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Fortune Brands Innovations · 4 days ago

Director, Project Management - Global Product Development

Deerfield, IL

Full-time

Onsite

Director/Executive

$140K/yr - $220K/yr

10+ years exp

Fortune Brands Innovations, Inc. is an industry-leading home, security and digital products company. The Director of Project Management will lead program and project management for Global Product Development, ensuring alignment with business strategies and execution of product strategies to achieve growth objectives.

Consumer GoodsSecurity

Responsibilities

Serve as a key member of FBIN’s Portfolio Management team to ensure that the portfolio aligns with the business strategies, provides the right balance between Growth & Value while optimizing efficiency in resource and dollar investments

Partner with the Market SBUs, Innovation and Operations team to supply project timing, resource, and budget inputs to Growth & Improve product plans, drive global project specifications and execution of projects for Growth & Value

Serve as a key member of FBIN’s leadership team to improve consistency of global execution, increase resource flexibility, improve development velocity, drive efficiencies and maximize value creation

Lead program and project management for GPG, establishing the Project Management Center of Excellence across GPG

Partner with GPG leadership to lead the development and management of project plans that execute the product strategies to achieve Growth and OI objectives and align with FBIN’s overall strategic portfolio requirements

Partner with Operations internal and external suppliers to ensure the most efficient and effective project management capabilities are in place to align strategic decision-making, stage gate reviews, design reviews and risk mitigation, in order to successfully execute product strategies

Accountable for directing a portfolio of complex and wide-ranging product development projects involving multiple internal and external stakeholders and enterprise leaders

Lead multiple cross-channel, project management teams in validation of financial forecasts, reconciliation of resources and management of project expenditures. Establish and manage global project budgets

Represent the project management function managing all technical product development activity in various project governance and inter-department forums including GPG executive team and potentially Fortune Brand Home and Security (FBHS) updates

Responsible for attracting, developing and maintaining the technical project management talent to successfully execute the product development strategies

Responsible for leading major change management initiatives

Collaborate with Marketing, Innovation and Insights to understand and drive the Consumer Experience into FBIN product

Understand consumer’s needs/wants/desires; apply these insights into impactful product attributes and features

Qualification

Product DevelopmentProject ManagementCross-functional LeadershipAgile MethodologiesRisk MitigationBusiness AcumenVerbal CommunicationWritten Communication

Required

Bachelor's degree in engineering is preferred; MBA is preferred

Minimum of 10 years of experience in progressively responsible positions involving complex program and project management in an engineering/technical product development environment is required

Minimum of 8 years of experience in successfully leading multiple cross-functional and global teams

Broad and working knowledge of project management techniques and best practices including but not limited to agile, work breakdown structure, critical path management, risk mitigation

In-depth knowledge of product development and design processes is required

Must be team oriented with excellent verbal and written skills

A proven leader with well-developed business acumen