Project Manager - Industrialization

Summary

The Project Manager - Product Industrialization supports Industrialization efforts in product creation and lifecycle projects, driving supply chain strategy and material flow, as the link between Innovation (R&D) and Operations. Acting in the Lead Supply Chain role, this position is responsible for coordinating all supply chain functions within the project, ensuring that supply chain decisions are made in a structured and timely manner.

It involves engaging relevant stakeholders and adhering to both the global supply chain strategy and Belimo’s processes for product creation (PCP) and product / process changes (PPC). They will coordinate projects with Manufacturing Excellence (Lead Make) and Equipment Engineering (Lead Equipment) resources, ensuring cost, timeline, and logistic objectives are met.

Summary

The Project Manager - Product Industrialization supports Industrialization efforts in product creation and lifecycle projects, driving supply chain strategy and material flow, as the link between Innovation (R&D) and Operations. Acting in the Lead Supply Chain role, this position is responsible for coordinating all supply chain functions within the project, ensuring that supply chain decisions are made in a structured and timely manner.

It involves engaging relevant stakeholders and adhering to both the global supply chain strategy and Belimo’s processes for product creation (PCP) and product / process changes (PPC). They will coordinate projects with Manufacturing Excellence (Lead Make) and Equipment Engineering (Lead Equipment) resources, ensuring cost, timeline, and logistic objectives are met.

• Lead end-to-end supply chain design and implementation across projects and product life cycle, embedding all inputs into a structured decision-making process
• Lead industrialization as a core team member in product creation projects representing Lead Supply Chain (Industrialization) goals
• Serve as project manager for lifecycle projects, owning the planning, management, deliverables, and CAPEX in the project
• Consult with Innovation & PMO in the product creation process as well as to the supply chain steering committee
• Lead and motivate the Industrialization project team consisting of the roles Lead Make, Lead Equipment, Lead Planning, and Lead Sourcing
• Perform supply chain feasibility, gap, and risk analyses
• Define and implement the supply chain concept and strategy for the project
• Enable footprint decisions (regions/plants), including make-or-buy and single-vs-multiple sourcing, based on interdisciplinary alignment
• Structure products, regions, and volumes from a broad strategy and translate them into optimized product architecture and variant trees
• Define project stakeholder requirements and architectural drivers to guide product engineering
• Influence product design based on supply chain capabilities
• Validate product concepts (mock-ups) and product designs (prototypes) against supply chain requirements
• Plan and validate allocation of production and customization capacities
• Create the end-to-end product journey with input from Lead Make resources
• Oversee supplier selection within project for components and modules including requirements to suppliers
• Define requirements for processes, equipment, and quality in manufacturing with input from respective teams
• Involve packaging engineering for end-to-end packaging and labeling
• Lead the ramp-up of production capacities (materialization) across internal and external suppliers (incl. alpha-, beta- & pilot-series builds)
• Lead or support other activities of the manufacturing engineering roadmap (cost optimization, automation, transfers, integration)

• BS in Engineering (Industrial, Electrical, Mechanical)
• Further education in project management (certification is a plus)
• 3+ years of experience in product development and industrialization of devices and/or development of supply chain strategy
• 3+ years of experience in interdisciplinary project management within a company manufacturing mass-produced goods
• Experienced with task & project management tools (e.g. Sciforma, Jira, Confluence)
• Experience with supply chain management/strategy development
• Experience…