Marketing Project Manager

The project manager is a critical resource for effective product development in the Sherwin Williams Packaging environment. The project manager integrates, coordinates, guides, and manages project deliverables and resources in order to achieve the highest results in cost, schedule and quality performance for the portfolio of projects under his/her auspices.

 

To achieve consistent project management success, the project manager must demonstrate proficiency in a diverse mix of skill-sets and competencies in the following areas:

•    Project Management Best Practices
•    Team Leadership
•    Results Orientation and Accountability
•    Global Business Knowledge and Customer Focus
•    Influencing, Negotiating, and Relationship Management
•    Communication Management and Consensus Building
•    Critical Thinking
 

Initiation 

• Collaborate with the market managers, business directors and segment marketing team (project stakeholders) to develop a sound project charter and a comprehensive understanding of business requirements and expectations.
• Integrate other functional contributors in order to develop a sound conceptual understanding of the project’s life cycle requirements (product development through and including commercial development).
• Assist project stakeholders with conceptual cost, schedule and resource estimating – budgeting.

 

Planning 

• Develop the project’s infrastructure for future project phases.
• Identify, task and manage the planning/scope development deliverables of the required functional contributors.
• Integrate the functional deliverables to develop a sound preliminary scope statement and project baselines.
• Identify, communicate, and develop mitigation-contingency strategies for risks that may be a detriment to the project’s objectives.
• Refine planning deliverables to a “definitive state” prior to moving the project to its execution phase.
• Develop the project management plan and its constituent elements utilizing the appropriate project and organizational resources in order to guide the project’s execution-monitoring/control and closing phases.

 

Execution – monitoring/control

• Implement project monitoring and control strategies in order to track deliverable performance against the proposed baseline (cost, schedule, quality, and scope)
• Manage project resources to their respective deliverables development schedules and assist in recovery planning where required. Facilitates project performance tracking meetings to ensure baseline conformance.
• Report on the project’s progress using methods and technologies described within the Project Management Plan and in a manner that promotes cohesiveness, transparency, and timely-effective decision making.
• Effectively monitor and manage project risk by implementing sound mitigation and contingency plans (planning phase) where required.
• Implements integrated change management practices in order to control “scope creep” and deviation from the project’s chartered objectives.
• Ensure projects are executed according to the Packaging Stage-Gate Program, including completion of all required deliverables and preparation of timely gate reviews.

 

Closing

• Develop and implements transition plans for the project’s product(s) into commercial development and maintenance of business processes.
• Ensure that all deliverables have been completed or have been considered for different disposition.
• Coordinate all resource transitions with the respective functional managers.
• Conduct all required project audit and lessons learned sessions. Ensures that project lessons learned are published and where critical; are properly addressed for process improvement initiatives.
• Ensure proper archiving of all project documentation.

• 5 years experience in project management, product development, operations, or marketing within the paint and coatings industry 
• Packaging coatings experience,
• Fluent in English, ideally French,

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