Project Manager - New Product Development

The Integrated Performance Solutions segment for the Consumer Products Division focuses on the sealing and dispensing needs of various sectors, including household, personal care, and beauty products. The Project Manager is responsible for using project management, stage gate, and Six Sigma methodologies to lead cross-functional activities (i.e. from inception, through planning, design, prototyping, and commercial launch) for new product development projects for a specific IPS platform (extruded plastics, sealant films, or rubber/elastomers)

Job Duties And Responsibilities

• Cross-functional project manager across a single IPS global product platform
• Lead a portfolio of complex NPD projects simultaneously
• Projects are global and can involve multiple locations, processes, technologies and expertise
• Coordinates the administrative NPD activities necessary to drive projects from idea generation to successful commercialization, in collaboration with R&D, Marketing, Sales, Manufacturing, and other functions; also customers and suppliers
• Define project KPI’s, upfront project scoping, resource needs, and success criteria
• Define resources (i.e. people, skillset, investment (CAPEX)) to ensure project launch, ramp up and full production.
• Sets and manages customer expectations (specs, timeline, ...)
• Drives timeline management (i.e. defining critical/parallel path, contingency plans, risk mitigation)
• Project documentation should be harmonized and follow TekniPlex's guidelines/ procedures (i.e. (i.e. project charters, stage gate milestones, stakeholder updates)
• Ensure stakeholder management, alignment, and communications: internal & external
• Provides customer technical updates as needed
• Leads/participates in internal-external ideation sessions and product roadmaps activities
• Lead/participates in stage gate NPD meetings and ad-hoc project meetings
• Drives project management discipline and culture: “Deliver on time, within budget, customer satisfied.”
• Practices Six Sigma Guiding Principles: Defining, Measuring, Analyzing, Improving, Controlling (DMAIC)
  
  

KPIs/METRICS

• Deliver on key project milestones (concept, design, prototype, scale, commercialization)
• Successful new product commercialization (on-time/budget/cost)
• Ideation generation
  
  

Qualifications

• Bachelors in a material science-related field preferred.
• Minimum of 5 years of materials industry experience in applied R&D, spefically extruded plastics, sealant films, or rubber/elastomers.
• Experience and training in Project Management, Stage Gate, Six Sigma, Design of Experiments
• Experience leading multiple, complex projects from ideation to commercialization
• Experience building a culture of innovation and collaboration within customers and internal teams
• Experience in high-volume manufacturing environment
• High sense of urgency
• Business manager mindset
• Organizational-savvy and be comfortable with navigating organizations at all levels.
• Well-organized and self-directed and have a strong process and project orientation.
• Strong oral and written communication skills.
• Proficiency in the English language strong preferred.
• Ability to travel (~25%).
  
  

WORKING CONDITIONS

The nature of this role may require work hour flexibility including working outside the regular workday hours and weekends. Regular day and overnight travel by car and/or air may be required. Typically works in an office with adequate lighting and ventilation and a normal range of temperature and noise level.

Physical Requirements

The essential duties, physical demands and work environment characteristics described are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. If possible, reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions where it may not cause undue hardship or safety risks to the company and / or the employee.