Product Development Program Manager

About the role

JCI is looking for a New Product Development Program Manager to lead new product development programs through its stage-gate process for the Chiller Product Business Unit. The role is based at the JCI engineering and manufacturing site in Dublin, Ireland, and involves overseeing projects with some supervision.

Key responsibilities

• Lead cross-functional and regionally distributed teams through JCI's stage-gate development process.
• Initiate, plan and execute programs that meet targets for budget, quality, performance and time to market.
• Lead teams through scope discovery and decomposition to build detailed execution and resource plans.
• Manage and optimise collaboration between core, extended and support team members, contractors and consultants.
• Coach, mentor and motivate project team members to take ownership of their work.
• Create and deliver progress reports, presentations and status updates via dashboards, management reviews and team meetings.
• Proactively identify and resolve risks and issues, and manage project dependencies and the critical path.
• Work with other program managers, functional managers and executive leadership to achieve program objectives.

Required profile

• Bachelor of Science (BS) in Engineering or a related field with 3 years of experience in project management and/or leading technical teams or projects in a functional management role.
• Experience creating schedules, assigning tasks, running project meetings and building resource plans.
• Experience overseeing onsite and remote project teams across different functions.
• Ability to travel 10% or less within Europe or internationally.
• Preferred: experience leading projects through stage-gate product development, familiarity with the HVAC industry, and use of collaboration and work management platforms such as Microsoft Teams, Daptiv, Planview, Smartsheet or Wrike.

Required skills

• Project management planning tools such as Microsoft Project.
• Microsoft Office 365.