Essential Responsibilities:

Follow Company's New Product Development Processes

• Lead a global, multi-functional team to deliver new products and offers to market

• Manage to internal Schneider Electric lean new product development and quality documentation processes

• Execute and implement all work aligned with the new product development process

• Educate team on the lean new product development process

Deliver

• Manage projects involving department or cross-functional teams focused on the delivery of a product from concept to launch

• Manage project teams globally dispersed across multiple time zones and continents

• Identify root causes of problems, offer options and solutions to resolve issues

• Handle multiple projects simultaneously (up to three or more in various states of execution)

• Work with functional management to staff projects appropriately

Lead

• Build trust and consensus for effective project collaboration.

• Work Independently with little or no supervision

• Advance corporate competencies and processes through continuous improvement activities

Exercise Project Discipline

• Create and own project plans (schedule, resources) to meet project expectations and to ensure quality, on-time delivery

• Contribute to creating the product definition

• Coordinate all support activities to meet new product contract deliverables

• Analyze, anticipate, quantify, and mitigate risk (technical, schedule, manufacturability, application, etc.)

• Maintain a risk register to co-ordinate, record and manage potential issues and follow mitigation plans through to completion.

• Lead lean product development project planning, visual management, marketing and supply chain events

Report

• Report status of project activity to all stakeholders (e.g., management, support functions, customers, etc.)

• Communicate and manage changes in project scope to departmental and cross functional teams

• Be responsible for project metrics for schedule, cost, quality, customer satisfaction

Improve

• Interface with Cross-functional teams and with Corporate project office to continuously improve the lean new product development processes

• Improve factory and field product quality

• Implement and support organizational, workload, and process changes

• Contribute towards performance reviews in partnership with functional managers

Qualifications

Education

• Technical degree in engineering or computer science, advanced degree preferred

• ACP Agile Certified Practitioner credential preferred

• PMP Project Management Professional credential preferred

Experience

• 5+ years of project management or design experience

• Power electronics background and development experience preferred

• Leadership in managing embedded system design

• Experience in hardware product development and launch to IT, commercial, or industrial markets

• Experience with international cultures

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

• Customer focused with good relationship building and conflict resolution skills.

• Excellent leadership, communications, listening, conflict management and interpersonal skills

• Analytical problem solving, resolution, and closure skills

• Effective time management and organizational skills; ability to manage or be a team player on several projects within a fast-paced work environment.

• Ability to deal with and to support organizational, workload, and process changes

• Resourcefulness in times of project stress

• Highly motivated and an independent leader

• Good written and oral presentation skills and the ability to communicate ideas effectively to senior management.

• Excellent decision-making and ability to thrive in a dynamic environment.

• Project and basic business financial knowledge.

• Experience with computers, Microsoft Office, MS Project, and defect tracking tools.

Physical/Mental Requirements

• Think globally and communicate effectively at all levels.

• Domestic and international travel, periodically up to 25%

Schedule: Full-time
Req: 0094QU