VP – Global Capital, Project Management and Construction Lead

Job title:

VP – Global Capital, Project Management and Construction Lead

Company

Haleon

Job description

Hello. We’re Haleon. A new world-leading consumer health company. Shaped by all who join us. Together, we’re improving everyday health for billions of people. By growing and innovating our global portfolio of category-leading brands – including Sensodyne, Panadol, Advil, Voltaren, Theraflu, Otrivin, and Centrum – through a unique combination of deep human understanding and trusted science. What’s more, we’re achieving it in a company that we’re in control of. In an environment that we’re co-creating. And a culture that’s uniquely ours. Care to join us. It isn’t a question.This is an exciting time to join us and help shape the future. It’s an opportunity to be part of something special.In this new role, the Global Capital, Project Management and Construction Lead will drive the project management, construction management, and construction design expertise for a major global expansion of the Haleon business over the next 5 years.This role ensures capital spend is governed to meet compliance and delivers projects with excellence: design criteria met at the best value and schedule safely. You’ll be an expert in the best-in-class capital management, project management and construction practices, and build the capability of the sites and regions to become experts in capital, project, and construction management. This role is in the field providing direct leadership and coaching of major expansions to ensure design and construction meets the Haleon standards at cost and schedule.This role will provide YOU the opportunity to lead key activities to progress YOUR career, these responsibilities include some of the following…Lead the project/construction management and construction design of large programs(
~£100m +) ensuring the global capital management, project management and construction standards are met; preventing financial compliance and safety risks along with meeting the business objective of the programs.Define and integrate in latest best practices/tools and methodology for capital, project and construction management, and overall construction design to meet the expectation of building best in class facilities that meet our cost, cash, sustainability and safety goals.Provide hands on coaching for more complex/medium size global projects around the globe to ensure adherence to the global capital management, project management and construction standards.Lead a team of capital, project, and construction managers to manage the global capital forecast, design facilities and utilities and construct to meet regional and global construction requirements.Develop, train and audit the capital, construction, and project managers around the globe to the new Haleon standards.Communicate to the Haleon Exec Team for large program funding alignment, project updates, risk alignment and risk mitigation strategies.You’ll need to demonstrate the following…This leader needs to be very experienced in project and construction management of multiple large programs in regions across the globe. Experience with leading the construction of global manufacturing plants/sites is required.You’ll have experience in engineering plant construction including the technical aspects of civil, electrical, mechanical, and structural. This includes knowledge of international building codes and standards.You’ll partner effectively with procurement to negotiate pricing and timing for globally sourced materials and equipment. You’ll expertly navigate different regional regulatory environments, cultural difference, and logistical challenges in various countries.The leader is managing the complexity of unknown engineering challenges with the building construction due to weather, staffing, infrastructure gaps within a region, land instability, engineering misses, equipment and material delays, etc. This leader needs to be agile and navigate the new daily challenges that they will face.These challenges could have millions of capital/NPV cost impact to a program and this leader needs to navigate methods to prevent or remediate these losses while communicating the risks to the key stakeholders.You will manage the challenges of defining the best-in-class technical solutions that build for tomorrow at affordable capital costs that deliver strong NPVs. You’ll also identify suppliers that can deliver the programs in a very competitive construction staffing market.This leader is the expert on the compliance rules for managing capital. This leader is challenged with building this capability and auditing sites and leaders to ensure compliance.This leader will enable the growth of the capacity of the brands across the globe at pace. You’ll touch every region and is enabling building the QSC plant infrastructure for the next 30 years. You’ll interface with leaders throughout the company across all functions and externally with global engineering and construction suppliers and government officials (purchase land, secure permits etc) to enable the expansions.This role is interfacing internally with the entire company/all the functions/all levels to communicate the scope and cost of the expansion programs, gain alignment, and provide ongoing status updates on the progress and support needed to successfully execute the investments. You’ll need to have the leadership and knowledge to represent Haleon externally when locking permits for construction of large programs. You’ll also partner with purchasing negotiating externally with equipment suppliers. Finally, you’ll also sit on numerous technical boards for construction representing Haleon.Why you?Basic Qualifications:We are looking for professionals with these required skills to achieve our goals:Engineering degree or equivalent.15-20 + years global experience in engineering and construction.Proven track record of supporting the design and build of greenfield pharma/healthcare/chemical or FMCG plants/sites globally.Proven capital, project and construction management experience.Financial acumen and budget managementStrong people leader able to build and motivate teams.Experience in building capital and project management capabilities within MNC organisations.Able to influence key stakeholders and build relationships.Experience presenting to executive/board level leaders.Preferred Qualifications:If you have the following characteristics, it would be a plus:Masters Engineering with construction specialty.Please save a copy of the Job Description, as this will not be available post closure of the advert.#LI-REMOTE or #LI-HYBRIDWhen applying for this role, please use the ‘cover letter’ of the online application or your CV to describe how you meet the competencies for this role, as outlined in the job requirements above. The information that you have provided in your cover letter and CV will be used to assess your application.Why Join Us?The future of everyday health is changing. And we’re the people changing it. In front of us is an incredible opportunity to go beyond what any of us have done before. And make everyday health more achievable, more inclusive and more sustainable. For more and more people. So, join us, as we build one of the world’s leading consumer healthcare companies. Join us to innovate our category-leading brands. To better understand people’s everyday health needs. To tackle the biggest barriers that stand in their way. To change individual and societal behaviour. Join us to work with colleagues who share your restless energy. To explore your interests. To stretch yourself to do the best work of your career. And join us, as together we build a working experience that encourages us all to lead happier, healthier, more productive lives. The way we see it, every day is an opportunity for better. And we’re going all in to realize it.Care to join us. Find out what life at Haleon is really like www.haleon.com/careers/At Haleon we embrace our diverse workforce by creating an inclusive environment that celebrates our unique perspectives, generates curiosity to create unmatched understanding of each other, and promotes fair and equitable outcomes for everyone. We’re striving to create a climate where we celebrate our diversity in all forms by treating each other with respect, listening to different viewpoints, supporting our communities, and creating a workplace where your authentic self belongs and thrives. We believe in an agile working culture for all our roles. If flexibility is important to you, we encourage you to explore with our hiring team what the opportunities are.As you apply, we will ask you to share some personal information, which is entirely voluntary. We want to have an opportunity to consider a diverse pool of qualified candidates and this information will assist us in meeting that objective and in understanding how well we are doing against our inclusion and diversity ambitions. We would really appreciate it if you could take a few moments to complete it. Rest assured, Hiring Managers do not have access to this information and we will treat your information confidentially.Haleon is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive equal consideration for employment without regard to race, color, national origin, religion, sex, pregnancy, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, age, disability, genetic information, military service, covered/protected veteran status or any other federal, state or local protected class.Accommodation RequestsIf you require a reasonable accommodation or other assistance to apply for a job at Haleon at any stage of the application process, please let your recruiter know by providing them with a description of specific accommodations you are requesting. We’ll provide all reasonable accommodations to support you throughout the recruitment process and treat all information you provide us in confidence.

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Location

Bankside, South East London

Job date

Fri, 28 Feb 2025 05:16:53 GMT

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