Global Marketing Project Manager

The project management role is a full-time position and is one of functional integration, coordination, and project leadership. The project manager is a critical resource for effective product development in the Sherwin Williams Packaging environment. The project manager integrates, coordinates, guides, and manages project deliverables and resources in order to achieve the highest results in cost, schedule and quality performance for the portfolio of projects under his/her auspices.

To achieve consistent project management success, the project manager must demonstrate proficiency in a diverse mix of skill-sets and competencies in the following areas:

* Project Management Best Practices
* Team Leadership
* Results Orientation and Accountability
* Global Business Knowledge and Customer Focus
* Influencing, Negotiating, and Relationship Management
* Communication Management and Consensus Building
* Critical Thinking

Additional Information:
Up to 20% travel

Job duties include contact with other employees and access confidential and proprietary information
and/or other items of value, and such access may be supervised or unsupervised. The Company therefore has determined that a review of criminal history is necessary to protect the business and its operations and reputation and is necessary to protect the safety of the Company's staff, employees, and business relationships.

Initiation

• Collaborate with the market managers, business directors and segment marketing team (project stakeholders) to develop a sound project charter and a comprehensive understanding of business requirements and expectations.
• Integrate other functional contributors in order to develop a sound conceptual understanding of the project's life cycle requirements (product development through and including commercial development).
• Assist project stakeholders with conceptual cost, schedule and resource estimating - budgeting.

Planning

• Develop the project's infrastructure for future project phases.
• Identify, task and manage the planning/scope development deliverables of the required functional contributors.
• Integrate the functional deliverables to develop a sound preliminary scope statement and project baselines.
• Identify, communicate, and develop mitigation-contingency strategies for risks that may be a detriment to the project's objectives.
• Refine planning deliverables to a "definitive state" prior to moving the project to its execution phase.
• Develop the project management plan and its constituent elements utilizing the appropriate project and organizational resources in order to guide the project's execution-monitoring/control and closing phases.

Execution - monitoring/control

• Implement project monitoring and control strategies in order to track deliverable performance against the proposed baseline (cost, schedule, quality, and scope)
• Manage project resources to their respective deliverables development schedules and assist in recovery planning where required. Facilitates project performance tracking meetings to ensure baseline conformance.
• Report on the project's progress using methods and technologies described within the Project Management Plan and in a manner that promotes cohesiveness, transparency, and timely-effective decision making.
• Effectively monitor and manage project risk by implementing sound mitigation and contingency plans (planning phase) where required.
• Implements integrated change management practices in order to control "scope creep" and deviation from the project's chartered objectives.
• Ensure projects are executed according to the Packaging Stage-Gate Program, including completion of all required deliverables and preparation of timely gate reviews.

Closing

• Develops and implements transition plans for the project's product(s) into commercial development and maintenance of business processes.
• Ensure that all deliverables have been completed or have been considered for different disposition.
• Coordinates all resource transitions with the respective functional managers.
• Conducts all required project audit and lessons learned sessions. Ensures that project lessons learned are published and where critical; are properly addressed for process improvement initiatives.
• Ensures proper archiving of all project documentation.

Minimum Requirements

• Must be at least eighteen (18) years of age

• Must be legally authorized to work in the country of employment without needing sponsorship for employment work visa status now or in the future (e.g., OPT, CPT, H1B, EB-1,etc.)

• Must have a bachelor's degree or higher in business, project management, marketing, chemistry, or engineering

• Must have at least 5 years experience in project management, product development, operations, or marketing within the paint and coatings industry

• Must have at least one (1) year of experience using Microsoft Office products (e.g. Word, Excel, Power Point, Teams, and/or Outlook)
• Must have prior work experience maintaining and analyzing data

Preferred Qualifications

• Have a master's degree or higher

• Have experience working in packaging and coatings