Portfolio Manager jobs in Youngstown, OH

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Reporting into our SVP, Chief Product and Technology Officer, the Global Corporate Portfolio Director will be responsible for driving alignment across functional and geographic leaders, managing a consolidated portfolio in line with executive leadership objectives, and fostering continuous improvement within our Engineering and IT departments. This role is pivotal in developing a culture that aligns with our business system, transforming processes to meet long-term strategic goals and keeping pace with technological and industry advancements.

Key Responsibilities:

• Strategic Leadership: Guide cross-functional teams globally, ensuring cohesive strategic direction and operational alignment.
• Portfolio Management: Oversee the portfolio to ensure it aligns with business goals, analyzing market trends, assessing risks, and identifying opportunities for acceleration.
• Communication and Relationship Management: Cultivate strong relationships with finance teams, stakeholders, and clients worldwide, enhancing seller satisfaction and driving positive outcomes.
• Analysis and Reporting: Utilize metrics and data visualization to report on portfolio performance and inform organizational decision-making.
• Governance and Best Practices: Implement portfolio management policies, standards, and methodologies, contributing to the development of common practices and tools.
• Continuous Improvement Focus: The successful candidate will champion continuous improvement in engineering and IT, integrating Lean and Agile methodologies with traditional product and process development.

The incumbent will:

Build a corporate portfolio process for MSA, and develop and initial prioritized portfolio:

• Financial Model Development: Partner with MSA finance to create and deploy a standardized financial model that will be applied to all portfolio projects, assessing their financial value.
• Project Scoring Criteria: Design a standardized project scoring framework that considers not only financial value but also strategic needs, implementation risks, and enterprise risks.
• Resource Estimation Tool Rollout: Implement a resource estimation tool across the portfolio, enabling global visibility into project timing and identifying bottlenecks.
• Collaboration with PMO Director: Work closely with the Director of the Project Management Office (PMO) to adjust resource planning and ensure successful portfolio implementation.
• Ongoing Portfolio Management: Develop and maintain a comprehensive portfolio management process covering strategic corporate initiatives, key continuous improvement (CI) programs, and global technology initiatives.

Drive a Continuous Improvement Culture and Strategically Evolve and Deploy MSA Engineering and IT Processes:

• NPD Process Enhancement: Create a robust strategy and implementation plan for continuous improvement of the NPD process, including related tools and sub-processes. This will involve better supporting evolving product development needs, technology integration, and the development of a connected product ecosystem.
• Engineering Disciplines Enablement: Ensure that our changing engineering disciplines (including electronics, software development, and system architecture) are well-supported by modern processes and methodologies.
• Process Culture in IT: Establish a culture of process excellence within the IT department, emphasizing efficiency, quality, and innovation.
• New Process Standards: Collaborate with IT leadership to develop and implement new process standards that align with our strategic goals.
• Process Ownership Alignment: Partner with engineering and IT domain leaders and program management to establish clear roles and responsibilities for business processes and deliverable ownership. Ensure alignment with Lean process management principles.
• Data-Driven Insights: Utilize data and key performance indicators (KPIs) to identify and prioritize improvement opportunities across the organization.
• Data Evangelism: Promote the effective use and maintenance of data at all levels, empowering individuals and teams to independently pursue improvement initiatives.
• R&D Alignment: Collaborate with the MSA Business System, Data Strategy, and Acquisition Integration teams to maintain alignment on key initiatives. Propose testing and piloting of new concepts within R&D when appropriate.

Lead R&D Process Transformation (including the implementation of Lean and Agile concepts in the NPD process):

• Oversee the work of an R&D Transformation leader (and potential additional associates), who will focus on optimizing the current waterfall-oriented stage-gate NPD process by introducing Lean and Agile concepts, with the goal of a tailor-made enabling process the best suits our current and future business needs and suits the way we need to work.

The successful candidate will possess:

Qualifications:

• Change Leadership: Ability to identify and drive organizational and cultural changes needed to strategically adapt to changing market demands, technology advancements, and internal initiatives. Proven ability to catalyze new approaches to improve results by transforming processes, products, and services.
• Strategic Thinking: A strategic and critical thinker with the ability to connect the dots across operational, product/integrated solutions, technology, customer, and finance issues.
• Technology Acumen: Capability to understand and utilize state-of-the-art enabling technologies in materials, design, and manufacturing processes for the development of innovative products.
• Interpersonal Skills: Highly-developed interpersonal skills enabling effective collaboration with associates at all levels of MSA.
• Team Building: Excellent team-building skills, with a proven ability to utilize appropriate methods and interpersonal styles to develop, motivate, and guide management and teams toward successful outcomes and business objectives.
• Coaching and Development: Demonstrated ability to coach and develop associates by providing feedback, instruction, and developmental guidance to help them excel.
• Delegation and Accountability: A proven track record of sharing authority and responsibilities with others to move decision-making and accountability downward through the organization.
• Global Leadership: Experience leading global program initiatives or driving process improvements across diverse geographies.
• Communication Skills: Excellent written and oral communication skills that can influence decisions and actions among stakeholders.
• Consulting and Change Management: Strong consulting skills and expertise in change management.
• Up to 30% travel to MSA Design centers (Cranberry, Berlin, Chatillon, Irvine, Devizes, Poole, and Suzhou) to advise and collaborate with NPD teams

Experience/Education:

• Bachelor's degree in engineering or other science or technical discipline.
• A minimum of 10 years of professional experience, including a successful track record in a combination of project management, portfolio management, engineering, new product development, and technology development.
• At least 3 years of direct management experience. Significant, successful project management or technical leadership experience may be substituted for direct people management, as appropriate.

Preferred Certifications:

• Lean Certification
• PMP Certification

Education Preferred:

• Master's degree in engineering or other science or technical discipline and/or MBA. Advanced degree can be substituted for 3 years' experience.

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