Senior Project Manager FEI
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Job Summary
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Senior Project Manager FEIJob Description
Key Responsibilities
- Lead end-to-end management of breakthrough innovation initiatives from ideation through prototyping validation and handover to product teams or commercialization.
- Drive project planning resource allocation risk management and delivery against milestones while maintaining flexibility for iterative discovery.
- Facilitate collaboration with cross-functional teams including scientists engineers designers researchers commercial stakeholders etc.
- Champion consumer-centricity: ensure projects are grounded in user insights and deliver meaningful consumer value.
- Translate complex technical concepts into clear business-focused communications for global commercial stakeholders.
- Build and maintain alignment across diverse stakeholders (product marketing sales supply chain legal) resolving conflicts and prioritizing effectively.
- Operate pragmatically and objectively :assess situations weigh options and choose the most efficient path forward.
- Foster a culture of experimentation: design experiments learn quickly from failures and iterate to improve outcomes.
- Maintain resilience and perseverance through project setbacks; manage uncertainty and sustain team motivation.
- Track and report project status key metrics and learnings to leadership and stakeholders.
Qualifications
- Bachelors degree in Engineering Business or related field; advanced degree (MBA MSc) preferred.
- 5 years of project/program management experience in innovation R&D product development or related areas; experience in breakthrough or early-stage innovation is highly desirable.
- Proven ability to lead technically complex projects involving creative and expert engineering teams.
- Strong consumer-centric mindset with experience applying user insights to product/feature definition.
- Experience managing global commercially-focused stakeholders and communicating technical concepts to business audiences.
- Strong organizational prioritization and decision-making skills; pragmatic and outcome-oriented.
- Demonstrated resilience and ability to learn from failure; comfortable with ambiguity and iterative processes.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English; additional languages a plus.
- Certifications such as PMP Agile (CSM PSM) or equivalent are an advantage.
Competencies & Behaviors
- Leadership: influence without authority inspire teams and drive cross-functional alignment.
- Communication: translate complex technical detail into clear business messages.
- Strategic Thinking: balance long-term vision with short-term execution needs.
- Collaboration & Empathy: work effectively with creative engineers and commercial partners.
- Problem Solving: make data-informed decisions and apply pragmatic trade-offs.
- Resilience & Grit: persist through setbacks and extract learnings from failures. Cultural Awareness: experience working in global matrixed organizations.
4. Success Metrics
Timely delivery of innovation milestones (prototypes validations handovers). Quality and impact of user-validated innovations (consumer feedback engagement metrics). Stakeholder satisfaction and alignment scores. Number and learnings from experiments (validated hypotheses pivot/kill decisions). Successful transition of validated innovations to commercialization teams.
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Required Experience:
Senior IC
Key Skills
- Business Development
- Project Management Methodology
- Project / Program Management
- PMBOK
- Waterfall
- Wastewater
- Construction Management
- Project Management
- Project Management Software
- Microsoft Project
- Budgeting
- Contracts
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