Project Manager, New Product Development

Project Manager / Scrum Master to lead global, cross-functional teams to develop and deliver new products for customers worldwide. Create and own project plans and contribute to the product definitions.

Requirements

• 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 new product development and quality documentation processes
• Execute and implement all work aligned with the new product development process
• Educate team on the Agile new product development process
• Deliver projects involving department or cross-functional teams focused on the delivery of a product from concept to launch
• Identify root causes of problems, offer options and solutions to resolve issues
• Handle multiple projects simultaneously
• Work with functional management to staff projects appropriately
• 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
• Maintain a risk register to co-ordinate, record and manage potential issues and follow mitigation plans through to completion
• Lead Agile product development project planning, visual management, marketing and supply chain events
• Report status of project activity to all stakeholders
• Communicate and manage changes in project scope to departmental and cross functional teams
• Be responsible for project metrics for schedule, cost, quality, customer satisfaction
• Interface with Cross-functional teams and with Corporate project office to continuously improve the Agile 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