Project Manager, Operations Management

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

Program Ownership & Delivery

Lead the full lifecycle of complex, cross-functional programs from definition through execution and launch, with a strong focus on new product development, commercialization, and product lifecycle initiatives for sourced and manufactured goods.

Manage projects using a structured Stage-Gate / phase-gate project management approach, ensuring clear scope definition, gate readiness, decision-making, deliverables, timelines, budgets, and cross-functional accountability at each phase.

Drive accountability across teams to meet timelines, scope, and financial targets, including cost, quality, sourcing, manufacturing readiness, and launch requirements.

Proactively identify risks, dependencies, and tradeoffs—own mitigation plans, including risks related to suppliers, tooling, materials, manufacturing capacity, quality testing, capital equipment, logistics, and production readiness.

Coordinate product development and commercialization activities across engineering, product management, sourcing/procurement, operations, supply chain, quality, finance, sales, external suppliers, and manufacturing sites.

Support successful product launches by driving alignment on project charters, scope, schedules, resource plans, cost targets, business cases, testing/validation plans, launch criteria, and production release activities.

Partner with product, engineering, operations, supply chain, sourcing/procurement, and business leaders to define program priorities and sequencing across new product development, product improvement, sourcing, cost reduction, and manufacturing initiatives.

Ensure resources are aligned to the highest-value initiatives, including resources required for design, sourcing, supplier engagement, tooling, testing, manufacturing readiness, and commercialization.

Continuously evaluate portfolio tradeoffs based on business impact, customer value, margin improvement, speed to market, operational feasibility, sourcing strategy, and manufacturing capacity.

Support portfolio reviews by providing clear visibility to project status, gate progression, resource constraints, risks, investment needs, and launch timing.

Design, build, and maintain a program health dashboard that tracks:

• Milestones and schedule adherence
• Risks, blockers, and dependencies
• Resource allocation and capacity
• Financial performance vs. plan
• KPI and ROI tracking

• Stage-Gate status, gate deliverables, gate decisions, and launch readiness

• Project scope, business case assumptions, cost targets, capital requirements, tooling status, supplier readiness, quality/testing status, and manufacturing readiness

Establish standardized health metrics and reporting cadence across all programs using a consistent Stage-Gate project governance process.

Translate complex program data into clear executive insights and actions, not just status updates, with particular emphasis on decisions required to keep product development, sourcing, and manufacturing launch plans on track.

Ensure leadership has a single source of truth for all active initiatives across the new product development and commercialization portfolio.

Serve as the central point of coordination across product, engineering, operations, supply chain, sourcing/procurement, quality, finance, sales, manufacturing sites, and external partners including suppliers, contract manufacturers, tooling vendors, and equipment partners.

Communicate program status, risks, and decisions to senior leadership with clarity and precision, including escalation of gate decisions, launch risks, cost impacts, quality concerns, supplier issues, and…