Project Manager leading consulting projects for Huron’s global clients on finance transformation and ERP implementations. Ensuring projects meet client expectations on time, budget, and quality standards.
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.
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