Senior Project Manager – Lifecycle Management

At Cooper Consumer Health, we’re building a legacy. Are you ready to be part of it? Cooper Consumer Health is one of Europe’s leading consumer healthcare groups, delivering trusted OTC solutions that empower healthier living every day. Our portfolio includes powerhouse brands such as Armolipid, Saugella, Mag2, Valdispert, Oenobiol, Excilor, Vitascorbol, Betadine, and many more. Over the past 4 years, we’ve grown from €500 million to €1.2 billion in revenue, driven by both strategic acquisitions and strong organic performance. Today, our strong European footprint spans France, Italy, the Netherlands, Belgium, Spain, Portugal, Belux, DACH and beyond — and we’re just getting started. We’re not just growing and transforming the industry. We are creating our legacy. Why us? If you’re looking to be part of a high-performing, collaborative, and forward-thinking team — where your ideas matter and your impact is real — join us on our mission to empower healthier living across Europe. At Cooper Consumer Health, we combine the agility of entrepreneurs with the scale and ambition of an established leader. Our values are embedded in everything we do:
• Just own it. We are entrepreneurs to make it happen.
• Choose to do it right: We partner with colleagues & customers while caring for consumer’s health.
• Stronger together : We COOPERate to thrive as ONE TEAM.
• Enjoy outperforming: We deliver value creation now and for the future with passion and can-do attitude. Ready to make your mark? Join us. We are a European consumer healthcare company (OTC medicines, medical devices, food supplements, cosmetics). Our products are made in our own plants and at external CMOs and sold in many markets. Our portfolio keeps changing: new suppliers, pack changes, regulatory updates, cost-improvement projects, site moves. Lifecycle Management makes sure each change gets approved, implemented and onto the shelf, with no break in supply. We are looking for a senior Project Manager to own a portfolio of these projects, from business case to market implementation, and to lead tech transfers when the portfolio needs them. Our Tech Services team is small and runs on AI. We don't build status reports or committee decks by hand: our tools generate them from the project data. That means our PMs spend their time where it matters, which is driving projects and solving problems. WHAT YOU WILL DO
• Own a portfolio of LCM projects end to end: supplier and API source changes, formulation and pack changes, regulatory-driven updates, cost improvements and CMO changes. You take each one from feasibility and business case through variation approval and artwork to the first batch on market.
• Own the plan and the critical path, including the multi-market dependencies: approval timing by country, artwork, stability, run-out of old stock and phase-in of the new.
• Challenge Manufacturing, Regulatory, Quality, Supply Chain and CMOs on dates and assumptions. Go into the detail when a milestone is at risk.
• Lead tech transfers between sites and CMOs when they are part of your portfolio.
• Track cost against the business case and prepare stage-gate decisions with a clear recommendation.
• Work with AI every day: let agents draft your status, chase open actions and check your project data, so you can focus on decisions.
• Improve the way we work: when something is manual and repetitive, help us automate it. You don't need to code, because the team and the tools support you. HOW WE WORK
• Committee material and portfolio KPIs are generated from our database, not assembled in PowerPoint.
• Every PM works with AI assistants that are connected to our tools and our data.
• We would rather see a working prototype than a 30-slide deck.
• Everyone contributes to the team's tool library, so a good idea from one PM becomes everyone's too This is a permanent role with real ownership of a high-impact portfolio and direct access to decision-makers. You will join a team that is redesigning project management with AI and building its own tools, and you will help shape them. MUST-HAVE
• 8+ years in pharma or consumer health, including at least 3 years in an industrial, technical operations or regulatory CMC role.
• Several LCM projects led end to end, through variation approval and implementation in several markets.
• Solid working knowledge of EU variations, GMP change control and the artwork / pack change process.
• Experience driving external CMOs and suppliers.
• Proven ability to run several projects at once, autonomously.
• You already use AI in your daily work and want to go much further. Or, if you are not there yet, you are eager to make it your default way of working. You will not want to go back to doing by hand what a machine can do.
• Fluent in English NICE-TO-HAVE
• Tech transfers (site to site or to and from a CMO) led end to end.
• You have built something with AI yourself: an agent, an automation, or a tool your team actually uses.
• OTC, medical device, food supplement or cosmetics portfolios.
• Packaging sustainability regulations. THIS ROLE IS NOT FOR YOU IF… you see a status update as a deliverable, you enjoy formatting slides, or you think AI is a topic for later. Interviews with manager and HR