Project Manager, R&D New Product Development

Basic Scope/Purpose:

The project manager will lead the planning, executing, monitoring, controlling, and closing of projects. They are responsible for successful execution of projects managed (within scope, budget and timeline) as well as establishing standards and best practices for effective Project Management. You will identify and tackle intrinsically hard problems (e.g. ambiguous, with little to no existing structure, have significant business risk and/or potential for significant impact), and resolve issues by utilizing strong influencing skills. Collaboration with key stakeholders is critical to ensure project outcomes meet or exceed expectations. You must be comfortable working in a fast paced, ever changing environment and effectively build change management strategies into the programs you support.

Principal Accountabilities:

• Work cross-functionally and across geographies with stakeholders at all levels to support large-scale programs and initiatives.
• Have a rigorous approach to problem solving and analytics, as well as produce, interpret, and draw conclusions from data.
• Providing support and facilitation for end-to-end product introduction process by serving as point of integration to coordinate communications, manage workflow between teams and provide consistent reporting.
• Establishing and supporting a consistent methodology for resource management across key initiatives impacting the business.
• Driving best practice standardization and adoption for project management across the portfolio.
•  Manage a portfolio of key workstreams related to commercial and operational strategies. This involves oversight of geographically dispersed cross-functional project teams. The Project Manager will guide project teams through charter and schedule development, creation of project KPIs, and establishment of effective communication tools.
• Engaging in all aspects of project management, including project planning, leadership and management of internal and external resources, management of project execution, risk management, prioritization, schedule and cost control, communication, issue resolution, and contingency planning.
• Serving as a point of escalation for team member’s issues requiring a higher degree of expertise or discretion to resolve and ensure timely resolution of issues by focusing on root cause analysis and implementing corrective action plans.
• Managing active projects with an entrepreneurial spirit. Take initiative to escalate issues to the Divisional Steering Group (DSG), plan and propose mitigation plans as appropriate to prevent schedule slip and/or scope creep. 
• Always maintain and Promote Fenner Precision Polymers Values and Behaviors.

Education and/or Relative Experience: 

• Bachelor’s degree from four-year college or university or equivalent experience in a business or technical field.
• Minimum of 3-5 years practical project management experience.
• Mechanical Engineering, R&D, new product development, product design experience.

Certificates, Licenses, Registrations

• PMP Certification preferred
• Six Sigma Certification preferred