Xylem (XYL) is a leading global water technology company committed to developing innovative technology solutions to the world’s water challenges. The Company’s products and services move, treat, analyze, monitor and return water to the environment in public utility, industrial, residential and commercial building services settings. Xylem also provides a leading portfolio of smart metering, network technologies and advanced infrastructure analytics solutions for water, electric and gas utilities. The Company’s more than 16,500 employees bring broad applications expertise with a strong focus on identifying comprehensive, sustainable solutions. Headquartered in Rye Brook, New York with 2017 revenue of $4.7 billion, Xylem does business in more than 150 countries through a number of market-leading product brands.

The name Xylem is derived from classical Greek and is the tissue that transports water in plants, highlighting the engineering efficiency of our water-centric business by linking it with the best water transportation of all – that which occurs in nature. For more information, please visit us at www.xylem.com.

The Role: The Project Manager is responsible for managing the execution phase of the category strategy which involves a transition from an incumbent supplier to an alternate supplier, launch of a new part design, or an evaluation of an alternate part design from an incumbent supplier

Essential Duties/Principal Responsibilities:

• The Morton Grove Project Manager is responsible to manage procurement savings project execution to ensure realization of the savings project plan
• The most important function of the job is to oversee and ensure parts are properly qualified from alternate sources, or part changes are properly implemented with current suppliers, per an agreed to project plan.

Additional Responsibilities:

• Responsible for ownership and managing the execution of projects, ensuring quality and on time delivery performance to meet the project schedule. Working with the Category Manager, site teams, sourcing engineer/ sqe's, engineering, and sde's in country regions, work to a schedule that is agreed upon by stakeholders along with the methodology to be used for delivering project goals, reporting progress, and proper escalation action and communication to management.
• Proficient in Microsoft Office Project, Excel and other project management programs. Will possess outstanding organizational and leadership skills; coupled with the ability to see the big picture as well as the details. Must be strong at holding team members accountable for actions and tasks and work with them to understand root causes for delays or issues.
• Drive cross functional project teams as well as supplier actions to ensure that project is tracking to expectations; create a detailed plan which identifies the activities and owners needed to successfully complete the project.
• Monitor project deliverables constantly and effectively communicate with stakeholders (Engineering, QA, Marketing, Purchasing, GM, XGP team) to ensure all departments are aligned and agree to project deliverables. Ability to identify and mitigate risks / barriers; apply critical thinking to overcome obstacles and utilize escalation process if necessary to keep project on track.
• Act as point of contact between Xylem suppliers and sites, other XGP regional organizations; assuring complete understanding of project timelines and drive commitments from both entities.
• Submit progress reports to stakeholders and senior leaders. Facilitate regular progress meetings with supplier and site; publish action log with owners and due dates to keep project on track. Accountable for project on time tracking from suppliers and sites and passionate about working with team members to stay on schedule, root cause and countermeasure obstacles for on time execution, including management elevation triggers when necessary cooperatively with action owners.      
• Facilitate meeting with stakeholders to conduct a technical review to fully understand the site needs for the product. This review includes but is not limited to assuring outsource ready drawings, critical to function and critical to quality features clearly identified, inspection requirements, any subsequent testing or agency certification requirements. Include sourcing engineers/sqe's on the review sessions and inputs.                      
• Identify site data needs and timeline of submittals from suppliers; i.e. control plans, inspection plans, inspection reports, material test reports.       
• Plan trips to suppliers with sourcing engineers and LCR SDE's and other managers to ensure project kick off, monitoring, high level overviews, countermeasures are in place to ensure teams are tracking to original plans that the project manager develops at project kick off with the site and suppliers.

   

Key Relationships:

• Materials or Products:   Coordinates purchase orders for items of a more complex,technical nature and makes supply commitments binding Morton Grove to outside suppliers both legally and financially

• Employee Relations: Must have ability to handle people by knowing what     approach to use with whom and when. Expected to maintain his/her position in relationship to others with diplomatic, yet firm conviction

  • Money:   Coordinates purchase orders up to amount of approved purchase requisition limits. Associated responsibility for purchases in excess of $100K. Substantial financial loss could occur as a result of error.

• Business Contacts : Continuous internal and external contacts at all levels of management, especially manufacturing, marketing and engineering groups. Must display tactful aggressiveness with ability to communicate purchase requirements clearly and concisely.

Qualifications: Education, Experience, Skills, Abilities, License/Certification:

Required Qualifications:

Minimal education & experience, essential skills & abilities and required license/certification to perform this job.

• Equivalent Education Level Required: BS or BA degree in Business or Supply Chain with desired certifications (MPM, C.P.M., CPIM)
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• Experience Required: Minimum of two year to five years of successful project management and/or progressive purchasing and supervisory experience plus equivalent experience. .
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• Knowledge Required: Project Management & In-depth knowledge of Procurement and Materials             Management concepts along with excellent negotiation, communication, and systems skills. Demonstrated knowledge of project management techniques and tools; direct work experience in project management capacity.

 Preferred Qualifications:

Additional preferences for a specific position.

• Good facilitation and analytical skills; excellent interpersonal skills, team building and conflict resolution experience
• Proficient in project management software and Microsoft Office products

 

Additional Information:

Physical Demands

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

•  The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions

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