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Viking Range, LLC · 6 hours ago

Project Manager

Greenwood, MS

Full-time

Onsite

Senior Level

5+ years exp

Viking Range, LLC is seeking a Project Manager to lead cross-functional teams through the New Product Development process, ensuring projects meet timeline, budget, and quality targets. The role involves managing project development, stakeholder relations, team leadership, and risk management to drive innovation and deliver market-shaping products.

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Responsibilities

Manage project development from initiation to closure

Maintain a project schedule to identify and define critical milestones and activities necessary to achieve

Ensure alignment of project scope with business objectives and product strategy

Work with project sponsor, stakeholders, and departmental team leaders to complete NPD Tollgate deliverables including business case, commercialization plan, scope, design and technical solutions

Be accountable for project results along with project sponsor

Act as a mediator between stakeholders and team members through diplomacy and negotiation

Clearly communicate expectations to team members and stakeholders and holding members accountable

Lead, coach, mentor, and motivate project team members on a proactive basis

Tactfully navigate the product development team balancing the product requirements of commercialization, marketing, visual brand identity, technical functions and features, quality assurance, safety, service and manufacturability

Resolve any issues and solve problems throughout the project life cycle by managing risks, scope changes, and resourcing needs

Determine if external consultants or contractors will be required to complete project plan. If required, recruit and manage appropriate staffing resources

Interface with vendors and procurement team to eliminate gaps and communicating needs critical to the success of the product

Determine how results will be measured throughout the project and complete a post-project evaluation to determine how well results were achieved

Contribute to the enhancement of tools and best practices of the PMO

Safely crash unsuccessful or re-prioritized projects

Ensure all project documents are safely archived following project completion

Qualification

PMI CertificationProject Management ToolsAnalytical SkillsBusiness AcumenEngineering Change ManagementLeadership SkillsOrganizational AgilityT-shaped SkillsetCommunication SkillsProblem Solving Skills

Required

University degree or college diploma in business or engineering

5+ years work experience in project and/or marketing management

PMI Certification is a major asset

Track record of successful leadership of investment and high stakes capital-intensive efforts demonstrating capabilities of strategic, operational, and technical management skills

Strong analytical skills and proficiency in software tools such as or like: Engineering/PLM: 3DExperience, Smarteam - ENOVIA; Enterprise: Oracle EBS, Infor; Collaboration/Analytical: Excel, PowerPoint, Microsoft Teams; Project Management: Microsoft Project, Smartsheet, Jira, Asana, Etc

Knowledge of Bill of Material, Product Costing, and Engineering Change Management

Excellent communication, leadership, problem solving, and analytical skills

Ability to thrive in a dynamic environment, managing inter-dependency, navigating complexity, balancing multiple concurrent developments, and maintaining order and motivation through informal authority and influential means

Ability to elicit cooperation from senior management, stakeholders, and contributing departments in a matrix organization

Business acumen; specifically in drivers of cost and value creation in product development

Preferred

Preferred industry experience in domestic consumer or commercial appliances

T-shaped skillset; proficient in both depth of project management/development and cross-disciplinary breadth to enhance collaboration, foster innovation, and problem-solving across domains