The IPM lead is a crucial contributor to the overall performance of Haleon innovation. This role is the integrator between technical and business plans and connects:
- Innovation strategy with excellence in execution (rigorous risk and stage gate management)
- What's possible vs what's needed - reconciles business requirements with master plans: work on the right thing (innovation sufficiency) and change manage with discipline
- Resource allocation - recommend resource allocation choices to where it matters most /where we scale.
Key responsibilities
This role has responsibility and oversight of the activities below with the added complexity of multiple stakeholders, different functions, and governance / business expectations:
- Innovation sufficiency - measurement and providing visibility
- Leadership alongside the Marketing, Supply Chain and R&D; functional leaders, that is needed to shape choices that close sufficiency haps, or to drive initiative success (make programs bigger / better)
- Drive Speed to impact of innovation by providing structure, fast project initiation, planning and well coordinated execution thus enabling delivery of innovation to BUs in the fastest, most robust way possible
- Line management responsibility for a team of program leaders / project managers. Coach and mentor the team to ensure we have the best project management capability in place to ensure efficient delivery. Drives individual and team growth and progression inline with haleon behaviours.
- Measures consistently launch success across category / OU s - Lean on a robust success criteria and sufficiency measurement and operationalises learning from past projects.
- As a snr. Leader, role models Haleon behaviours and provides leadership, coaching, mentoring etc across the enterprise. The key contribution of this role is to support sound decision providing best value for the enterprise.
- Chair of the monthly PMB / Stage gate council (stage-gate governance forum) ensuring well prepared documents that correspond the BIC standard, a robust decision-making process and robust change management and documentation.
- Ensure appropriate communication and stakeholder management across functions and geographies on an ongoing basis to ensure programme tracking and reporting is managed appropriately and to the right quality
- Facilitate core team interactions through provision of high calibre Project Managers to ensure achievement of short and long term objectives through timely decision making, effective stakeholder communication, adherence to established project governance processes, proper tracking and progress, contingency planning and issue resolution
- Resolve conflicts through skilled negotiation, tact and diplomacy
Basic Qualifications
- Business leadership - ability to connect business objectives, technical possibilities and operationalizing those among multiple conflicting priorities.
- Demonstrated strong business acumen - able to turn complex and energetic challenges into commercial success
- Experience and proven track record working in project management / project operations or equivalent within a large, complex matrix organization.
- Influence without authority - leadership presence and rapport built on undisputable ability to provide 360 deg view of a problem statement and a balanced view of options for a sound decision to be made
- Ability to build and maintain networks with multiple stakeholders and peers across different functions within the category, commercial, expert, technical platforms etc.
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