Project Manager - Global

Job Title: Project Manager - Global
Location: Devens, MA, USA
Location Type: On-Site
Website: https://www.wmfts.com/en/
Group: https://www.spiraxgroup.com/

When you join Watson-Marlow Fluid Technology Solutions, a part of the Spirax Group, you will be integrated into a cooperative and encouraging team, participate in challenging yet critical work, and experience ongoing growth opportunities to help you achieve your full potential. Visit our website to learn more.

This role will focus on:

The Global Project Manager is accountable for leading and coordinating multiple large-scale initiatives across the Global Supply organization. This role involves end-to-end management of project resources, timelines, budgets, and deliverables, ensuring adherence to defined milestones and strategic objectives. The Project Manager is responsible for identifying, tracking, and mitigating risks, managing project issues, and overseeing change requests to ensure successful, on-time, and within-budget project delivery.

Operating with the authority to manage projects on a day-to-day basis, the Project Manager ensures that all required deliverables meet the agreed standards of quality, are delivered within the specified constraints, and align with the expected business outcomes. The role also plays a key part in driving process improvement initiatives, fostering the global exchange of best practices to enhance project performance and operational efficiency.

This role requires close collaboration with Sales teams and alignment across multiple business units within WMFTS, to ensure initiatives are strategically integrated across commercial and operational functions. Regular updates and progress reports are provided to senior leadership, offering clear visibility into project status, risks, and strategic alignment across the global organization.

Key Accountabilities include:

Global Project Leadership

• Lead a portfolio of complex, large-scale initiatives across multiple departments and global business units within the WMFTS.
• Provide full lifecycle project leadership, from initiation through planning, execution, deployment, and closure.
• Ensure alignment of programs and projects to strategic business objectives, including global operational and commercial priorities.
• Build and motivate cross-functional, cross-regional project teams; provide on-site leadership when necessary.
• Manage interdependencies between technology, operations, and business functions to ensure seamless execution.
• Define and manage project scope, timelines, budgets, deliverables, risks, and change controls.
• Oversee vendor engagement, stakeholder communication, and reporting to executive audiences.

Governance, Communication & Reporting

• Deliver executive-level communications, status updates, and strategic insights across all levels of the business.
• Develop and deliver project reports, presentations, proposals, and performance analyses to sponsors and stakeholders.
• Create and maintain detailed project plans, documentation, and success criteria to track delivery and value realization.
• Monitor and control outcomes to resolve issues, mitigate risks, and manage critical path activities.

Organizational Development & Best Practices

• Establish and mature project management capabilities across the organization, including practices, templates, tools, and governance structures.
• Support ongoing process improvement initiatives and participate in internal quality issue resolution.
• Stay current on emerging project management methodologies, technologies, and industry best practices.

Skills/Experience

• Minimum HNC in Engineering or a related technical discipline.
• A Project Management Certification is preferred but not required.
• Experience of working in a similar role within a manufacturing environment
• Experience of managing Engineering Projects within manufacturing
• 5+ years of hands-on project management experience, including planning, tracking, and delivering projects within time, scope, and budget constraints.
• 5+ years of experience working with cross-functional business stakeholders, preferably within manufacturing, engine