Associate Project Manager, Essential Health

Johnson & Johnson Consumer is one of the world's largest consumer health and personal care products company. Our consumer companies produce many of the world's most trusted brands, among them JOHNSON'S® Baby, BAND-AID®, NEUTROGENA®, TYLENOL®, MOTRIN®, and LISTERINE®. Each one of our consumer businesses embraces innovative science to create products that anticipate consumer needs and create experiences that help them live healthy, vibrant lives. J&J is an equal opportunity employer following strong Credo values.

The position is designed to Lead, plan, coordinate and control the execution of projects within the AP Essential Health Consumer business. The role focuses on introduction of new products (NPD/I Innovation) and projects touching or enhancing existing products as well as Life Cycle Management (LCM), Cost Improvement (CIP), Resite, Business Continuity (BCP), Internal & External Compliance. The role would focus on certain geography or on certain group of products for entire APAC.

This will require:

- Interdependent partnering with the other functions of the Project Management Office team, Value Stream Leads, Manufacturing sites (internal & external), Integrated Planning, Strategic Sourcing, Commercial marketing teams, QA, R&D, SMP/Technical Transfer, Global Engineering.
- Management of Innovation (NPD/I) project related activities from Define to Post Launch stage to ensure that projects are delivered on-time, within approved funding limits and achieves the final project objectives (FPOs).
- Execution of Life Cycle Management (LCM) projects from Design to Post Launch.
- Process acumen: Develop an in depth understanding of various business processes, governances and supporting systems (Planisware) and the tools/templates used for project & portfolio management.
- Finance acumen: develop foundation of supply chain finance understanding including costing process, finance planning process (BP, LRFP), business case finance, ownership to manage and track project capital & expenses.

The scope of key responsibilities includes:

- Organize and lead project core team meetings. Maintains effective communication and working relationships among project core team.
- Work with cross-functional team members to assess feasibility of project scope & FPO and develop detailed project timeline to ensure that there is sufficient flexibility and contingency in the plan to respond to unanticipated difficulties.
- Assign, define schedules and track cross-functional tasks/activities to ensure that project progress within expected timings.
- Lead risk analysis & mitigation planning for projects.
- Identify, monitor, communicate and resolve issues, scope changes, budget variances or other FPO hurdles that may arise during the project execution.
- Interface with regional and/or worldwide cross functional teams to obtain project relevant information.
- Ensure compliance against governance as required.
- Prepare and present project progress reports & presentations as required.

The position will be measured primarily on:

- Successful completion of individual projects meeting all project deliverables, On Time Launch, On Cost etc
- Compliance to worldwide, regional and local policies eg. GMP/Quality, Policy of Business Conduct, Healthcare Compliance, SOX, etc.
- E2E GP% project savings delivery.
- Follow compliance defined through the PMO Governance process and tools. Ownership to project tracking and status update Adherence to SPEED process and FPX process elements
- Efficient & effective resolution of project-related issues.
- Ability to balance process compliance, scope, resources and speed-to-market to achieve FPOs.

**Qualifications**
- Minimum 6 years of relevant Project Management working experience in FMCG industry.
- Ability to lead, motivate, influence and supervise cross-functional teams
- Problem-solving and decision-making skills
- Strong analytical and organizational skills; can work with details
- Ability to perform well under pressure, adapt to changes and meet deadlines
- Results-oriented and able to independently create and deliver
- Superior follow-up skills to ensure that actions are completed and issues are resolved in a timely manner
- Effective verbal and written communication skills, including excellent presentation skills
- Strong Project Management experience
- Knowledge of SPEED process and key requirements from each function
- Strong process-orientation
- Commercial awareness
- Prior experience working with ASEAN / Chinese markets preferred and ability to work in a multi-matrixed and cross-cultural environment.
- Should you accept this position, it is anticipated that, following conclusion of the transaction, you would be an employee of a new entity within New Consumer Health._

**Primary Location**
Singapore-Singapore-Singapore
- **Other Locations**
Asia Pacific-Malaysia, Asia Pacific-Philippines, Asia Pacific-Thailand
**Organization**
Johnson & Johnson Pte. Ltd. (8435)
**Job Function**
Operations