Associate Manager, Project Management - Home Fragrance

Associate Manager, Project Management - Home Fragrance

Racine, Wisconsin

Drive innovation from concept to consumer as part of SC Johnson's Home Fragrance Research, Development & Engineering team. As the Associate Manager, Project Management, you'll lead a diverse portfolio of innovation and commercialization projects, guiding cross‑functional teams through SC Johnson's End‑to‑End (E2E) product development process. You'll bring ideas to life by aligning teams around clear goals, managing timelines and risks, and ensuring successful execution from ideation through launch.

This is an opportunity to make a tangible impact by delivering breakthrough products that delight consumers around the world.

• Leverage business acumen to understand market and category dynamics to optimize business results.
• Take on large or complex project/program management assignments.
• Lead potentially ambiguous project scoping to ensure a winning proposition and project success criteria are defined to deliver business objectives, including costs, timing, and risks.
• Demonstrate leadership skills on high‑visibility projects by proactively communicating project risks, sponsor updates, and trade‑off discussions.
• Develop and execute project plan in collaboration with cross‑functional teams, including detailed timelines, milestones, budget, resources, and risk management.
• Ensure all cross‑functional team members are engaged and aligned on the project plan, managing risk and trade‑off discussions with stakeholders to enable progress against aligned milestones.
• Model strong cross‑functional leadership skills, including effective communication, financial acumen, integrated risk management, project management, quality, robustness, regulation & safety, scientific rigor, and technical curiosity.
• Apply rigorous timeline and risk management practices to effectively manage technical and timeline risks and identify solutions for the most critical path elements.
• Provide clear and consistent communication within the team and manage updates and escalations to stakeholders, sponsors, and executives as necessary.
• Demonstrate SCJ Success Drivers and establish a “Mindset to Win” culture, moving with speed, creativity, and a high degree of initiative.
• Influence without authority across multiple levels of the organization, keeping teams working well together.
• Operate in a complex, non‑structured environment.

Bachelor’s degree in a technical discipline and 5+ years of experience in development and commercialization of consumer product, 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.

• 5+ years of technical experience (e.g., chemist, engineer, packaging) or supply chain experience.
• Demonstrated leadership experience in managing projects from end‑to‑end, including timeline development, leading risk trade‑off discussions, sponsor updates, and escalations.
• Experience in new product launches, contract manufacturing, and financial analysis related to supply chain.
• Strong understanding and experience using AI technologies and software for project management tasks, including timeline generation, scheduling, risk analysis, sponsor communication, and reporting.
• Technical breadth and depth in product development and commercialization, global product experience, technology trends, competitive and IP landscape, systems, analytical test methods, and leveraging external technologies.
• Strong problem‑solving and decision‑making abilities.
• 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 a track record of presenting ideas with courage and conviction and ability to present project updates at all levels of management.

• Full‑time position.
• Up to 10% travel.
• Office environment, Racine, WI;
  Remote work available one…