Project Manager - NPD

At Fiskars Group we are unified and driven by our common purpose: pioneering design to make the everyday extraordinary. Join our team and seize the extraordinary opportunity to influence the everyday!

Established in 1649 as an ironworks, Fiskars has grown to be a leading consumer goods company. Today, Fiskars serves people around the world with a brand portfolio of globally recognized brands including Fiskars, Gerber, Iittala, Royal Copenhagen, Waterford, and Wedgwood. We are building a family of iconic lifestyle brands with the vision to create a positive, lasting impact on our quality of life.

Gerber is an American brand that is dedicated to crafting problem-solving, life-saving knives, multi-tools, cutting tools, and equipment. Whether to save time, save the day, or save a life, Gerber products have delivered for over 75 years. Gerber's storied past paved the way for an innovative, product-driven future. Carried by soldiers, hunters, and tradesmen alike, Gerber products are developed intentionally to deliver task-specific or mission-essential knives, tools, and equipment. Whether used to Explore, Hunt, Survive, or Work, Gerber tackles the tasks of daily life head on.

Gerber is searching for a Project Manager, New Product Development to join our amazing team in Portland!

About the Role:

The Project Manager, NPD is primarily responsible for leading cross-function product development projects from initiation through close. The Project Manager, NPD is accountable to manage project activities along with managing team communication, risk assessments and reporting on project status. This role is highly collaborative across various functions where you will indirectly manage the cross-functional resources assigned to each project. The role is expected to lead complex projects under limited supervision and instruction.

What You'll Be Doing:

Manage product development project plans, schedules and action registers from concept development through initial production launch to ensure that projects are successfully completed from cost, quality and schedule perspectives. Ensure that key project documents are completed and stored in the project library. At project closure, capture and share key lessons learned.

Lead cross-functional teams in the identification, tracking, and management via appropriate mitigation plans of project risk. Report on risk as needed, facilitate technical project review meetings and present project risk and status at gate review meetings.

Monitor, track and report on project status, key performance indicators and any changes to scope using established tools - including the master project list, dashboard reports, regular project updates and gate review presentations.

Support the development, maintenance and ongoing improvement of an efficient and effective product development process, project management tools and techniques, and related documents. Ensure that team members understand and adhere to requirements, providing assistance and training as needed.

What You Can Bring to the Organization:

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree or higher
• Planning; priority setting; relationship building; time management; informing; organizing; decision making
• Proficient with project management software; Microsoft Office Suite; Phase gate process

Desired Qualifications:

• Coursework or certification in project management
• Experience in consumer products or in a manufacturing environment
• MS Project, Agile PLM; Basic technical knowledge of product development and product manufacturing processes.

This position is out of our Gerber/Portland office and will be a hybrid role.

*If you feel you are a great candidate for this role despite missing some of the experience outlined, please apply with a cover letter explaining why you feel this way. We understand that skills can come from many forms of experience and will look at transferrable skills where we can.

The company offers benefits for Full-Time employees including medical/dental/vision, paid time off, 401(k), discount on all of our beautiful products as well as many other benefits/programs for our employees.

Last day of application:
2022-07-16

Fiskars Group wants to support the growth of our employees' families. We offer expanded paid leave for parents and military families for all our full-time employees at all locations across the United States. This benefits include fully paid parental leave during birth of a baby, adoption and foster care as well as paid military family benefit. Find out more about the details and guideline of this benefit from the hiring manager or recruiter.

Fiskars Group is the global home of design-driven brands for indoor and outdoor living. Our brands include Fiskars, Gerber, Iittala, Royal Copenhagen, Moomin by Arabia, Waterford, and Wedgwood. Our brands are present in more than 100 countries and we have more than 350 own stores. We have 7,000 employees and our global net sales in 2021 were EUR 1.3 billion.

We are driven by our common purpose: Pioneering design to make the everyday extraordinary. Since 1649, we have designed products of timeless, purposeful, and functional beauty, while driving innovation and sustainable growth.

Read more: fiskarsgroup.com

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