Project Manager, New Product Development

Description

• Schedule and lead cross-functional team meetings
• Break down major milestones into smaller deliverables
• Leadership: Act as the point of contact for all matters related to your projects. Schedule regular project meetings and provide agendas, notes, and action items. Drive projects to deliver products meeting scope, schedule, and budget.
• Resourcing: Work with organizations to identify project resource needs, and resolve resource constraints within projects.
• Holds project status update meetings, communicates status regularly and is the point of contact for assigned projects.
• Manages the identification, impact, mitigation, and communication of risks.
• Work with product line managers to review product specifications, and develop project estimates (scope, schedule, budget, technical feasibility, risk)
• Assist Management with developing and maintaining the project management process
• Manages project/program planning and execution, stage-gate approvals, and deployment planning meetings.
• Take thorough meeting minutes, assign action items, and follow up on open actions
• Build out project schedules utilizing the waterfall and/or agile methodologies
• As project team leader, has responsibility and authority necessary to keep project on track, escalates to managers and Product Committee as appropriate.
• Planning: Effectively lead project teams to develop early stage project plans when details and designs are not fixed, and update and align plans as projects, products, and processes are developed and executed.
• Organizes the project team to carry out the project plan with assistance from function managers.
• Self-Direction: Priorities are set from department manager. Manage their own workload and coordinate with project teams and outside organizations during project execution to meet overall desired timelines.
• Identifies and manages the delivery of all project deliverables with team members.
• Develops a budget for the project, tracks project expenditures including coordination of purchase orders, tracks man hours and other resources spent on the project.
• Work with product line managers and engineering teams to evaluate initial product specifications and provide guidance on technical risks and estimated schedule, budgets, and product costs.
• Align projects and programs with larger organizational initiatives and direction.
• Maintain project documentation and contribute to project Gate meetings
• Manage and review project milestone documents to ensure completion
• Executes and delivers projects/programs on-scope, on-time, on-budget, with quality and customer satisfaction - promoting and executing using project management methodologies and tools, and a continuous improvement mindset.
• Manages, tracks, documents, and communicates all changes to the project (e.g. Scope, Schedule).
• Use Smartsheet to track project schedules, budgets, and dashboards

Requirements

• Exhibits strong cultural sensitivity necessary for good communication and building effective partnerships with local, regional, and foreign resources and teams.
• Ability to work with Mechanical, Electrical, and Software Engineers for the design of products that are internet connected (ioT).
• Communication: Clearly communicate with and between project teams, and throughout the organization to drive projects. Clearly and effectively communicate risks and support needs upwards.
• Knowledge of project management methodologies.
• Problem Solving: Ability to understand and communicate problems, and lead project teams to collaborate on potential solution paths.
• Must be able to travel (regionally and internationally). Expectation is less than 10% travel.
• Knowledge of UL requirements.
• Must have excellent verbal and written communications skills and be able to communicate effectively across all levels of the organization. Must be an effective listener, able to maintain focus extract necessary information and validate understanding of the information.
• Requires strong organizational and time management skills, close attention to detail and be able to effectively handle multiple priorities and multiple projects.
• Ability to use internet and web based resources efficiently and effectively.
• Knowledge of ISO 9001 requirements.
• Experience leading cross-functional teams and managing multiple projects effectively.
• Strong computer skills, especially in project management software along with being proficient with word processing, spreadsheet and presentation software, e-mail and meeting management software.
• Ideally have product design experience with electro-mechanical assembly design.
• Must understand and have experience in all aspects of the new product development life cycle; understand product life cycle overall.
• Must possess excellent project management skills, including demonstrated ability to develop and manage to a project plan, establish priorities, work to deadlines and control multiple projects at various stages of work.
• Ideally have experience with designing products for low cost and high-volume manufacturing processes.

Benefits

Training + Development

Interview process

Visa Sponsorship

Security clearance