Project Manager

Job Title : Project Manager

Hybrid Role

Location : New Brunswick, Summit, or Devens

Work Schedule : Monday Friday, Business hours

Purpose and Scope of the Position :

Reporting to the Director of Product Development Operations, this individual will be responsible for the planning and execution of a broad range of project management activities to support Product Development organization.

Accountabilities include ensuring governance, initiatives, activities, and processes drive toward the accomplishment of the Product Development strategic plan in support of the enterprise goals and objectives.

Required Competencies : Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities :

Demonstrated ability to build relationships, connectivity, influence, negotiate, and drive organizational

engagement across sites and with the enterprise

• Strong learning agility (to be quickly trained in the change@Client methodology, process, & tools)
• Strong written & verbal communication skills, including ability to make the complex more easily understood

through written narrative & clear presentations

Strong problem solver & facilitator especially in ambiguous situations, including ability to ask open ended

questions that encourage discussion

• Prior experience leading or supporting organizational change is desired but not required
• Intermediate level experience using MS Tools, SharePoint, SAP, Smart Sheets

Duties and Responsibilities :

Serve as project manager and / or participate, as needed, in any initiatives that are identified in PD / PDO annual

objectives and / or strategic initiatives

Support of tracking milestones, metrics, and KPIs across a portfolio of projects impacting global Product

Development

• Applies digital and analytical tools to streamline and improve reporting of project status and progress
• Tracks resource (people and dollars) demand and supply across the project portfolio. Identifies and seeks to

resolve conflicts, bottlenecks, and budgetary risks

Accountable for facilitating regular project reviews and prioritization exercises to ensure the portfolio is fresh

and focused on the most important deliverables

Provide departmental business operations support (track objectives, facilitate staff meetings, create / maintain

SharePoint sites amongst other activities)

Use a structured change management methodology (e.g. process & tools) to guide project-level change

management activities, in collaboration with project leads :

• Conduct diagnostic to characterize the types of change anticipated by the project
• Facilitate working sessions with project lead / team to identify specific impacts to each stakeholder group
• Develop detailed list of interventions & action items to address the identified impacts
• Own communications-related action items in change plan, including writing short articles about the impact of the

project to be featured in internal newsletters

• Provide PM support to ensure execution of the change plan in a timely manner
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