Senior Project Manager at Haleon in Shanghai, Shanghai, China

Senior Project Manager Location: China - Shanghai - HuangPu District - The Headquarters Building 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. Key Responsibilities Scope of Role Developing proficiency in delivering innovation projects. Responsible for managing country-level launch details. Leadership Role model HALEON culture. Applies PM best practices on projects and supports overall business capability building. Good partnership with the Project Accountable Lead, providing confidence and competence necessary to take on the challenging objectives and drive accountability. Developing proficiency in driving resolution of team conflicts through skilled negotiation and diplomacy, elevating to accountable functional leaders as necessary. Foster an environment of enthusiasm, accountability and teamwork, and help reward and celebrate achievements. Project Management Accountable for building project team (functions, people) upon project approval, partnering closely with cross-functional leadership, seeking manager guidance as needed. Guide core teams to ensure timely decision making, effective stakeholder communication, adherence to applicable processes, contingency planning and execution. Accountable for assuring there is a clear project scope and strategy, aligned resource needs, comprehensive spend forecasts. Develop & maintain comprehensive timelines in PPM system with cross-functional input & limited guidance, by integrating key functional deliverables and local market launch activities, considering dependencies and resource requirements. Facilitate functional area’s probability of success assessments in support of portfolio pipeline activities Developing proficiency in identifying issues and drive resolution with guidance and to assure comprehensive risk assessment and mitigation plan is in place for all projects. Ensure significant changes to the aligned business case are communicated rapidly and efficiently to appropriate leadership (via existing change control process) Assure accuracy of assigned projects’ content in PPM system working closely with data owners from cross-functional project team. Align & deliver all key project milestones to support appropriate metrics. Co-drive gate readiness partnering closely with Project Accountable Lead and action any gate meeting outcomes with broader project team. Conduct lessons learned with project teams, document, and assure dissemination out to organization as best practice. Co-develop, align and track project budget, rapidly communicating variance. Requirements: Bachelor’s degree 3 years of experience in Marketing, Supply Chain or R&D including Project Management in a consumer healthcare environment or related area (e.g., CPG, pharmaceutical, etc.) Job Posting End Date 2026-07-10 Equal Opportunities Haleon are committed to mobilising our purpose in a way that represents the diverse consumers and communities who rely on our brands every day. It guides us in creating an inclusive culture, where different backgrounds and views are valued and respected – all in support of understanding and best serving the needs of our consumers and unleashing the full potential of our people. It’s important to us that Haleon is a place where all our employees feel they truly belong. During the application process, we may ask you to share some personal information, which is entirely voluntary. 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