Global Product Owner

Haleon • Warren Township, NJ

1d • $141,305 - $194,294 • Hybrid

About The Position

The Global Product Owner leads and owns the global technical strategy for a product or product family, ensuring consistent quality and robustness across all manufacturing sites. This role is crucial for maintaining and improving product quality, driving efficiency, and ensuring compliance with global regulatory standards. The Global Product Owner will work closely with various teams, including manufacturing, R&D, QA, and procurement, to manage the product lifecycle, implement continuous improvement programs, and provide technical leadership for complex investigations and technology transfers.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Science, Engineering Pharmacy or related science discipline.
• 10 years of technical experience in consumer products.
• Product Lifecycle Management activities (Quality Events- Change Control, Deviation, CAPA’s, trial and validation reports author/reviewer/approver as appropriate, risk assessment author/reviewer/approver as appropriate), understanding of the auditing world.
• Good knowledge of product manufacturing processes including unit operation understanding, device/packaging processes, plant equipment and analytical testing.
• Previous experience in the development of conventional and potentially novel formulation dosage forms.
• Thorough understanding of Drug and Food GMPs as relevant to Haleon products as well as familiar with FDA, European and global regularity requirements, such as ICH Excellent understanding of scientific and commercial aspects of Consumer Healthcare industry

Nice To Haves

• Master’s or PhD.
• PMP, Agile, Program Management or Portfolio Management certifications.
• Previous Oral Heath category experience.
• Strong business leadership and commercial acumen.
• Extensive project and portfolio management experience in complex matrix organizations.
• Ability to connect business objectives, technical possibilities and operational execution.
• Ability to influence without authority and manage executive stakeholders effectively.
• Expertise in governance, stage-gate management, risk management and change control.
• Track record of coaching and mentoring scientists and peers to build strong collaborative teams working in a high-performance environment in a culture that values scientific rigor and empowerment.
• External communication and/or network with regulators, external collaborators and/or scientific experts where needed.
• Effective relationship building, influencing and organizational and project management skills. Good oral and written communication skills at all levels within the organization; strong technical writing capability
• Proficient in Medical Device regulation knowledge relevant to project delivery.
• Experienced in negotiating and agreeing timelines and milestones with sponsors/ business partners and continually monitoring progress to ensure timely delivery.
• Deep understanding of Quality of Design (QbD), Operational Excellence (OE) and Value Engineering/ Design to Value.
• Demonstrated a sense of curiosity and appetite to learn by themselves.
• Site experience highly desired for practical application of the above.
• Operational experience with the ability to ideate and execute technical changes that drive growth and productivity.

Responsibilities

• Ensures that all aspects of Product Quality Lifecycle management are applied to the product(s) including a current Technical Risk Assessment, Product Control Strategy.
• Ensures a data driven continuous improvement program is in place for the dose forms/ products driving quality, cost and efficiency improvements.
• Proactively analyzes manufacturing, analytical, and stability performance trends, escalates significant findings to the TRB, and recommends continuous improvements.
• Is involved as required in the assessment and management of all aspects of post-approval change to ensure that product quality is maintained, and the appropriate change controls are in place.
• Provides technical leadership and input into root cause analyses to support complex investigations and resolution of product complaints and product deviations and investigations, in conjunction with QA and sites/CMOs.
• Assesses new raw material suppliers and work with Material Science and procurement teams on the interpretation of data to approve new alternative raw material suppliers.
• Provides technical justification with high-quality standards to Health Authorities on global brands when required and linked to product lifecycle management and/or maintenance project.
• Ensures all work by the team is conducted in accordance with written procedures (e.g. quality and safety), methods & batch documents, etc.
• Produces, contributes, or approves, departmental quality documentation (including SOP's, batch documentation, manufacturing protocols & reports, product specifications & development reports).
• Provides technical leadership during technology transfer of products into Supply Chain from R&D and out to other sites ensuring Quality by Design principles are applied and a robust, well understood process is transferred with a well-defined and appropriate Product Control Strategy.
• Provides technical product advice and training to site product owners and key stakeholders ensuring that sites have appropriate product knowledge and training to fully execute the Product Control Strategies.

Benefits

• competitive pay
• comprehensive benefits program
• generous 401(k) plan
• tuition reimbursement
• time off programs
• 6 months paid parental leave
• healthcare programs where the company pays for the majority of your medical coverage for you and your family
• discretionary bonus based on the achievement of key business performance
• other incentive/recognition programs

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior