Digital Health Innovation (Associate) Project Manager

• On-site
• Posted: 14 Apr 2025

About the job

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.
• 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 and maintain regular contact with the overseas manager.
• Fluency in English language.

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 that commitments are met, and expectations are clearly communicated. This aligns with the principle of "do what you say and say what you do".
• Capability to handle unclarity, being comfortable in an environment that is new with unexplored ground.
• Consumer centric and strong interpersonal skills to manage productive collaboration with colleagues from different cultural backgrounds. Cross-location and cross-functionally.
• Ability to understand science and to turn it into digital assets.
• Persistence in overcoming challenges and achieving project goals. Not giving up, being flexible, and having the ability to reinvest yourself and your work.
• Strong organizational and multitasking skills, with the ability to work both independently and as part of a team.
• Strong leadership skills to lead project strategy, empower team members, and embrace feedback with the right mindset.
• Make decisions based on facts, ensure project tasks are completed on time, transparent in mistakes and learn from mistakes, maintain good project quality, and provide regular updates to support successful teamwork.
• Be agile, be open to be pushed outside of comfort zone and lead by example.

About Danone

Flexibility

Do things your way. At Danone Singapore, we believe that our teams work best when they are empowered to work flexibly – this is why our hybrid working policy allows you to agree the right balance of homeworking and office working, in line with yours and the team’s needs.

Focus on development – your way

With a suite of learning opportunities and a strong focus on in-role development, your line manager will work closely with you to help unlock your career ambitions within Danone. Working here you will enjoy a fast-paced, complex environment, which is packed with opportunities for the entrepreneurial spirit. You’ll work with some of the best-known brands in the world, such as evian, Dumex and Aptamil, and we absolutely guarantee that you can just be yourself.

Our values
We live by our core ‘HOPE’ values – H is for Humanism, as people are at the heart of everything we do. O is for Openness, welcoming new ideas from the world we live in. P is for Proximity, as we believe that building close relationships leads to better understanding and trust. E is for Enthusiasm, for those who are as passionate as we are about bringing health through food to as many people as possible.

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) is deeply embedded in Danone's DNA, representing our core values and beliefs. We embrace diversity as a driving force for positive change, nurturing an inclusive workplace where every individual is valued.

Join our movement for a healthier world. One Planet One Health BY YOU. For more information about Danone, our divisions and culture, please visit careers.danone.com.

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Job details

Dedicated to bringing health through food to as many people as possible, we are a leading global food & beverage company built on four businesses: Essential Dairy and Plant-Based Products, Waters, Early Life Nutrition and Medical Nutrition.