Product Change Manager

Description:

Ensure that projects are completed on time and within budget.

Project governance, funding, timeline development, and the complete project readiness to go live.

Serves as a lead for commercialization projects that result in a new or changing product and/or package.

Management of the total project timeline for on-time delivery of all agreed and resourced projects within cost and quality parameters.

Working closely with cross-functional team members from Marketing, Sales, Manufacturing, Research and Development, Quality, Finance, Procurement, and Customer Service and Logistic.

Provides perspective for the execution of project timelines and processes.

Serve as the I2M expert identifying opportunities and making recommendations to leadership.

Able to identify key learnings and successes for future projects, and in leveraging their understanding of the big picture as well as the details of projects, effectively negotiate and influence organizational leadership.

Manage timelines for new product launches and productivity initiatives.

Manage product development through commercialization using I2M process.

Identify, track and mitigate risks with particular attention to critical path activities.

Work with local and global colleagues to develop sourcing solutions for new products or complexity reduction at current sourcing location.

Solid understanding of the supply chain operational management agenda with regard to cost of goods sold, capacity, logistics, planning, capital, safety and quality.

Facilitate development of a project fact base with other functions, define options, clearly understand trade-offs and escalate concerns/issues.

Support the business delivery of overall financial targets.

Drive consistency and quality in the execution of projects using the appropriate methodology and tools.

Identify, assess, and mitigate project-level risks and escalate them to global leads and/ or the program manager when needed.

Provide project reporting and status updates using scorecards, status reports and monthly review meetings and leading stakeholder meetings.

Lead budget management, resource planning and utilization.

Confirm the completion and consistency of projects and their readiness to go live.

Qualifications:

B.S. degree in: Operations Management, Engineering, Chemistry, Food Science or related field of study

3 + years of experience in a role focused on new product launches (either project management, Research and Development or Manufacturing)

Must have current Project Management experience

PMP certification is a plus

Proven experience in project management methodology

Excellent communication skills and able to drive effective discussions with project resources from tactical execution level up to steering committee members

Excellent project planning and proactiveness in identifying risks and mitigations and managing strict timelines

Strong focus on cost, schedule and quality of project delivery

Knowledge of relevant business processes and related technology solutions

Stakeholder management and ability to influence positively in decision making

Proven ability in building effective teams across internal and external partners

Strong conceptual and analytic skills – enjoys problem solving

Excellent project management and organizational skills Influencing and negotiating skills

Attention to detail

Ability to deal with complexity

Strong interpersonal, written and verbal communication skills

Multi-lingual capabilities are beneficial

Able to communicate w/different levels of management in the organization.

Must be very comfortable with uncertainty

Must be proficient in Microsoft Office (Excel, Word, Power Point, Outlook and Project)

Synectics Inc.