Opella, the Consumer Healthcare business unit of Sanofi, is the purest and third-largest player globally in the Over-The-Counter (OTC) & Vitamins, Minerals & Supplements (VMS) market. We have an unshakable belief in the power of self-care and the role it can play in creating a healthier society and a healthier planet. That’s why we want to make self-care as simple as it should be by being consumer-led always, with science at our core.
Through our unique and balanced portfolio of more than 100 loved brands, including 15 global and local high-growth challengers such as: Allegra, Dulcolax and Buscopan, we deliver our mission: helping more than half a billion consumers worldwide take their health in their hands.
This mission is brought to life by an 11,000-strong team, 13 best-in-class manufacturing sites, and 4 specialized science and innovation development centers. We are also proud to be the 1st major fast-moving consumer healthcare company to achieve B Corp certification.
Join us on our mission. Health. In your hands
Job Purpose
As the Innovation Project Manager – AMEA, you will drive end to end innovation initiatives across the consumer healthcare portfolio to drive growth & fuel the region’s innovation ambition. This role plays a critical part in translating consumer insights and business opportunities into commercially viable solutions with speed and precision.
You will collaborate cross-functionally to shape innovation pipelines, manage project execution, and ensure timely market delivery. This role demands an outcome-obsessed mindset, strategic influencing, agility, and the courage to challenge convention in pursuit of competitive advantage.
You are expected to drive measurable business outcomes, enhance consumer relevance, and enable long-term brand and category growth across diverse AMEA markets.
Key Accountabilities
Descriptions
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Lead cross-functional project teams to drive innovation initiatives from concept to launch, with full accountability for scope, timeline, budget, and value creation.
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Define and drive project strategies aligned with business objectives and functional input, ensuring consumer relevance and commercial viability.
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Manage the full project lifecycle, including scope, schedules, risks, resources, and financials, applying agile and outcome-focused methodologies.
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Facilitate project alignment through structured kick-off, planning workshops, and recurring team meetings to monitor progress, resolve issues, and enable fast decision-making.
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Present the project to the relevant Innovation Committee for gate submissions, status updates, major project changes and escalation of decisions and issues, and make recommendations for critical decision.
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Perform risk management strategies as required and take necessary risk mitigation steps.
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Provide project updates, KPIs and business impact metric with stakeholders.,
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Support post-launch reviews and champion continuous improvement by capturing learnings and embedding best practices.
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Actively contribute to the innovation project management community by sharing knowledge, tools, and standards across teams and regions.
Job requirements
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Preferably with 8+yr experience in innovation, project management or product development in the consumer healthcare, OTC, personal care, food, FMCG industries.
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Experience in delivering or supporting innovation projects end-to-end, with measurable business impact (e.g. sales growth, speed-to-market, consumer engagement).
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Understanding of various functions related to innovation process
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Strong analytical skills, possess the ability to proactively analyses issues, identify key challenges and develop strategic and tactical solutions and design metrics to measure business impacts.
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Prior experience in managing cross – functional teams across multiple geographies.
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Excellent communication & influencing skill.
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Strong stakeholder management and ability to interact with senior leaders.
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Outcome obsessed mindset, comfortable with ambiguity.
Pursue progress, discover extraordinary
Better is out there. Better medications, better outcomes, better science. But progress doesn’t happen without people – people from different backgrounds, in different locations, doing different roles, all united by one thing: a desire to make miracles happen. So, let’s be those people.
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