Innovation Project Manager

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 Allegra, Buscopan, Doliprane, Dulcolax, Enterogermina, Essentiale and Mucosolvan. 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 www.opella.com.

About the job

Location: Istanbul, Europe

You’ve built experience, now use it where bold ideas meet real impact. At Opella, we’re challenging how self-care works for millions of people and needs leaders and experts ready to shape what’s next. As Innovation Project Manager of Opella, you’ll bring your skill, your curiosity and your drive to make health simpler, smarter and more human.

Key Responsibilities

• Cross-functional team leadershipLead cross-functional project teams to drive innovation initiatives from concept to launch, with full accountability for scope, timeline, budget, and value creation.
• Facilitate project alignment through structured kick-off, planning workshops, and recurring team meetings to monitor progress, resolve issues, and enable fast decision-making.
• Manage the full project lifecycle, including scope, schedules, risks, resources, and financials, applying agile and outcome-focused methodologies.
• Define and drive project strategies aligned with business objectives and functional input, ensuring consumer relevance and commercial viability.
• Perform risk management strategies as required and take necessary risk mitigation steps.Support for decision-making and stakeholder engagement.
• 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.
• Provide project updates, KPIs and business impact metric with stakeholders.
• Support post-launch reviews and champion continuous improvement by capturing learnings and embedding best practices.

Qualifications & Experience

• Experience in delivering or supporting innovation projects end-to-end, with measurable business impact (e.g. sales growth, speed-to-market, consumer engagement).
• Experience in managing cross-functional teams.
• Preferably with 8+ years' experience in innovation, project management or product development in the consumer healthcare, OTC, personal care, food, FMCG industries.
• Excellent stakeholder management, collaboration and influence skills.
• High emotional intelligence and sound judgement.
• 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.
• Strong stakeholder management and ability to interact with senior leaders.
• Ability to navigate complexity, ambiguity and change.
• Strong action orientation and ability to get things done well.

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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