Project Manager

The Project Manager will require excellent organizational skills as well as the ability to manage multiple projects, while paying close attention to detail. This role partners with cross-functional teams and stakeholders to deliver high-impact projects that drive operational efficiency and support our long-term business goals. The ideal candidate is a proactive leader with strong organizational skills, capable of managing multiple projects across the full lifecycle using Agile, Waterfall, or hybrid methodologies.

Essential Duties & Responsibilities :

• Lead cross-functional project teams utilizing internal and external resources to implement projects and ensure goals are being met by prioritizing, monitoring and executing workflows
• Guide large projects through the Product Development Process, following a phase-gate project management approach
• Collaborate with a wide variety of functional areas such as Sales, Marketing, Finance, Product Management, Supply Chain, Industrial Design, Engineering, Operations, and Executive Leadership
• Translate business needs into clear functional and technical specifications
• Manage project timelines, Gantt charts, deliverables, budgets (CapEx & OpEx), and dependencies
• Facilitate effective meetings and milestone presentations to ensure alignment and progress
• Deliver project status updates and steering committee reports highlighting progress, risks, and key decisions
• Drive strategic process improvements and foster interdepartmental collaboration
• Support resource planning and workload management based on long-range product plans
• Contribute to PMO practices by applying established procedures, tools, and templates
• Propose and administrate overall and individual project budgets including both capitalizable and non-capitalizable expenses (Capex & OpEx) in alignment with company's overall financial plan
• Help facilitate financial and technical justification for product selection and developmental projects
• Coordinate all phases of product development life cycle through introduction to market by effectively guiding handoff of projects between various departments
• Accountable for delivering to the agreed upon business case metrics for each project such as milestone dates, product launch dates, material cost, and development budgets
• Assist in tracking and management of individual and departmental workloads to effectively utilize staff based on long-rang product plan (LRPP) commitments
• Effectively engage with and manage external design and tooling vendor relationships, including the procurement of quotes based on well-defined scope of work documents created in collaboration with Engineering and Design and management of corresponding project spend in alignment with approved project budgets
• Proactively escalate risks, issues, and changes, offering solutions and facilitating joint problem-solving
• Maintain transparent and concise project documentation and communication

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