Description
The Division Project Management Office and Commercialization Leader will lead and manage the Division's PMO, driving commercialization excellence and overseeing division-wide portfolio governance.
Key responsibilities include:
- Leading a team of full-time Project Managers responsible for complex commercialization programs
- Championing step-change improvements to processes, tools, and ways of working
- Partnering with the PSD NPI Process Leader to ensure alignment with corporate New Product Introduction (NPI) expectations
- Overseeing division-wide portfolio governance and resource prioritization
- Leading capability building for the PMO and broader organization
- Tracking, reporting, and performance management of key NPI dashboard metrics
- Leading the annual NPI sales forecasting process and managing forecast updates
- Supporting the annual strategic planning process
- Serving as a key member of the Lab Operating Committee (LOC)
- Identifying, prioritizing, and leading process improvement opportunities
- Providing portfolio-level risk assessment and escalation to leadership
- Coaching and developing Project Managers
- Monitoring commercialization pipeline health and recommending portfolio shifts
The successful candidate will have:
- A Bachelor's degree or higher in Marketing, Science, or Engineering
- At least 5 years of commercialization leadership experience
- At least 5 years of combined supervisory and/or management experience
Preferred qualifications include:
- Experience designing and improving commercialization processes and associated systems
- Experience maximizing structure, process, and resources to optimize results
- Significant commercialization leadership within an ISO-certified or highly regulated business
- Global laboratory management experience
- Global business management leadership experience
- Experience in both technical and business management
- Experience in Scrum/Agile implementation and practice
- Experience in all aspects of commercialization, from pre-Idea through Post-Launch
- Significant International 3M experience and understanding of the 3M matrix
- Experience managing large budgets requiring prioritization and oversight