Digital Health Innovation Project Manager

The Digital Health Team in Danone is part of the Medical & Nutrition Science team located in DLab Singapore. We work in the R&I domain and develop digital health initiatives for Danone, to impact health globally and locally and contribute to value creation for people/patients and business via digital technologies.

Project Initiation and Planning

• Assist in Project Planning: Support the development of project plans, timelines, and budgets, ensuring alignment with digital health team goals.
• Coordinate Team Activities: Facilitate communication and coordination among project team members, including internal stakeholders and external partners.

Execution and Coordination

• Facilitate Meetings: Organize and participate in project meetings, ensuring clear communication and follow-up with all stakeholders.
• Manage Documentation: Maintain project documentation, including meeting minutes, project plans, and digital health solution details.
• Support Risk Management: Identify potential risks and assist in developing mitigation strategies, ensuring project quality and stability.

Monitoring and Reporting

• Monitor Project Progress: Track project milestones and deliverables to ensure timely completion within scope and budget.
• Prepare Reports: Generate regular status reports, reviews, and updates for senior management, including scientific evidence, business, and health impact data.
• Quality Assurance: Help ensure that project deliverables meet quality standards, Danone's best practices, legal, regulatory affairs aspects, and support the activation and monitoring of digital health solutions.

Innovation and Scaling

• Innovation: Translate cutting-edge technology and scientific work into robust, scalable services and products. Partner and build our own technologies and services for global use.
• Scout and Pilot New Technology: Stay up to date with emerging technologies, scout new innovations, and convert them into concrete pilot initiatives to enhance digital health solutions.
• Continuous Improvement: Contribute to process improvement initiatives within the team, leveraging insights from digital health projects.
• Scaling: Support digital products launches/activations in key countries.

About You

To be successful in this role, you will need:

The following technical skills and experience:

• At least a BSc. Degree in a relevant field (e.g., nutrition, food science, digital health, business, health sciences, information technology, biomedical engineering or equivalent).
• 1-3 years of work experience in project management or a related role.
• Capabilities to translate concepts and business challenges into digital health tools with measurable impact on the portfolio.
• Familiar with product/software development methodologies, such as waterfall, Agile/Scrum, and/or design thinking.
• Know how on the basics of software development and IT.
• Familiarity with digital health technologies.
• Experience in healthcare, including homecare, nursing homes, and pharmacies, with a focus on frailty, oncology, or adult therapeutic areas.
• Project management certification (IPMA, PRINCE2, or similar) preferred but not essential.
• Proficiency in using communication and collaboration tools (e.g., Microsoft Teams) to facilitate remote work.
• Fluency in English.

These soft skills:

• Ability to be fast and concrete in communication and decision-making.
• Simplify and prioritize tasks, demonstrating effective communication skills and creativity.
• High level of reliability and accountability, ensuring commitments are met, and expectations are clearly communicated.
• Capability to handle unclarity, being comfortable in a new environment with unexplored ground.
• Consumer centric with strong interpersonal skills to manage collaboration with colleagues from different cultures.
• Ability to understand science and turn it into digital assets.
• Persistence in overcoming challenges and achieving project goals.
• Strong organizational and multitasking skills.
• Strong leadership skills to lead project strategy and embrace feedback.
• Make decisions based on facts, maintaining good project quality and providing regular updates.
• Be agile, open to being pushed outside of comfort zone, and lead by example.

About Us

Flexibility

Do things your way. At Danone Singapore, we empower teams to work flexibly – our hybrid working policy allows a balance of homeworking and office working.

Focus on Development – Your Way

With a suite of learning opportunities and a strong focus on in-role development, your line manager will help unlock your career ambitions. You’ll work with global brands, enjoying a fast-paced environment.

Our Values

We live by our core ‘HOPE’ values – H for Humanism, O for Openness, P for Proximity, and E for Enthusiasm, aiming to bring health through food to as many people as possible.

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) is embedded in Danone's DNA, embracing diversity as a force for change, nurturing an inclusive workplace.

Join our movement for a healthier world. One Planet One Health BY YOU.