Program Manager (Asia & China)

Join the Worlds #1 Sports Nutrition brand!

Glanbia Performance Nutrition’s purpose is to inspire people everywhere to achieve their performance goals! We are the world’s leading premium sports nutrition company with Optimum Nutrition, Isopure, SlimFast, BSN, Amazing Grass and Nutramino among the brands in the portfolio today. We have ambitious plans for the future, and as a values-led organisation, we’re focused on driving sustainable business performance the right way.

The Opportunity
We are seeking a seasoned Projects Management professional with the ability to work in a fast paced and constantly evolving environment to join our team as a Program Manager (Asia and China). The ideal candidate will play a highly critical & visible role that will be accountable for actively managing all projects (Supply Chain Strategy, Technology, R&D) for South Korea, SEA, Japan, Taiwan, and China. 
The role will actively work with a business wide matrix team of functional leads based in the different local market units and international geographies to support.  Strong collaboration with cross functional teams and functional leads to ensure timely delivery of projects would be critical. In addition to having excellent organizational & project management skills, exposure to multiple functions including Supply Chain Processes and systems would be an advantage.

Principal Accountabilities 

Project Leadership:
•    Leadership and Management of projects end-to-end according to project timelines
•    Drive project team accountabilities to personal delivery 
•    Define all ownership roles and responsibilities for the project and establish regular governing and follow-up mechanisms.

Collaboration and Communication:
•    Provide full visibility of project status and delivery plan to all relevant governance stakeholder groups through total hands-on ownership.
•    Provision of ad hoc reports and clarifications to relevant senior stakeholders and broader business communications
•    Communicate to key stakeholders and other cross-functional team members by producing and circulating appropriate updates & minutes from meetings to convey works / project status as appropriate.
•    Ensure complete documentation of all project related documents in a timely and comprehensive manner.
•    Coordinate required approval documents or other requirements between internal and external teams.

Continuous Improvement:
•    Engagement with Group functions such as Tax, Treasury, Regulatory, Trade Compliance, GBS and Legal to remove any road-blocks for the project and provide additional bandwidth to operating team at times.

Key Challenges & Success Measures
•    Co-ordinating and directing all workstream leads to deliver the project on time and in full against agreed criteria and metrics.
•    Establishing an effective early-warning system for deadline challenges, developing appropriate work-around strategies and regular governing & follow-up mechanisms to ensure final end delivery on-time.
•    Able to communicate clearly across different cultures & cross-functional teams; provide coaching as required.
•    Able to manage own workload and balance competing priorities
•    Curious and wanting to learn and develop more within the Supply Chain space
•    Responsive to stakeholders

Skills, Know How and experience

•    Sound knowledge of Project Management with exposure in Supply Chain related projects.
•    Ability to work in a fast-paced environment.
•    Work across boundaries to build key relationships with customers both internally and externally.
•    Exceptional follow-up skills
•    Ability to get into the depth of project details but also able to provide an overall big picture to the leadership.
•    Outstanding analytical, problem solving and organizational abilities.
•    Extensive spreadsheet analysis and strong mathematical abilities
•    Exceptional English verbal and written communication skills
•    Ability to relate to variety of functional areas and interlinkages between different parts of any project and impact of moving items in one on the overall deliverables.
•    Strong interpersonal skills to effectively interact with all teams, areas and levels of business affecting the fulfilment process. 
•    Strong communication skills, both verbally and written

Where and how you will work

The opportunity will be based in our office located in Singapore with hybrid working arrangements available through our Smart working model which allows you a greater choice in how you work and live, giving you a better work-life balance.

What we would like to offer you!

The opportunity to develop your career on a global stage, continuous learning through an on-demand learning platform, and a competitive compensation package.

At Glanbia, we celebrate diversity, because we know that our individual strengths make us stronger together. We welcome and encourage interest from a variety of candidates, we will give your application consideration, without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender perception or identity, national origin, age, marital status, protected veteran status, or disability status.At Glanbia, our culture celebrates individuality, knowing that together we are more.