Project Manager
Job Location: Miami, FL
Role Overview:
The company is seeking a Project Manager to join our Operations team and be responsible for tracking and progressing projects in the pipeline. This individual will maintain a regular cadence of meetings and reviews, implement new processes, and ensure on-time delivery of new products. The Project Manager will provide strategic direction, engineering support, hands-on leadership, and excellence in planning and process. The ideal candidate will have significant project management and product development experience in a rapidly growing CPG business.
Core Responsibilities:
General
- Integrate the cross-functional teams to create a cohesive project schedule and control time, cost, and quality through the product development life cycle
- Track and manage scope creep, assess impact and risks to project delivery
- Work with the project team to define, assess, and mitigate risks that have a significant impact on project cost, schedule, investment, and technology
- Work as a central point of communication ensuring all team members on all projects are kept up to date with current tasks and milestones
- Report weekly on project progress and address risks immediately with the project team to escalate if needed
- Report bi-monthly on project status for executive review
Process Management
- Coordinate and track product and project definition activities related to all cross-functional requirements
- Liaise with the sourcing team, to work with suppliers, to deliver new products on time, on budget, and up to the company quality standards
Drive awareness on design changes and team alignment on tradeoffs made during design for manufacturing
Ensure completion of user, quality, and compliance testing to meet project validation requirements
Technical Leadership
- Participate in technical design reviews by providing project status documentation, controlling scope creep, and ensuring products are designed to the intended specifications
- Review test results summaries and recommend action plans to improve product design or performance
- Translate complex technical concepts in simple, clear language appropriate to the audience to gain cross-functional alignment
- Other projects as assigned
Operations
Qualifications & Skills:
- Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering with 2 years of experience in product development or non-technical degree with 4 years of experience in project management
- Experience in managing new product development of consumer goods through a cross-functional stage-gate process from concept to launch
- Demonstrated in-depth knowledge of pertinent manufacturing processes required for plastics, metals, glass, and fabric materials
- Advanced knowledge of Gantt Charts, Microsoft Project, SharePoint, and similar project management tools
- People-first approach with a proven ability to build enduring professional relationships with employees, partners, vendors, and others, leading to outstanding performance
- Self-starter who can prioritize, organize, and manage multiple projects simultaneously and drive them to completion effectively with great attention to detail and quality
- A creative thinker who can come up with innovative and effective ways to operationally support fast-paced growth
- Demonstrate strong strategic thinking skills, as well as exceptionally strong communication skills
- Commit to continued learning and expanding one’s own professional and technical knowledge
- Have a cost-centered mindset committed to maintaining margins and improving design features while balancing product costs and performance