Join SC Johnson's International Consumer Brands Air Care team as an Associate Manager, Global Project Management, and play a key role in bringing innovative products to market. In this highly collaborative position, you will lead cross-functional teams through the End-to-End New Product Development process, ensuring projects are delivered on time, aligned to business objectives, and positioned for successful commercialization.
As a project leader, you will drive alignment across functions, manage project timelines and risks, facilitate decision-making, and ensure execution against key milestones. Working with global and regional stakeholders, you will proactively navigate challenges, lead trade-off discussions, and help teams deliver innovative solutions that meet consumer and business needs.
This is an opportunity to make a meaningful impact on SC Johnson's Air Care portfolio by combining strategic thinking, collaboration, and executional excellence to bring innovation to life.
- Lead cross functional project teams from Ideation through Launch for a wide range of project types (Expand Innovation, Adjacent, Core, and Portfolio Management)
- Leverage business acumen to understand market and category dynamics to optimize business results; Demonstrate SCJ Success Drivers and establish a “Mindset to Win” Culture
- Execute the technical plan and coordinates activities of functional team members to execute validation test plans that will meet commitments of key technical deliverables
- Influence others to drive project progress in functional area
- Model strong R&D functional skills, including appropriate skills in effective communication, financial acumen, integrated risk management, project management, quality, robustness, regulation & safety, scientific rigor, and technical curiosity
- Demonstrate the ability to pivot between working with a front-end team operating in ambiguity and operating in execution
- Apply rigorous timeline and risk management practices to effectively manage technical and timeline risks
- Apply root cause analysis and problem-solving skills to identify the most critical factors that impact successful project implementation
- Draw on scientific and functional expertise to enable successful development and commercialization
- Provide consistent communication with cross-functional team and internal stakeholders
- Participate in the Project Management Community of Practice
- Bachelor’s degree in a technical discipline and 5+ years of experience in development and commercialization of consumer product goods, or a master’s degree with at least 3+ years relevant work experience
- Qualified candidates must be legally authorized to work in the United States without the need for current or future sponsorship for full-time employment.
- Proven track record working with design and manufacturing partners outside the organization
- Ability to create and utilize development methods and tools, such as DOEs, to solve technical problems and deliver claims
- Technical breadth and depth in product development and commercialization, global products experience, technology trends, competitive and IP landscape, systems, analytical test methods, sustainability, and leveraging external technologies
- Self-driven, results-oriented with a clear focus on high quality and timely delivery of objectives
- Natural forward planner who critically assesses own performance and is reliable, tolerant, determined, and empathic communicator
- Excellent communicator with track record of presenting ideas with courage and conviction
- Experience leading front-end Innovation projects and programs
- Previous experience working with international team members and partners
- Office Environment, Racine, WI; Remote work available one day a week after 90-day onboarding period
- This role is not eligible for domestic relocation assistance
- Other duties, responsibilities and activities may change or be assigned at any time with or without notice as assigned by the Manager. The job description does not constitute a contract of employment and the position remains at-will.