Sr. Project Leader-Sauna, Wellness Products
Work Mode: Hybrid
Location: Hybrid – Kohler, WI
Opportunity
As a member of a New Product Development project team:
- Lead product development teams to launch innovative new products and improve the quality, performance or cost of existing products in alignment with the Wellness Products Strategy & Product Roadmap.
- Project Planning and Scheduling – develop detailed project plans, outlining tasks, timelines, resources, and budgets
- Team coordination and leadership – lead and manage project teams, ensuring effective communication and collaboration
- Budget and Resource management – Develop and manage project budgets, ensuring efficient allocation of resources
- Risk Management – Identify potential project risks and develop mitigation strategies
- Stakeholder communication – Act as the primary point of contact for project stakeholders. Provide regular updates to senior management and other relevant parties
- Define and facilitate decision-making process for development teams. Coach project team personnel to develop and implement cross-functional solutions to complex issues.
Specific Responsibilities
Project Management
- Lead regional and global projects of moderate-to-high complexity, risk and business impact.
- Set clear project objectives, deliverables, and milestones
- Assign tasks, track progress, and resolve issues or conflicts as they arise
- Track expenditures and course correct the team to make any necessary adjustments to stay within the planned budget
- Monitor and manage project risks throughout the project life cycle
- Maintain detailed project documentation, including reports, meeting minutes, and timelines
Leadership
- Facilitate workshops across the development process ranging from Kickoff Intent, Design Insight, Design for Environment and Lean Product Development.
- Provide structure and leadership for solving technically complex design and business problems.
- Mentor other project leaders and team members of other functional areas.
- Willing and successful in taking moderate risk.
- Work effectively when organizational structure or processes are unclear or conflicting.
- Lead brainstorming discussions
- Identify opportunities for organizational and process change.
- Able to facilitate & resolve conflict and problem solving.
Decision-making
- Make decisions with moderate levels of ambiguity.
- Choose appropriate action and alternatives with rationale that is consistent with facts, constraints, and predicted consequences.
- Take independent action with insight into global and regional business impact.
- Willing to speak up and raise concern in global and regional settings.
- Provide options, scenarios and recommendations to overcome obstacles.
More about the Wellness Products business
The newly created Wellness Products business has been charged with becoming the premier Mind & Body Wellness provider for at home and professional spa sanctuaries. The objective of this business is to not only grow an already wellness-centric product portfolio, but also create a clearly differentiated go to market strategy with a tailored angle to captivate the target audience with unforgettable showroom and digital destinations. Applicants must be passionate about wellness and having expertise in the ever-growing market is a plus! Given the start-up nature of this business, applicants must possess a bias for action, an ability to continually assess with openness to pivot as the market dynamic changes and must be team-oriented with a willingness to dive in and support with whatever is needed. Prior start up experience is preferred.
Skills/Requirements
- Marketing, or Design) with a minimum of 5 years of experience in concurrent product development (project management, product design, process engineering or manufacturing engineering).
- Global product development experience is preferred but not required.
- Some travel to suppliers or manufacturing locations, estimated at 10-15% and can be flexible, managed on a case-by-case basis
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