Senior Project Manager - R&D, MJN PMO

We are Reckitt

Home to the world's best loved and trusted hygiene, health, and nutrition brands. Our purpose defines why we exist: to protect, heal and nurture in the relentless pursuit of a cleaner, healthier world. We are a global team united by this purpose. Join us in our fight to make access to the highest quality hygiene, wellness, and nourishment a right and not a privilege.

​Research & Development​

In Research and Development, we're full of highly skilled talents that include Scientists, Engineers, Medical, Clinical and Regulatory professionals - all working to create a cleaner, healthier world. With nine Centres of Excellence, we continually seek out new opportunities by using science, our entrepreneurial flare and our fearless innovation to develop and enhance our existing portfolio, never compromising on quality or performance.

We do the right thing, always, by ensuring we act with responsibility and integrity, by complying with regulatory legislation across the globe, whilst ensuring our products are safe for our consumers and are to the highest quality.

The size of our organisation means you'll have the opportunity to learn and work in different functions within R&D, giving you exposure to different disciplines, teams and environments. You will also have access to our Research and Development Academy, designed to develop our team and allow you to grow in our great organisation.

About the role

This role will provide senior project leadership for a multi-year R&D development and commercialization program consisting of five related projects across two manufacturing locations. The role will be accountable for the end-to-end management of all five projects, ensuring strong cross-functional integration from product and technical development through stage-gate approval, marketing alignment, manufacturing readiness, and launch.

The successful candidate will work across R&D, Regulatory, Quality/Food Safety, Supply Chain, Engineering, Manufacturing, Finance, Procurement, Marketing/Commercial, and other stakeholders to translate business, product, and technical requirements into executable project plans. The role will establish and maintain a single source of truth for timelines, risks, issues, decisions, resources, budgetary spend, and key milestones; drive timely escalation and decision making; and ensure MJN project management standards, stage-gate requirements, and documentation expectations are consistently followed throughout execution.

Your responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end delivery of five cross-functional product development and commercialization projects, from scope definition through launch, stage-gate approvals, and project closeout.
• Develop and manage integrated project plans, ensuring alignment of timelines, dependencies, milestones, resources, budgets, and commercialization objectives.
• Serve as the single source of truth for project governance, maintaining schedules, risk registers, decision logs, change controls, dashboards, status reports, and stage-gate documentation.
• Partner with R&D, Marketing, Regulatory, Quality, Supply Chain, Engineering, and Manufacturing teams to translate product requirements into executable development, validation, and launch plans.
• Drive cross-functional decision-making by resolving scope, cost, schedule, regulatory, technical, and operational trade-offs to maintain project momentum and business objectives.
• Lead risk, issue, dependency, resource, and budget management activities, proactively identifying variances and implementing mitigation and escalation strategies.
• Ensure regulatory compliance, quality standards, manufacturing readiness, process validation, supply continuity, and operational preparedness are integrated into all project plans.
• Establish strong project management discipline, governance processes, and stakeholder accountability while supporting successful stage-gate approvals, commercialization, and market launches.

The experience we're looking for

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Science, Engineering, Business, Operations, or a related field required; PMP or equivalent project/program management certification preferred.
• 6–8+ years of progressive project/program management experience leading complex, multi-year initiatives and multiple interdependent projects from development through commercialization and launch.
• Proven success managing R&D product development, innovation, and new product commercialization programs, preferably within consumer health, nutrition, FMCG, or other regulated industries.
• Demonstrated ability to lead cross-functional teams and align stakeholders across R&D, Regulatory, Quality, Marketing, Supply Chain, Engineering, Manufacturing, Finance, and Procurement.
• Strong expertise in project management disciplines, including integrated scheduling, critical path planning, risk management, change control, resource planning, budget management, forecasting, and executive reporting.
• Experience translating product development requirements into manufacturing, supply chain, and operational execution plans to support successful commercialization.
• Working knowledge of regulatory, quality, product launch, and compliance requirements within highly regulated industries such as food, infant nutrition, healthcare, pharmaceuticals, or medical devices.
• Exceptional leadership, communication, negotiation, and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to influence decisions, lead multiple projects simultaneously, and drive results in a matrix environment without direct authority; willingness to travel and work primarily from Evansville, IN.

What we offer

With inclusion at the heart of everything we do, working alongside our four global Employee Resource Groups, we support our people at every step of their career journey, helping them to succeed in their own individual way. We invest in the wellbeing of our people through parental benefits, an Employee Assistance Program to promote mental health, and life insurance for all employees globally. We have a range of other benefits in line with the local market. Through our global share plans we offer the opportunity to save and share in Reckitt's potential future successes. For eligible roles, we also offer short-term incentives to recognise, appreciate and reward your work for delivering outstanding results. You will be rewarded in line with Reckitt's pay for performance philosophy.

Salary range

USD $127,000.00 - $191,000.00

Pay transparency

The base salary range for this role will vary based on experience in job and industry, training and education, skills relevant to the position, and other factors permitted by law. In addition to the base salary, the position is eligible for an annual discretionary bonus, which is subject to change each year. Reckitt offers eligible employees competitive benefits including medical, prescription, dental, vision, and life and disability insurance; paid time off for vacation, sick and Company recognized holidays; a 401(k) plan; 16-week paid parental leave or 26 weeks for the birthing parent; adoption and fertility support; tuition reimbursement; discounts; and much more. Our compensation and benefits packages aim to give our talent the reward, protection, and peace of mind they deserve. If reasonable accommodation is needed to complete your application, please contact View email address on us.fitly.work. Reckitt is committed to the full inclusion of all qualified individuals.

Equality

We recognise that in real life, great people don't always 'tick all the boxes'. That's why we hire for potential as well as experience. Even if you don't meet every point on the job description, if this role and our company feels like a good fit for you, we still want to hear from you. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, disability or medical condition; colour, ethnicity, race, citizenship, and national origin; religion, faith; pregnancy, family status and caring responsibilities; sexual orientation; sex, gender identity, gender expression, and transgender identity; protected veteran status; size or any other basis protected by appropriate law.