Associate Manager, Project Management - Home Fragrance
HybridRacine, Wisconsin, United States
Job Summary
Lead a diverse portfolio of innovation and commercialization projects within SC Johnson's Home Fragrance R&D team, guiding cross-functional teams through the End-to-End product development process from ideation to launch. Align teams around clear goals by defining success criteria, managing timelines and risks, and executing detailed project plans that include milestones, budgets, and resource allocation. Proactively communicate project risks, sponsor updates, and tradeoff discussions to stakeholders while leveraging business acumen to optimize market dynamics and deliver breakthrough products. Operate in a complex, non-structured environment to influence without authority and maintain alignment across multiple organizational levels.
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in technical discipline
- 5+ years of experience in development and commercialization of consumer product
- Master's degree with at least 3+ years relevant work experience
- Qualified candidates must be legally authorized to work in the United States without the need for current or future sponsorship for full-time employment
Desired Qualifications
- 5+ years of technical experience (i.e. Chemist, Engineer, Packaging, etc.) or supply chain experience
- Demonstrated leadership experience in managing projects from end-to-end from ideation through launch, including timeline development, leading risk tradeoff discussions, sponsor updates and escalations
- Experience in new product launches, contract manufacturing, and financial analysis as it relates to supply chain
- Strong understanding and experience in using AI technologies and software for project management tasks including timeline generation, scheduling, risk analysis, sponsor communication and reporting
- Technical breadth and depth in product development and commercialization, global products experience, technology trends, competitive and IP landscape, systems, analytical test methods, and leveraging external technologies
- Strong problem-solving and decision-making abilities
- Self-driven, results-oriented with a clear focus on high quality and timely delivery of objectives
- Natural forward planner who critically assesses own performance and is reliable, tolerant, determined, and empathic communicator
- Excellent communicator with track record of presenting ideas with courage and conviction and ability to present project updates with all levels of management
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