Regional Marketing PMO Lead

Job description

**Job Summary:** The Regional Marketing PMO Lead – GNPL & S&OP Excellence is accountable for driving end-to-end execution discipline, coordination, governance, and transparency across the regional Global New Product Launch (GNPL), New Product Launch (NPL), and S&OP processes across Europe & MECA. The role ensures that launch-related data, milestones, decisions, risks, and cross-functional actions are structured, tracked, and escalated in a disciplined way, enabling Marketing teams to focus on business strategy, demand generation, customer engagement, and commercial impact. **Job Responsibilities:** **End-to-End GNPL and NPL Process Management** - Own the coordination and governance of GNPL and NPL process execution across all relevant stages, from launch definition through readiness, commercialization, and post-launch follow-up. - Ensure all NPLs are fully defined, documented, and updated with required information, including launch dates, brand, SKU, packaging, forecast, registration, label approval, and country readiness status. **S&OP Preparation, Governance and Meeting Effectiveness** - Coordinate preparation for regional marketing S&OP forums by ensuring timely country inputs, complete data, clear risk visibility, and structured pre-read materials. - Improve S&OP effectiveness by shifting meetings from reporting to decision-making, prioritization, issue resolution, and escalation of critical red attention points. **SKU Creation and Data Quality Governance** - Monitor SKU request pipelines and ensure timely submission, complete templates, and accurate master data requirements for new launches and portfolio changes. - Coordinate with Marketing, Supply Chain, Master Data Management, Regulatory, and Finance teams to reduce delays, rework, incomplete submissions, and avoidable back-and-forth. **Demand and Forecast Coordination Support** - Ensure country and regional teams submit launch volume assumptions, forecast updates, risks, and comments within agreed timelines ahead of S&OP and system updates. - Check completeness and consistency of inputs across countries, products, SKUs, and launch waves, highlighting gaps for correction by accountable teams. **Cross-Functional Alignment and Stakeholder Management** - Act as the operational coordination point between Regional Marketing, Country Marketing, Global Portfolio, Supply Chain, Regulatory, Finance, Commercial Excellence, and other relevant functions. - Ensure clarity of ownership, timelines, dependencies, decisions, and escalation routes across all stakeholders involved in GNPL, NPL, and S&OP execution. **Reporting, Dashboards and Business Insights** - Develop and maintain practical launch readiness dashboards, risk trackers, action logs, milestone views, and management summaries for GNPL/NPL and S&OP governance. - Translate process data into actionable insights, highlighting risks, delays, decision points, and performance trends rather than providing reporting only. **Continuous Improvement and Process Excellence** - Identify inefficiencies, duplication, data errors, manual workload, unclear ownership, and process bottlenecks across GNPL, NPL, SKU creation, and S&OP routines. - Propose and implement improvements to workflows, templates, meeting cadence, governance routines, dashboards, and escalation mechanisms. **Required Experience:** - Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, Marketing, Supply Chain, Agriculture, Life Sciences, Engineering, Finance, or a related field. - Master’s degree, MBA, or project management certification preferred. - 6–10 years of experience in project management, PMO, marketing operations, S&OP, supply chain coordination, business operations, or commercial excellence. - Experience in crop protection, agriculture, life sciences, FMCG, chemicals, or another complex product-based industry preferred. - Strong understanding of cross-functional launch processes, milestone governance, data quality, reporting discipline, and matrix stakeholder management. - Proven ability to coordinate multiple countries, functions, timelines, and priorities in a fast-paced regional or global environment.