Innovation Project Manager

• Location: Brisbane (Preferred) Open to Sydney

• Hybrid 2/day Work from home

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: to bring health in people's hands by making self-care as simple as it should be for over half a billion consumers worldwide.​

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 four specialized science and innovation development centers. ​

Headquartered in France, Opella is the proud maker of many of the world's most loved brands, including Natures Own, Cenovis, Ostelin, Telfast, Buscopan and Bisolvon.

B Corp certified in multiple markets, we are active players in the journey towards healthier people and planet.​

Find out more about our mission to bring health in your hands at ​

About the job:

As the Innovation Project Manager – AMEA, you will drive end to end innovation initiatives across the consumer healthcare portfolio to drive growth & fuel Australia and the region's innovation ambition.  This role plays a critical part in translating consumer insights and business opportunities into commercially viable solutions with speed and precision.    

You will collaborate cross-functionally to shape innovation pipelines, manage project execution, and ensure timely market delivery. This role demands an outcome-obsessed mindset, strategic influencing, agility, and the courage to challenge convention in pursuit of competitive advantage.

You are expected to drive measurable business outcomes, enhance consumer relevance, and enable long-term brand and category growth across diverse AMEA markets.

Main Responsibilities:

• Lead cross-functional project teams to deliver innovation initiatives from concept to launch, with full accountability for scope, timeline, budget, and value creation

• Define and drive project strategies aligned with business objectives and functional input, ensuring consumer relevance and commercial viability

• Manage the full project lifecycle, including scope, schedules, risks, resources, and financials, applying agile and outcome-focused methodologies

• Facilitate project alignment through structured kick-off, planning workshops, and recurring team meetings to monitor progress, resolve issues, and enable fast decision-making

• 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

• Perform risk management strategies as required and take necessary risk mitigation steps

• Provide project updates, KPIs and business impact metric with stakeholders

• Conduct post-launch reviews and champion continuous improvement by capturing learnings and embedding best practices.

• Actively contribute to the innovation project management community by sharing knowledge, tools, and standards across teams and regions.

About you:

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in Science, Pharmacy, Business, Marketing or related field.

Experience:

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

• Proven track record of delivering innovation projects end-to-end, with measurable business impact (e.g. sales growth, speed-to-market, consumer engagement)

• Strong understanding of consumer behavior, health trends and regulatory environments in consumer healthcare (an advantage)

• Experience working across Australia and other markets within AMEA (Asia Pacific, Middle-East & Africa) good to have.

Soft and Technical Skills:

• 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

• Prior experience in managing cross – functional teams across multiple geographies

• Excellent communication & influencing skill

• Strong stakeholder management and ability to interact with senior leaders

• Outcome obsessed mindset, comfortable with ambiguity.

Why us?

At Opella, you will enjoy doing challenging, purposeful work, empowered to develop consumer brands with passion and creativity. This is your chance to grow new skills and be part of a bold, collaborative, and inclusive culture where people can thrive and be at their best every day.

We Are Challengers.

We are dedicated to making self-care as simple as it should be. That starts with our culture. We are challengers by nature, and this is how we do things:

All In Together: We keep each other honest and have each other's backs.

Courageous: We break boundaries and take thoughtful risks with creativity.

Outcome-Obsessed: We are personally accountable, driving sustainable impact and results with integrity.

Radically Simple: We strive to make things simple for us and simple for consumers, as it should be.

Join us on our mission. Health. In your hands.

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