AddressResponsibilities:
- End to end ownership of the program, from ideation through release and selling
- Drive objective and timely decision-making to move programs forward and achieve objectives
- Collaborate with industry-aligned business unit managers to prioritize and sequence projects within the program
- Prepare proposals to ensure win-win-win in new programs
- Develop product vision and strategy with commercial and leadership team
- Drive new product roadmap execution in partnership with commercial representatives, and own activation and expectation setting
- Develop product vision/strategy with commercial team and ensure product roadmap will achieve vision
- Work with engineering in close collaboration to identify and apply trends and emergent capabilities to ensure product evolution
- Review competitor products and build competence about competitive landscape
- Drive and define feature, benefit, value stream in new product projects
- Align projects with resource requirement across teams
- Manage program communications across cross-functional teams (including Manufacturing, Engineering/Technical, Commercial etc.), delivering the right information to the right stakeholders at the right time
- Anticipate, mitigate and escalate program risks as well as resource constraints and conflicting priorities
- Build out clear change management protocols for successful releases
- Ensure program documentation is clear, including status updates, dashboards and documentation
- Mentor and manage project managers in consistent, best practices to effectively execute project scope
- Directly manage projects as needed
- Build necessary training for program releases, in partnership with other Program Managers
- Ensures that project and department milestones are met, cost is in alignment and the project scope is delivered
- Develop a toolkit for the program (Financial, Roadmap, Products etc.)
- Continually optimize and scale current processes
Requirements:
- Bachelor's degree (BS/BA) or equivalent
- 5+ years of experience in Project Management, Product Management, or a related field
- Proven experience in new product development within an R&D environment
- Willingness to travel (approximately 25%)
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office Programs and Smartsheet
- Strong ability to recognize and address urgency appropriately
- Comfort with technical concepts and the ability to communicate them effectively
- Strategic mindset, including the ability to evaluate trade-offs, define successful business strategies and product roadmaps, and secure buy-in from stakeholders at all levels
- Track record of effectively facilitating efficient and productive meetings with cross-functional teams
- Ability to establish trust and foster team alignment without formal authority
- Proficiency in applying critical principles to drive positive program outcomes
- Demonstrated analytical and creative aptitude with tangible application in the workplace
- PMP or formal Project Management training, and an understanding of Agile methodologies
- Advanced degree in a technical discipline (Math, Engineering, Science)
- Experience in the conveyor industry and/or food industry
