Project Manager overseeing projects from planning to execution at Stefanini. Responsible for coordinating teams and ensuring project compliance with standards in quality, scope, and budget.
About the role
- Senior Project Management Specialist managing R&D projects in nutrition-focused food innovation at Nestlé. Leading project scope, schedule, and cross-functional teams for product development.
Responsibilities
- Lead and manage a wide range of complex research and development projects for Nestlé Nutrition's Global Baby Food Meals & Drinks Category, with a consumer-centric, growth mindset, and passion for innovation.
- Includes the development of new science & technologies, new product launches, development of strategic roadmaps & pipelines, and new concept development.
- Lead projects from the front end of innovation through industrialization and to launch.
- Lead the definition and communication of project scope, objectives, and expectations in collaboration with senior management and stakeholders.
- Navigate and facilitate Front-End innovation activities, distilling complexity and ambiguity and swiftly creating actions to enable decision making.
- Align on the strategy and approach for initiating, planning, executing, monitoring, controlling, and closing the project.
- Identify the project resource requirements and lead project planning.
- Build and manage the end-to-end project schedule, define the critical path, track activities to ensure functional team members are meeting agreed upon deadlines, generate, and communicate status reports, and escalate critical issues.
- Build and maintain project budget.
Requirements
- Proven (at least five years) experience in project management of large-scale cross-functional and multidisciplinary projects with high business impact, preferably in a research / innovation driven environment
- Experience in FMCG industry, in R&D and/or Operations/Manufacturing
- BS in related science fields (e.g., Food science, Material sciences, Agricultural or Environmental sciences, Biology, Biochemistry, Chemistry, Packaging, or related sciences)
- Project Management certification (e.g., PMP, ITIL, COBIT) and/or Nestlé PM dossier is a plus
- Demonstrated Innovation mindset, with Consumer, Customer and Business Opportunity thinking
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills with the ability to lead, energize and steer multifunctional teams and to collaborate effectively with stakeholders.
- Excellent coaching skills
- Demonstrated growth mindset, with agility, courage, curiosity and resilience, adaptability to navigate in uncertain and ambiguous contexts and embracing risk mindset
- Ability to travel 10 - 20%, domestically and internationally.
Benefits
- It is our business imperative to remain a very inclusive workplace.
- We recognize the exceptional engagement and innovation displayed by individuals with disabilities.
Job title
Job type
Experience level
Salary
Not specified
Degree requirement
Tech skills
Location requirements
Change Integration Project Manager overseeing engineering change requests for aerospace programs at GKN Aerospace. Collaborating with global engineering and manufacturing teams to support complex modifications.
Senior IT Project Manager converting IT strategy into reality by executing high - priority, complex projects at Novo Nordisk. Engaging stakeholders and leading project teams to achieve business objectives.
Senior IT Project Manager executing high priority projects aligned with IT strategy at Novo Nordisk. Leading teams and stakeholders to ensure project objectives are met within scope, timeline, and budget.
Senior Project Manager overseeing the planning and coordination of technical engineering for factory projects. Involved with diverse teams and ensuring project compliance, quality, and deliverables in Austria.
Project Manager managing R&D projects at the National Energy Technology Laboratory in Albany, OR. Responsible for developing project plans, monitoring work progress, and ensuring projects are completed on time and under budget.
Project Coordinator supporting planning, execution, and completion of projects at NextEdge. Ensuring communication and coordination within project teams while gaining exposure to project management.
Associate Project Manager overseeing project planning and implementation at RegEd, a leader in RegTech solutions for compliance in financial services.
Project Manager overseeing the Fruit Logistica Buyer Program's development and operations. Focus on innovative concepts and enhancing buyer - exhibitor networking in the fruit trade.
Project Manager/Business Process Analyst leading projects for digital payment solutions. Working in Saarbrücken or Munich with opportunities for home office and flexible hours.