, world-class consumer company putting everyday health in the hands of millions. In just three years since our launch, we’ve grown, evolved and are now entering an exciting new chapter – one filled with bold ambitions and enormous opportunity. Our trusted portfolio of brands – including Sensodyne®, Panadol®, Advil®, Voltaren®, Theraflu®, Otrivin®, and Centrum® – lead in resilient and growing categories.

What sets us apart is our unique blend of deep human understanding and trusted science. Now it’s time to fully realise the full potential of our business and our people. We do this through our Win as One strategy. It puts our purpose – to deliver better everyday health with humanity – at the heart of everything we do. It unites us, inspires us, and challenges us to be better every day, driven by our agile, performance-focused culture.

The IPM NA Category Lead Oral Health is a senior leader within Portfolio & Project Management and a crucial contributor to successful delivery of Haleon’s innovation agenda. The role integrates business objectives, technical development plans, operational execution, governance, and organizational capability building. This leader orchestrates complex cross functional programs across Commercial, R&D, Supply Chain, Quality, Regulatory and other functions to ensure strategic initiatives deliver business value.

In the Regional Technical capacity, the Lead defines and executes the regional technical strategy for the product category, ensuring consistent quality, compliance, and operational excellence while driving manufacturing transformation and cost saving initiatives. It also leads to cross functional collaboration and applies lean and value engineering methodologies to optimize processes, strengthen supply chain performance, and maximize value across the region.

• Innovation Program Leadership for Category/Market – Lead complex, high-value innovation programs including new product development, claims innovation, process improvements and brand upgrades.
• Innovation Portfolio Management – Provide visibility to project sufficiency, risks, dependencies, prioritization decisions and resource requirements. Deliver the Category/OU Market innovation scorecard
• Integrated Innovation Master Planning – Develop and maintain by category integrated cross-functional plans and milestone alignment.
• Governance & Stage Gate Excellence – Lead governance forums, stage-gate readiness, change control and decision processes. Ensures ambition for agility and speed and enterprise risk are associated in order to make sound decisions
• Capability Building – Drive Project management best practices, tools, governance models and continuous improvement initiatives.
• People Leadership – Coach, mentor and develop Project Managers and Senior Project Managers.
• Decision Support – Provide strategic recommendations regarding investment choices, prioritization and delivery trade-offs.
• Technical readiness for Innovations:
  Delivers high level of technical readiness for innovations partnering with site/planning/procurement etc.

• Lead strategic innovation programs from concept through commercialization.
• Build and lead high-performing cross-functional teams.
• Maintain integrated project plans, budgets, resource forecasts and risk registers.
• Drive speed to impact through disciplined planning and execution.
• Partner with portfolio teams to support governance reviews and reporting.
• Ensure project information accuracy within enterprise PPM systems.
• Lead gate readiness and execution of governance outcomes.
• Resolve risks, issues, conflicts and bottlenecks through influence and negotiation.
• Conduct lessons learned reviews and institutionalize best practices.
• Champion organizational capability building and PM excellence.
• Owns the regional technical strategy for relevant product category to set framework for delivering consistent quality, robustness, and compliance across manufacturing sites.
• Leads cross functional collaboration with QA, R&D, Commercial, and global Technical teams to drive supply chain strategy execution and industry benchmarking.
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