Project Manager- Growth Products

At Greene, Tweed, you'll find the cutting-edge technology, world-class polymer expertise and endless advancement opportunities you'd expect from a multi-national industry leader. You'll find them all in an environment that embraces diversity in people and opinions, moves decision making to the point of impact, and celebrates your success.

If you enjoy continuous learning and are excited about working with and creating technological solutions, explore career opportunities with Greene, Tweed.

Job Summary:

As an innovation leader, Greene Tweed is developing and testing materials and solutions that advance the future of manufacturing and accelerate our customers’ sustainability roadmaps.

As part of the Transformation Management Office, the Project Manager – Growth Products will manage a portfolio of new product development projects at the project level.  He or she will align priorities with the Greene Tweed Business Development team in order to oversee the execution of new products and prototypes from idea to customer adoption. 

Markets of focus include aviation, defense, hydrogen, carbon capture and utilization, semiconductor, space, nuclear, and beyond.

Using best practices in Project Management, Continuous Improvement, and Stage Gate Development, he or she will stand up and lead project teams, lead project initiatives across matrixed support functions, and guide prioritization for greatest future financial impact.

The Project Manager – Growth Products will have a direct impact on the launch of new and differentiated products / technology into the market and to Greene Tweed’s long term growth roadmap.

Job Responsibilities:

• Maintains regular tactical and strategic alignment with commercial and leadership sponsors.
• Manages a portfolio of projects at the project level, with a high degree of ownership on business impact, voice of customer, project schedule, and project budget.  Develops and drives project plans with clearly documented success criteria, utilizing project management best practices to deliver results.
• Demonstrates business acumen and critical thinking via thought partnership on market assumptions, commercia success probability, and long-term financial impact to Greene Tweed.
• Ability to interface with technical and manufacturing resources to drive and prioritize prototyping in support of new business.  Ability to negotiate priorities and timelines across business units.
• Anticipates and identifies potential roadblocks and solicits input in overcoming barriers.  Manages risk; leveraging structured approaches across financial planning, budget and schedule, customer requirements, commercial requirements, IP validation, supply chain requirements, manufacturing and quality capabilities, and resourcing plan.
• Tracks and forecasts progress to plan with a sense of urgency.
• Establishes cross-functional teams as required, ensuring clarity on roles and responsibilities, alignment, and setting the cadence for progress tracking.   Monitors and communicates regularly to team members on completion status of their project deliverables as well as project changes.
• Assesses, monitors and ensures availability of cross-functional resources to follow through on existing projects and initiation of new projects.
• Maintains effective relationships with team members, stakeholders, and customers.  Models trust and respect in all interactions with demonstrated ability to influence at multiple levels of an organization. 
• Ensures deliverables meet customer product specifications or else aligns with stakeholders on whether re-negotiation with customer is viable and consistent with business goals.  Familiarity with stage gate processes and product roadmaps.
• Drives an environment of continuous improvement among project team members; Leverages lean six sigma best practices and draws on the continuous improvement team for high impact support.
• Protects GT IP by executing appropriate agreements with customers, suppliers or partners and maintains an awareness of IP throughout the functional groups.   Ensures non-disclosure agreements are in place as appropriate.

Required Qualifications:

• Education: • B.S or equivalent in Technical, Marketing, or Commercial disciplines;
• Project Management certification preferred;    2+ years of focused project management experience required
• Prior participation in Continuous Improvement projects, and/or prior use Continuous Improvement tools and methodology strongly desired
• Min 7-10 yrs experience preferably in progressively challenging engineering, technology, project management and/or leadership roles

Preferred Qualifications/Skills:

• High integrity and modeling of Greene Tweed Code of Conduct
• Accountability & Drive for Results - Ability to work with minimal supervision; steadfastly pushes self & others for results, bias for action.
• Delegation – Clearly and comfortably delegates both routine and important tasks and decisions; Broadly shares both responsibility and accountability.  Coaches and develops team members to maximize potential for delegation.
• Managerial Courage – Escalates resource capability and motivation gaps;  builds and environment of constructive conflict and psychological safety, capable of participating in performance management.
• Strong Communication & Informing - Determines escalation points and maintains alignment with stakeholders and team members
• Influences and motivates team members towards accomplishment of project goals, deliverables, and timelines
• Excellent planning, decision making, and organizational skills - Can orchestrate multiple activities at once to accomplish a goal
• High level of critical thinking, intellectual curiosity and strategic thinking, in order to drive efforts and prioritization toward maximum future profit potential.

Preferred Minimum Qualifications

• This position may require U.S. Person status as defined by applicable law for authorized access to data controlled under the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) depending on the assigned business unit.  A U.S. Person includes U.S. Citizens, U.S. Nationals, lawful permanent residents, and workers granted refugee or asylum status in the United States.  

Note:  This Job Description in no way states or implies that these are the only duties to be performed by the employee occupying this position.  Employees will be required to follow any other job-related instructions and to perform any other job-related duties requested by the Supervisor.  All requirements are subject to change and updates.

We also provide eligible employees with a competitive benefits package that includes health insurance, flexible spending accounts, health savings account, 401k savings plan, life and disability insurance, tuition assistance and more, to meet the diverse needs of all employees and their family members.

Equal Opportunity Employer:

Greene, Tweed is an Equal Opportunity Employer.  Employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, physical or mental disability, veteran status, or any other federally protected class.

Drug Free Workplace:

Greene, Tweed is a Drug Free Workplace.  Employment is contingent upon successful completion of a pre-employment drug screening and background investigation subject to federal, state, and local laws.

NOTE: Greene, Tweed is not seeking assistance or accepting unsolicited resumes from search firms for employment opportunities, unless they have a written agreement for the position they are contacting us about. Regardless of past practice, all resumes submitted by search firms to any employee at GT without a valid written search agreement in place for that position will be deemed the sole property of Greene, Tweed, and no fee will be paid in the event the candidate is hired by Greene, Tweed as a result of the referral or through other means.