|APC| Agile Project Manager – New Product Development

-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.
-Motivate and direct staff to execute project plans and follow Schneider Electric design process.
-Initiate all project, design, cost, DFA/DFM, safety, and other reviews to ensure schedule, cost, and quality goals are met.
-Coordinate on-time development, manufacture, and delivery of quality products to market.

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