What are the responsibilities and job description for the Project Manager - NPD position at FPC of Savannah?
Great opportunity for a Project Manager to work for an American manufacturing leader located in Greenwood, MS.
Our client is a premium product manufacturer looking for a Project Manager to lead cross-functional teams through the New Product Development (NPD) process—from concept to market launch—ensuring projects meet timeline, budget, and quality targets
Responsibilities
Planning and Execution
- Manage project development from initiation to closure.
- Maintain a project schedule to identify and define critical milestones and activities necessary to achieve.
- Ensure alignment of project scope with business objectives and product strategy.
- Work with project sponsor, stakeholders, and departmental team leaders to complete NPD Tollgate deliverables including business case, commercialization plan, scope, design and technical solutions.
Team Leadership
- Clearly communicate expectations to team members and stakeholders and holding members accountable.
- Lead, coach, mentor, and motivate project team members on a proactive basis.
- Tactfully navigate the product development team balancing the product requirements of commercialization, marketing, visual brand identity, technical functions and features, quality assurance, safety, service and manufacturability.
Risk and Issue Management
- Resolve any issues and solve problems throughout the project life cycle by managing risks, scope changes, and resourcing needs.
- Determine if external consultants or contractors will be required to complete project plan. If required, recruit and manage appropriate staffing resources.
- Interface with vendors and procurement team to eliminate gaps and communicating needs critical to the success of the product.
Post-Project Activities and Continuous Improvement
- Determine how results will be measured throughout the project and complete a post-project evaluation to determine how well results were achieved.
- Contribute to the enhancement of tools and best practices of the PMO.
- Safely crash unsuccessful or re-prioritized projects.
- Ensure all project documents are safely archived following project completion.
Qualifications
- 3 years of related Project Management Experience.
- Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Business, or relevant field
- Strong analytical skills and proficiency in software tools such as or like: Engineering/PLM: 3DExperience, Smarteam - ENOVIA; Enterprise: Oracle EBS, Infor; Collaboration/Analytical: Excel, PowerPoint, Microsoft Teams; Project Management: Microsoft Project, Smartsheet, Jira, Asana, Etc.
- Knowledge of Bill of Material, Product Costing, and Engineering Change Management.
- US Citizen or Green Card Holder