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Saint Gobain Performance Plastics Project Manager - Medical, Manufacturing, Life Sciences - Remote, USA in Solon, Ohio
Why do we need you ? sIf you want to discover your greatest potential, Saint-Gobain provides one-of-a-kind opportunities for innovative problem solvers. We're one of only two companies in the world that is consistently recognized as both a top Global Employer and a Top 100 Global Innovator, but Saint-Gobain's remarkable story and culture of innovation begins with a team of nearly 200,000 creative, diverse and passionate team members collaborating across the globe. We are committed to our mission to improve lives because, every day, we witness the enormous impact of our efforts on the world around us. The Project Manager will lead business-wide strategic projects enabling the global growth of Saint-Gobain Life Sciences' Medical, Electronic Components & Catheter businesses while supporting capacity expansions, technical transfers, industrialization and commercial process optimization. Will also support new business projects from commercialization to industrialization. The Project Manager maintains a culture of accountability achieving worldwide excellence in the delivery of products/technology/services in support of existing and / or new business projects. Works across departments and functions to ensure flow of communication and transparency of information. Drives and innovates continuous improvements to the system, partnering with Business Development, Customer Success, Marketing, Supply Chain, QA, RA, Purchasing, IT, Operations and Site Leadership Teams to ensure all facets of Commercial and Operations are considered throughout the project life cycle. In a highly agile and empowered environment, will manage key projects while also ensuring the success of other projects across the organization, mentoring and coaching site level Project Leads. Key Accountabilities: Provides project direction, metric definition, and performance management. This role provides a single point of accountability for all aspects of assigned projects and the project management system used in the MEC Business Units. Train others in best practice project management. Support, guide and coach other project managers to be successful in leading their assigned projects. Proactively lead & organize pre-project phases to define the case for project justification/support. Leverage global project management standards & expertise for the Business Units, with alignment with departmental standards for Engineering, R&D, etc. Seek, adjust and integrate modern Project Management approaches like scrum or other agile approaches, methods and principles to support our project management needs in the fast changing VUCA (Volatility, Uncertainty, Complexity and Ambiguity) environment. Also, utilize the available Saint-Gobain internal available PM systems e.g. EEM (Early Equipment Management). Is this job for you ? Education: Bachelor's Degree - within Engineering, Business, Organizational Development, Project Management or related field of study; Required. Master's Degree - Degree in Industrial or Process Engineering (Mechanical, building construction & execution, or similar field and / or Complex Project Management, or Organizational Development & change management; Preferred. Certificate of Completion within Project Management, Required. Certificate of Completion in Change management, Project Team Building or Leadership Training; Required. Experience: 7+ years of Project Management experience, using standard project management approaches while managing complex projects involving matrixed or multi-business environments and cross-functional teams; Required. 3+ years of Project Management experience within Operations; Required. Experience with modern agile approaches, continuous improvement projects / Kaizens (CIP); Preferred. Experience in regulated industry (i.e. FDA, ISO, etc.)