Sr. Director – Program Management
| Company | Copeland |
|---|---|
| Location | Bellefontaine, OH, USA |
| Salary | $Not Provided – $Not Provided |
| Type | Full-Time |
| Degrees | Bachelor’s, MBA |
| Experience Level | Senior, Expert or higher |
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in a Technical, Business Administration, Marketing, or related field
- Excellent program management skills in a complex, cross-functional industrial environment
- Proven track record of success in driving business initiatives within a matrixed, multi-site organization
- High level communication skills including conveying complex topics in an understandable and simple way
- Strong analytical and strategic thinking skills, with the ability to translate business insights into actionable strategies
- Excellent interpersonal skills, with the ability to build rapport and influence key stakeholders at all levels without having direct authority to manage their efforts
- Proven leadership experience, with the ability to inspire and motivate cross-functional teams to achieve common goals
- Highly organized and detail-oriented, with the ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously and meet tight deadlines
- Demonstrated ability to thrive in a fast-paced, dynamic environment, with a strong sense of urgency and initiative
- Ability to see opportunities others do not, and to formulate strategies to scope the opportunity, engage stakeholder buy in, and form high functioning teams
- Effective understanding of Lean processes and tools together with their appropriate application
- Ability to travel up to 10-15% (national and international)
Responsibilities
- Lead large new product development initiatives by guiding your team to identify and manage multiple parallel projects
- Identify and form cross functional teams across nearly every business discipline, carefully crafted to enable results, speed, and resource optimization
- Oversee the program management and product portfolio decisions that enable effective product lifecycle actions to drive value creation
- Drive product insight that will form up the product offering strategies and actions
- Collaboratively drive revenue growth through effective actions that support new product launches, transitions or changes
- Communicate with passion and persuasion to senior executives, peer groups and organizational segments of all types and levels
- Understand and then execute process improvements both within your core responsibilities, but also into other process opportunities within the greater business
- Ascertain profit improvement opportunities, scope the needed changes, and build teams and action plans to deliver those identified results
- Align with enterprise PMO initiatives, drive business implementation, and provide value add insight to help guide PMO effectiveness
- Maintain a global perspective while enabling regional adaptation for complex business changes
- Balance broad stakeholder needs with business outcomes and drive to measurable results
Preferred Qualifications
- Master’s degree preferred (MBA or similar)
- Professional certifications (e.g., PMP) and industry certifications (e.g., CCIE, CDCP)
- Global business leadership
- HVAC industry experience a plus
- Oracle system structure and interaction understanding