What are the responsibilities and job description for the Project Manager position at Confidential?
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
Skills & Knowledge:
• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Engineering, or related field; PMP certification preferred
• 5 years of project management experience, ideally in a manufacturing or product development environment
• Strong understanding of Agile, Waterfall, and hybrid project methodologies
• Ability to work with complex cross functional teams
• Excellent communication, leadership, and problem-solving skills
• Ability to resolve conflict and drive accountability through proactive leadership
• Must be proficient in Microsoft Office including Excel and Power Point
• Able to learn to use Smartsheet, the company’s chosen project management software
• The individual must have the ability to adapt and work in an ever-changing environment
• Proficiency in project management tools (e.g., MS Project, Smartsheet, Monday.com)
