Senior Business Project Manager

CooperVision, a division of CooperCompanies (NASDAQ:COO), is one of the world’s leading manufacturers of soft contact lenses. The Company produces a full array of daily disposable, two-week and monthly contact lenses, all featuring advanced materials and optics. CooperVision has a strong heritage of solving the toughest vision challenges such as astigmatism, presbyopia and childhood myopia; and offers the most complete collection of spherical, toric and multifocal products available. Through a combination of innovative products and focused practitioner support, the company brings a refreshing perspective to the marketplace, creating real advantages for customers and wearers. For more information, visit www.coopervision.com.

 

Job Summary:

The Americas Commercial Project Manager will report to the Manager, Americas Commercial Project Manager as a strategic and critical leader who will lead transformation initiatives for the Commercial Operations organization. The position will support the transformation and growth of the Americas region by managing key regional business initiatives, including Salesforce Effectiveness and Unified Commerce Program.

 

The project manager is responsible for the management and delivery of assigned commercial projects, and tracking key project attributes including resource management, timeline, and task and priority management. The Project Manager is responsible for the overall direction, coordination, implementation, execution, control, and completion of assigned projects ensuring consistency with company strategy, commitments, and goals.

 

• Delivers assigned projects within an agreed schedule
• Work with project stakeholders to assist in the definition of project scope, objectives, and success criteria
• Ensures effective delivery of the project roadmap, managing change effectively, understanding the value of the initiative and ensuring the appropriate level of transparency via KPI reporting and other communications
• Develop project tasks and resource requirements to deliver per identified project scope
• Manage changes to the project scope and project schedule; Report and escalate to management as needed
• Develops status reporting on projects and monitors metrics on risk, issues, quality, resources, and timelines 
• Monitors and reviews progress against plan to effectively manage changes and ensure that delivery objectives are met
• Coordinates internal resources across internal teams to ensure task completion per the project plan
• Achieves improved operational excellence in delivery and increased early warning of issues and challenges, to allow enough time to solve or mitigate
• Ensures the project team is using the correct documents and following standard project management practices
• Coaches, develops, motivates, and manages project team to ensure optimal performance is achieved

Attends appropriate team meetings to report on projects

 

Travel Requirements: 

• Travel as necessary to support regional and global projects and initiatives (10-20%)

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• Strong oral and written communication skills in English, including presentation skills 
• Capability to move quickly between strategic and tactical
• Must understand change management and adoption techniques
• Strong skills in budget development and management, with demonstrated ability to bring multiple projects in on time and on budget 
• Intermediate skills in Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and MS Project.
• Able to confidently calculate an acceptable amount of risk, as well as assess and manage issues (and opportunities) to projects to achieve the best possible outcome
• Maintain knowledge of project requirements and dependencies and ability to document these
• Ability to balance and prioritize multiple conflicting requirements 
• Communicate effectively and efficiently across all levels of the organization
• Highly organized with strong attention to detail

Work Environment:

• Hybrid office environment/setting. 
• Sedentary to light physical effort necessary to perform the job

Experience:

• 5+ years’ experience in managing multiple commercial projects
• Experience managing change during system i