Senior Project Manager-R&D NPD

Key Responsibilities

• Manage all activities of the New Product Development Process phases: Ideation, Scoping, Concept, Development, Scale-up, and commercial launch.
• Oversees and manages the operational aspects of ongoing projects and serves as liaison between project management and planning, project team, and cross-functional teams management.
• Develop project plan, risk-based timeline and budget to support project goals, including tracking and monitoring activities.
• Lead cross-functional teams through identification of risks & mitigations, problem resolution and root cause analysis, corrective and preventive action.
• Manage project communications to all stakeholders (project teams, functional managers, and senior management).
• Ensure compliance with quality and regulatory requirements, where applicable.
• Facilitate the exchange of information between departments on a day-to-day basis and maintain liaison with all members of the project team between project team.
• Lead the team to prepare for and execute Phase Gate.
• Represent the team with RAS leaders, ensuring such decisions are informed by a balanced and clearly articulated representation of the relevant data.
• Leverage technical acumen to partner with R&D, manufacturing, and ISC teams, monitor development progress, and ensure alignment between technical deliverables and program timelines.
• Collaborate and act as the key liaison between cross-functional and external vendors.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in science or engineering related is required (e.g, Chemistry, Chemical Engineering, Material sciences, or related sciences).
• Proven 6-8 years of experience in successfully leading complex, multiyear new product development programs delivered through high performing cross-functional teams based in a matrix organization.
• Willing to travel up to 20%.

Skills

• Exceptional analytical, critical thinking and problem-solving skills coupled to strong business, strategic and financial knowledge.
• Expert in the development and deployment of program management tools and techniques including methods for tracking progress, risk management and delivery of major milestones.
• Understanding of engineering development lifecycles and the ability to translate technical inputs into program-level actions and timelines.
• Excellent influencing skills with the ability to achieve challenging goals through others without direct authority across different functions and external partners.
• Drive for accountability within self and others.
• Prominent project management experience with delivering medium-to large-scale projects from concept through delivery and operations.
• Relentless advocacy for the customer with a focus on meeting or exceeding customer requirements. Driving the team to make trade-offs that optimize customer and business value while maintaining program velocity and outcomes that sustain the highest standards of quality.

Benefits

Comprehensive benefits package including employer-subsidized Medical, Dental, Vision, and Life Insurance; Short-Term and Long-Term Disability; 401(k) match, Flexible Spending Accounts, Health Savings Accounts, EAP, and Educational Assistance; Parental Leave, Paid Time Off (for vacation, personal business, sick time, and parental leave), and 12 Paid Holidays.

About Us

Solstice Advanced Materials is a leading global specialty materials company that advances science for smarter outcomes. Solstice offers high-performance solutions that enable critical industries and applications, including refrigerants, semiconductor manufacturing, data center cooling, nuclear power, protective fibers, healthcare packaging and more. Solstice is recognized for developing next-generation materials through some of the industry's most renowned brands such as Solstice®, Genetron®, Aclar®, Spectra®, Fluka™, and Hydranal™. Partnering with over 3,000 customers across more than 120 countries and territories and supported by a robust portfolio of over 5,700 patents, Solstice’s approximately 4,000 employees worldwide drive innovation in materials science.