Sr. NPD Project Leader

Sr. NPD Project Leader Ubicación: Monterrey, NL. / Onsite Mexico Technical Center (MTC) Opportunity BASIC FUNCTION As a member of a New Product Development project team: • Focus on product categories for North America region including regional and global projects. • Lead product development teams to launch innovative new products and improve the quality, performance and/or cost of existing products. • Manage cross functional teams using the KBDP new product development process through market launch. Drive each Program to defined metrics. • Develop and manage the project budget with the team including development expense, capital tooling and expense tooling. Guide the team to develop new products that meet cost targets. • Develop and monitor project schedules and adhere to the KBDP process. Manage deliverables and tasks within each phase of a project. Anticipates and manages tasks/risks within each project. • Participate in performance expectations and evaluations for cross functional teams. Provide leadership and mentoring to less experienced team members as needed. • Communicate to senior management on project status, execution plans, and process. • Define and facilitate decision-making process for development teams. Coaches project team personnel to develop and implement cross-functional solutions to complex issues. • Establish and maintain relationships with senior management for the purpose of aligning NPD objectives and removing obstacles for project completion. • Drive improvements in creative problem solving and continually improve the KBDP process and organization. SPECIFIC RESPONSIBILITIES Project Management: • Lead regional and global projects of moderate-to-high complexity, risk and business impact. • Provide structure and leadership for solving technically complex design and business problems. • Proactively identify and plan for project risks, communicating risk clearly, early and appropriately to management • Managing your assigned projects' timing and financial adherence to plan. Leadership • Challenge project teams to achieve innovative solutions. • Willing and successful in taking moderate risk. • Identify opportunities for organizational and process change. • Work effectively when organizational structure or processes are unclear or conflicting. • Lead brainstorming discussions. • Able to facilitate resolve conflict and problem solving. Decision-making • Make decisions with moderate levels of ambiguity. • Chooses 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. RELATIONSHIPS AND CONTACTS Supervisory Relationships: •Direct report to Director, Program Management Organization Relationships: • Frequent collaboration with global Marketing, Purchasing, Industrial Design, Engineering, Manufacturing, Finance, Legal and Quality and other groups associated with the New Product Development process. • Frequent contact with Global Platform Team and appropriate Category Management Team to give status updates on project performance and to address problem solving needs. External Business Relationships: • Collaboration with suppliers, some global. • Contact with customers and consumers.