Nestle

Senior Project Management Specialist

Nestle

full-time

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Location Type: Office

Location: Fremont • Missouri • United States

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Job Level

Senior

Tech Stack

PMP

About the role

  • Lead and manage a wide range of complex research and development projects for Nestlé Nutrition's Global Baby Food Meals & Drinks Category, with a consumer-centric, growth mindset, and passion for innovation.
  • Includes the development of new science & technologies, new product launches, development of strategic roadmaps & pipelines, and new concept development.
  • Lead projects from the front end of innovation through industrialization and to launch.
  • Lead the definition and communication of project scope, objectives, and expectations in collaboration with senior management and stakeholders.
  • Navigate and facilitate Front-End innovation activities, distilling complexity and ambiguity and swiftly creating actions to enable decision making.
  • Align on the strategy and approach for initiating, planning, executing, monitoring, controlling, and closing the project.
  • Identify the project resource requirements and lead project planning.
  • Build and manage the end-to-end project schedule, define the critical path, track activities to ensure functional team members are meeting agreed upon deadlines, generate, and communicate status reports, and escalate critical issues.
  • Build and maintain project budget.

Requirements

  • Proven (at least five years) experience in project management of large-scale cross-functional and multidisciplinary projects with high business impact, preferably in a research / innovation driven environment
  • Experience in FMCG industry, in R&D and/or Operations/Manufacturing
  • BS in related science fields (e.g., Food science, Material sciences, Agricultural or Environmental sciences, Biology, Biochemistry, Chemistry, Packaging, or related sciences)
  • Project Management certification (e.g., PMP, ITIL, COBIT) and/or Nestlé PM dossier is a plus
  • Demonstrated Innovation mindset, with Consumer, Customer and Business Opportunity thinking
  • Excellent interpersonal and communication skills with the ability to lead, energize and steer multifunctional teams and to collaborate effectively with stakeholders.
  • Excellent coaching skills
  • Demonstrated growth mindset, with agility, courage, curiosity and resilience, adaptability to navigate in uncertain and ambiguous contexts and embracing risk mindset
  • Ability to travel 10 - 20%, domestically and internationally.
Benefits
  • It is our business imperative to remain a very inclusive workplace.
  • We recognize the exceptional engagement and innovation displayed by individuals with disabilities.
Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard Skills & Tools
project managementresearch and developmentproduct launchesstrategic roadmapsproject planningbudget managementcross-functional project managementinnovation developmentstatus reportingresource management
Soft Skills
interpersonal skillscommunication skillsleadershipcollaborationcoaching skillsagilitycuriosityresilienceadaptabilitygrowth mindset
Certifications
PMPITILCOBITNestlé PM dossier