Project Manager OTC Healthcare

Description Overview

A project leader responsible for planning and delivering Stage Gate projects through effective cross-functional coordination, disciplined execution, risk management, and timely decision support. Acts as a trusted partner to project teams, ensuring projects remain aligned to agreed objectives, timelines, resources, and business priorities.

This is a hybrid position working out of one of our NA Perrigo offices, preferably in our Morristown, NJ or Allegan, MI office with a hybrid working schedule.

Scope of the Role

Project Execution & Delivery

• Plan and execute Stage Gate projects of moderate to high complexity, coordinating resources and activities required to deliver project scope on-time and in-budget.
• Establish and maintain integrated project plans, milestones, dependencies, roles, and deliverables.
• Support project prioritization by providing project-level insights, data, scenario inputs, and recommendations.
• Ensure project teams are prepared for key Stage Gate decisions and that agreed actions and decisions are effectively translated into execution.

Cross-Functional Leadership & Coordination

• Lead cross-functional project teams with appropriate structure, clarity of purpose, meeting discipline, and documented decision-making.
• Establish clear ownership of project deliverables and drive follow-through against agreed commitments and milestones.
• Identify issues requiring cross-functional alignment and facilitate resolution, escalating significant trade-offs or barriers when appropriate.
• Build effective relationships across R&D, Marketing, Supply, Finance, Category and other functions to enable successful delivery.

Risk, Opportunity & Scenario Management

• Lead project-level risk identification, assessment, mitigation, and ongoing monitoring.
• Identify project risks, dependencies, resource constraints, and opportunities early and ensure appropriate mitigation plans are established.
• Facilitate scenario development and provide clear project information to support timely decision-making.
• Escalate material risks, trade-offs, or decisions requiring broader business or portfolio leadership.

Portfolio Visibility & Decision Support

• Facilitate effective strategic cross-functional decision-making by bringing forward clear project insights, risks, options, and recommendations.
• Ensure project assumptions and business case inputs are appropriately challenged and validated.
• Highlight emerging changes to scope, timing, resources, cost, or risk that may affect project or portfolio commitments.
• Provide accurate project information, risks, dependencies, milestones, and recommendations to support governance discussions.

Key Measurement / Performance Indicators

• Projects achieve agreed scope, timing, cost, and quality expectations.
• Project risks, dependencies, and issues are identified early, actively managed, and escalated appropriately.
• Projects are highest‑value opportunities with timely, high‑quality decision inputs.
• Business cases and project plans reflect clear strategic thinking and trade-offs.
• Project teams demonstrate clear ownership, accountability, and effective cross-functional ways of working.
• Stakeholders recognize the Project Manager as a credible project leader and valued cross-functional partner.

Experience Required

• Typically these skills are acquired with a Bachelor’s degree or equivalent relevant experience.
• Typically 4–6 years of relevant professional experience, including 3+ years leading multiple cross-functional projects at one time, in a matrixed organization.
• Demonstrated experience managing projects through defined governance processes, ideally within consumer healthcare, CPG, pharmaceutical, medical device, or a similarly complex product environment.
• Working knowledge of consumer, category and commercial considerations, with the ability to understand how business priorities affect project execution.
• Ability to understand project financials, resource implications, and business case inputs and incorporate those considerations into project planning and recommendations.
• Experience facilitating decision-making and influencing stakeholders across multiple functions.
• PMP or equivalent project management certification preferred but not required.