Innovation Project Manager

You’ve built experience, now use it where bold ideas meet real impact. At Opella, we’re challenging how self-care works for millions of people and needs leaders and experts ready to shape what’s next. As Innovation Project Manager of Opella, you’ll bring your skill, your curiosity and your drive to make health simpler, smarter and more human.

Key Responsibilities

About the job:

Cross-functional team leadership

• Lead cross-functional project teams to drive innovation initiatives from concept to launch, with full accountability for scope, timeline, budget, and value creation.
• Facilitate project alignment through structured kick-off, planning workshops, and recurring team meetings to monitor progress, resolve issues, and enable fast decision-making.
• Manage the full project lifecycle, including scope, schedules, risks, resources, and financials, applying agile and outcome-focused methodologies.
• Define and drive project strategies aligned with business objectives and functional input, ensuring consumer relevance and commercial viability.
• Perform risk management strategies as required and take necessary risk mitigation steps.
  
  

Support for decision-making and stakeholder engagement

• 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.
• Provide project updates, KPIs and business impact metric with stakeholders.,
• Support post-launch reviews and champion continuous improvement by capturing learnings and embedding best practices.
  
  

Required

About You:

• Experience in delivering or supporting innovation projects end-to-end, with measurable business impact (e.g. sales growth, speed-to-market, consumer engagement)
• Experience in managing cross-functional teams
  
  

Preferred

• Preferably with 8+ years' experience in innovation, project management or product development in the consumer healthcare, OTC, personal care, food, FMCG industries.
  
  

Skills & Leadership Attributes

• Excellent stakeholder management, collaboration and influence skills
• High emotional intelligence and sound judgement
• 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
• Strong stakeholder management and ability to interact with senior leaders
• Ability to navigate complexity, ambiguity and change
• Strong action orientation and ability to get things done well
  
  

Challenger Mindset – Candidate must be able to demonstrate the Challenger Mindset

• All in. Together. Keep each other honest. Have each other's back.
• Courageous - Break Boundaries. Take thoughtful risks with creativity.
• Outcome Obsessed - Be personally accountable. Driving sustainable impact and results with integrity and speed.
• Radically Simple - Simple for us. Simple for consumers. Simple for customers. As it should be.
  
  

About Us

Opella is the self-care challenger with the purest and third-largest portfolio in the Over The Counter (OTC) & Vitamins, Minerals & Supplements (VMS) market globally.  

Our mission is to bring health in people’s hands by making self-care as simple as it should be. For half a billion consumers worldwide – and counting.

At the core of this mission is our 100 loved brands, our 11,000-strong global team, our 13 best-in-class manufacturing sites and 4 specialized science and innovation development centers. Headquartered in France, Opella is the proud maker of many of the world’s most loved brands, including Allegra, Buscopan, Doliprane, Dulcolax, Enterogermina, Essentiale and Mucosolvan.

As a globally certified B Corp company, we are active players in the journey towards healthier people and planet.

Find out more about our mission at www.opella.com.