Hello. We’re Haleon. A new world-leading consumer health company. Shaped by all who join us. Together, we’re improving everyday health for billions of people. By growing and innovating our global portfolio of category-leading brands – including Sensodyne, Panadol, Advil, Voltaren, Theraflu, Otrivin, and Centrum – through a unique combination of deep human understanding and trusted science. What’s more, we’re achieving it in a company that we’re in control of. In an environment that we’re co-creating. And a culture that’s uniquely ours. Care to join us. It isn’t a question.
This is an exciting time to join us and help shape the future. It’s an opportunity to be part of something special.
About the role
As a member of the Global R&D Portfolio Management & Performance team, you will have a key role in helping us deliver innovative solutions for our consumers across our categories and geographies. You will work closely with the Global VP of R&D Portfolio Management & Performance, based in our Weybridge St Georges R&D centre, and with global, regional and market business unit teams to analyse and report on our innovation pipeline health and performance. You will use your data skills and business acumen to generate insights and recommendations that will inform and influence our portfolio governance decisions and enable us to bring the best consumer driven innovation to life at pace.
Key responsibilities
Drive consistent execution and continuous improvement in the following areas:
Pipeline Data Management
* Consolidate relevant pipeline data from within our Project Management and financial systems.
* Ensure pipeline data integrity, driving updates as required, to ensure accurate reporting.
* Partner with Finance to incorporate innovation sales performance into reports.
Pipeline Reporting
* Design, create, and visualize key pipeline reports (using e.g. PowerBI).
* Execute and disseminate relevant pipeline information at Business Unit, Category, cross-BU, cross-Category, and Enterprise level for portfolio reviews, stakeholder forums, governance boards, and strategy planning sessions.
* Provide ad hoc reports and analytics (while striving for standardization) from Power BI using Excel and other data sources to support business requests.
* Partner with relevant portfolio and project partners across the business to enable consistent pipeline and Portfolio decision making.
* Engage stakeholders to provide insights into various KPI’s and their drivers.
* Draft and issue portfolio presentation files for use in key business forums.
* Act as delegate to plan and facilitate key portfolio forums.
* Maintain timesheet reporting process and report monthly compliance levels.
Portfolio tools & ways of working
* Support enhancements for enterprise portfolio prioritization and analyses.
* Drive compliance and consistency of innovation project scorecard data.
* Support capability building and best practice sharing within Portfolio and Project Management (PPM) community and key stakeholders.
* Drive compliance of governance use of PPM system as the pipeline single source of truth.
Portfolio & Project Management Systems
* Partner with portfolio & project management system business owners, tech specialists, and users to prioritize, develop, and execute enhancements/maintenance of our portfolio and project management system, reports, automations, analytics, and visualizations.
* Identify/remedy anomalies in PowerBI reporting and analytics.
* Manage user access to systems and provide user system training.
* Promote new and better ways of delivering solutions, ensuring system integrity, security, and design are upheld and changes are verified.
Qualifications and skills
Essential
* Deep understanding of innovation stage gate processes and R&D pipeline portfolio management.
* Excellent working knowledge of portfolio management, resourcing and workflow systems, data, tools, Portfolio analysis and Business Intelligence reporting and visualization tools such as PowerBI, MS Excel (e.g. pivot tables, queries, formulae, macros, and other functions); and MS Project Online.
* Strong conceptual and analytical skills and excellent communication and influencing skills.
* 5 years of innovation experience in a global FMCG, CPG, Consumer Healthcare, or Pharmaceutical organization and familiarity with portfolio & project management systems.
Preferred
* Expertise in portfolio and project management systems and practices for global consumer healthcare.
* Ability to influence and deliver across multiple levels, priorities, and stakeholders in a matrix environment.
* Good understanding of the key business processes and functions within a global consumer healthcare company.
* High ability to work with globally distributed, cross-functional teams and design new solutions.
* Data visualization and manipulation expertise.
At Haleon, we embrace our diverse workforce by creating an inclusive environment that celebrates our unique perspectives, generates curiosity to create unmatched understanding of each other, and promotes fair and equitable outcomes for everyone.
Haleon is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive equal consideration for employment without regard to race, color, national origin, religion, sex, pregnancy, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, age, disability, genetic information, military service, covered/protected veteran status or any other federal, state or local protected class.
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