At Lindt, we are a global fast-growing consumer goods company, enchanting the world with premium chocolate. We are driven by our passion for excellence and go the extra mile ensuring that every Lindt experience is nothing short of exceptional. Our collective efforts are geared towards making a positive impact, not only in the world of premium chocolate but also in the lives of our employees, customers, and communities. Our company embraces a culture defined by the core values of Excellence, Innovation, Entrepreneurship, Responsibility, and Collaboration, fostering a dynamic and collaborative environment where these principles drive our success.
Position Purpose:
The Project Manager is responsible for developing and managing the cross-functional effort to deliver high priority, complex projects. The role is predominantly focused on the development of new products or complex change to existing products. The Project Manager works closely with the entire cross functional team to deliver business results.
This is a hybrid role that requires three days per week in our Stratham, NH corporate office.
Essential Job Functions & Responsibilities:
Project Management
- Ensure the successful and timely completion of multiple new product development projects occurring simultaneously through the MAGIC process.
- Create project plans and timelines and deliverables to document scope, requirements, feasibility and risks for individual projects.
- Define key milestones and risks where decisions are needed and manage the cross-functional team and business processes to ensure decisions are made on time.
- Maintain a thorough understanding of internal metrics and hold cross-functional teams accountable to the achievement of key results.
- Manage project risk through comprehensive mitigation assessment and planning techniques.
Process Management
- Capture and maintain project data in the Product Lifecycle Management system to ensure team members can access current/latest project information.
- Develop and track key performance measures and design and implement process changes to improve performance as needed and agreed.
- Facilitate consistent and productive communications between cross-functional team members and/or stakeholders, ensuring relevant and productive outcomes.
Qualifications & Requirements:
Skills & Knowledge:
- Highly proficient in Excel, Word and PowerPoint
- Strong analytical skills with demonstrated problem solving initiative and capabilities
- Understanding of internal functional roles within a corporate and manufacturing environment
- Strong interpersonal, communication, and writing skills
- Hands-on experience managing projects with multiple parties and complex timelines
- Experience with complex, multi-channel business in a fast-moving CPG environment
- Cross-functional team management, demonstrating ability to collaborate with others to drive results, with regular interaction with Senior Management Team
- New product development/commercialization, brand management or supply chain management experience in CPG industry (preferred)
Education:
- Bachelor's Degree – Business, Engineering or other relevant discipline
- Formal project management training and/or education
Total Rewards:
Compensation Range: $99,000.00-$127,000.00
Applicants for this position must be currently authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis. The company will not sponsor applicants for this position for work visas.
Lindt USA’s salary range reflects market rates based on our size, revenue, and location. Starting pay is determined using a wide range of factors including, but not limited to, job-related skills, knowledge, and experience as well as market conditions. A bonus and/or long-term incentive may be included as part of this compensation package.
Lindt and Sprüngli is an equal opportunity employer and considers all qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color, national origin, religion, sex, disability, age, veteran status, or any other classification protected by state, local or federal law. Applicants for this position must successfully pass a background screening and may be required to pass drug screenings as well.
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Skills Required
- Highly proficient in Microsoft Excel, Word, and PowerPoint
- Strong analytical, problem-solving, interpersonal, communication, and writing skills
- Understanding of internal functional roles in corporate and manufacturing environments
- Hands-on experience managing projects involving multiple parties and complex timelines
- Experience with complex, multi-channel business in a fast-moving CPG environment
- Experience managing cross-functional teams and interacting with senior management
- Bachelor's degree in Business, Engineering, or another relevant discipline
- Formal project management training and/or education
- New product development or commercialization, brand management, or supply chain management experience in the CPG industry
What We Do
The Lindt & Sprüngli Group - premium chocolate for more than 175 years Lindt & Sprüngli is recognized as a leader in the market for premium quality chocolate, offering a large selection of products in more than 120 countries around the world. During 175 years of Lindt & Sprüngli's existence, it has become known as one of the most innovative and creative companies making premium chocolate. The beginnings of Lindt & Sprüngli are in 1845, when father and son for the first time manufactured solid chocolate in their small confectionery Sprüngli & Son, at that time yet a partnership. Since then, the company has gone through many different eras, but the entrepreneurial spirit and passion for making chocolate that drove both the Sprüngli family as well as Rodolphe Lindt, when he invented the first truly melting chocolate and later on sold his business to Sprüngli, are still alive. Today, quality chocolate products by Lindt & Sprüngli are made at 12 own production sites in Europe and the USA. They are distributed by 36 subsidiaries and branch offices, in more than 530 own stores, and also via a comprehensive network of more than 100 independent distributors around the globe. With more than 14,500 employees, the Lindt & Sprüngli Group reported sales of CHF 5.2 billion in 2023.
