Lead, Project Management

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This position is not eligible for Visa Sponsorship.

Nestlé USA (NUSA) has an opening for a Lead, Project Management, focused on the Marketing and Sales functions, responsible for executing top priority projects and strategic initiatives within an industry‑leading company focused on accelerating sustainable growth. The Strategy & Transformation Project Management Office maximizes value realization for the organization by disseminating a pragmatic project management mindset to proactively simplify, optimize, and accelerate projects, decisions, and actions.

The dynamic nature of the role involves working across a wide variety of projects, stakeholders, and business units to provide Project Management expertise that drives integration, re‑engineering, and growth initiatives. This role applies strategic thinking, a structured transformation framework and strong business and leadership acumen to manage and deliver complex programs and projects.

• Deliver Quality: PMs are evaluated on how their project contributions positively impacted the business and delivered full value (to include business acceptance and change management).
• Build Business Acumen: PMs have expansive business knowledge that helps contextualize and unlock greater project impacts or match existing skills to business needs.
• Optimize Time: Make optimal use of time to accelerate projects and free up functional SMEs’ bandwidth.
• Support Through Insights & Analysis: Help the business move through obstacles by identifying and mitigating risk to future project value or business growth and providing the supporting analysis within the overall suggested decision‑making framework.
• Manage Stakeholders: Act as the leader and conduit of information to Leadership by bring a forward‑focused and problem‑solving mindset to leadership updates.
• Ensure
  
  Collaboration:
  
  Coordinate across the organization to realize efficiencies, raise awareness of interdependencies, facilitate handoffs, and create connectivity across people and projects. Lead through influence rather than direct authority.
• Establish Governance: Implement a robust governance structure, facilitate appropriate communication of progress, risks, and escalations to Leadership, Project Stakeholders, and the broader Organization.
• Continuous Improvement: Accelerate the discovery and implementation of key learnings to allow for continuous improvement.

• Prior experience embedding yourself in key business areas to serve as a business partner or trusted advisor with the ability to express complex matters in simple to understand terms.
• Ability to apply tailored Project Management and Change Management principles (ex: Waterfall, Scrum, ADKAR, etc.)
• Exceptional leader with the ability to influence Upwards, Downwards, and Sideways; often without formal authority.
• Must have high integrity, be fast learner, have a high degree of curiosity to understand all project details.
• Strong problem analysis skills coupled with the ability to quickly make sound judgements and decisions while managing concurrent work streams.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills that result in effective coordination, teamwork, shared knowledge, and ideas.
• Must have outstanding planning and organizing skills coupled with the ability to embrace…