Project Manager

Job Location: Miami, FL

Role Overview:

The company is seeking a Project Manager to join our Operations team and be responsible for tracking and progressing projects in the pipeline. This individual will maintain a regular cadence of meetings and reviews, implement new processes, and ensure on-time delivery of new products. The Project Manager will provide strategic direction, engineering support, hands-on leadership, and excellence in planning and process. The ideal candidate will have significant project management and product development experience in a rapidly growing CPG business.

Core Responsibilities:

General

• Integrate the cross-functional teams to create a cohesive project schedule and control time, cost, and quality through the product development life cycle
• Track and manage scope creep, assess impact and risks to project delivery
• Work with the project team to define, assess, and mitigate risks that have a significant impact on project cost, schedule, investment, and technology
• Work as a central point of communication ensuring all team members on all projects are kept up to date with current tasks and milestones
• Report weekly on project progress and address risks immediately with the project team to escalate if needed
• Report bi-monthly on project status for executive review

Process Management

• Coordinate and track product and project definition activities related to all cross-functional requirements
• Liaise with the sourcing team, to work with suppliers, to deliver new products on time, on budget, and up to the company quality standards

• Drive awareness on design changes and team alignment on tradeoffs made during design for manufacturing 

• Ensure completion of user, quality, and compliance testing to meet project validation requirements

Technical Leadership

• Participate in technical design reviews by providing project status documentation, controlling scope creep, and ensuring products are designed to the intended specifications

• Review test results summaries and recommend action plans to improve product design or performance
• Translate complex technical concepts in simple, clear language appropriate to the audience to gain cross-functional alignment

• Other projects as assigned

Operations

• Work closely with sales and sales planning to gather product quantity volumes
• Work with vendors and suppliers to gather minimum order quantities and lead times
• Ensure all purchase orders throughout a project lifespan
• Work closely with supply chain and logistics to ensure deliveries and shipments are on time deliveries and shipments are on time

• Other projects as assigned

Qualifications & Skills:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering with 2 years of experience in product development or non-technical degree with 4 years of experience in project management
• Experience in managing new product development of consumer goods through a cross-functional stage-gate process from concept to launch
• Demonstrated in-depth knowledge of pertinent manufacturing processes required for plastics, metals, glass, and fabric materials
• Advanced knowledge of Gantt Charts, Microsoft Project, SharePoint, and similar project management tools
• People-first approach with a proven ability to build enduring professional relationships with employees, partners, vendors, and others, leading to outstanding performance
• Self-starter who can prioritize, organize, and manage multiple projects simultaneously and drive them to completion effectively with great attention to detail and quality
• A creative thinker who can come up with innovative and effective ways to operationally support fast-paced growth
• Demonstrate strong strategic thinking skills, as well as exceptionally strong communication skills
• Commit to continued learning and expanding one’s own professional and technical knowledge
• Have a cost-centered mindset committed to maintaining margins and improving design features while balancing product costs and performance