In this Role, Your Responsibilities Will Be:
- Drive planning, execution, and delivery of complex projects focused on post-sales services, such as:
- New service offering definitions
- Capability enablement across service functions
- Process improvements or digital transformations supporting service delivery
- Lead cross-functional teams comprising collaborators from Services, Business Units, Manufacturing, IT, Product Management, Test Engineering, Service Engineering, etc.
- Establish clear project goals, timelines, and deliverables aligned with business priorities.
- Track and manage interdependencies, risks, and resource allocations across concurrent projects.
- Facilitate effective communication, decision-making, and issue resolution across all levels of the organization.
- Ensure adherence to project scope, budget (where applicable), quality, and timelines.
- Provide regular status reporting and access to collaborators and leaders.
- Lead change management activities, including collaborator consensus, communications planning, and adoption measurement.
- Ensure alignment with broader business goals and customer success metrics.
Who You Are
You lead with a strong focus on execution, delivering service transformation initiatives that improve delivery performance, scale capabilities, and elevate the customer experience. You persist through challenges to achieve a measurable business impact.
You proactively develop positive relationships with a broad network of collaborators, serving as a trusted liaison across Services, Product R&D, IT, and Business Units. You align diverse interests through engagement, clear communication, and a shared focus on customer success.
You communicate with clarity and intent, tailoring messages for both technical and executive audiences to enable decision-making and foster alignment across global, cross-functional teams. You promote transparency and open dialogue to keep complex service initiatives on track.
For This Role You Will Need:
- Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Business, or related field (Master’s or equivalent experience preferred).
- Experience of over 5 years of project or program management experience, particularly in services, engineering, or technology-focused fields
- Proven experience leading cross-functional teams without direct authority.
- Strong understanding of post-sales services (e.g., service delivery, hardware support, field services, service engineering, or customer support operations).
- Excellent organizational, communication, and collaborator management skills.
- Experience with project management tools and methodologies (Agile, Waterfall, or hybrid).
- Experience using reporting and visualization tools such as Power BI is a plus.
- PMP, PMI-ACP, or similar certification is a plus.
- Willing to work on a hybrid model in Escazú, Costa Rica or in our Mexico City office (depending on your current location).
Preferred Qualifications That Set You Apart:
- Excellent organizational, communication, and collaborator management skills.
- Strong leadership presence with the ability to influence without authority across diverse teams.
- High attention to detail and ability to manage competing priorities under tight deadlines.
- Analytical approach with the ability to assess trade-offs and make data-informed decisions.
- Comfortable navigating ambiguity and driving clarity in complex, cross-functional environments.
- Proactive problem-solver with a continuous improvement approach.
- Culturally aware and effective in a global, matrixed organization.
- Proficient in English; Spanish proficiency strongly preferred.
Our Culture & Commitment to You
At Emerson, we prioritize a workplace where every employee is valued, respected, and empowered to grow. We foster an environment that encourages innovation, collaboration, and diverse perspectives—because we know that great ideas come from great teams. Our commitment to ongoing career development and growing an inclusive culture ensures you have the support to thrive. Whether through mentorship, training, or leadership opportunities, we invest in your success so you can make a lasting impact. We believe diverse teams, working together are key to driving growth and delivering business results.
We recognize the importance of employee wellbeing. We prioritize providing competitive benefits plans, a variety of medical insurance plans, Employee Assistance Program, employee resource groups, recognition, and much more. Our culture offers flexible time off plans, vacation and holiday leave.
About UsWHY EMERSON
Our Commitment to Our People
At Emerson, we are motivated by a spirit of collaboration that helps our diverse, multicultural teams across the world drive innovation that makes the world healthier, safer, smarter, and more sustainable. And we want you to join us in our bold aspiration.
We have built an engaged community of inquisitive, dedicated people who thrive knowing they are welcomed, trusted, celebrated, and empowered to solve the world’s most complex problems — for our customers, our communities, and the planet. You’ll contribute to this vital work while further developing your skills through our award-winning employee development programs. We are a proud corporate citizen in every city where we operate and are committed to our people, our communities, and the world at large. We take this responsibility seriously and strive to make a positive impact through every endeavor.
At Emerson, you’ll see firsthand that our people are at the center of everything we do. So, let’s go. Let’s think differently. Learn, collaborate, and grow. Seek opportunity. Push boundaries. Be empowered to make things better. Speed up to break through. Let’s go, together.
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ABOUT EMERSON
Emerson is a global leader in automation technology and software. Through our deep domain expertise and legacy of flawless execution, Emerson helps customers in critical industries like life sciences, energy, power and renewables, chemical and advanced factory automation operate more sustainably while improving productivity, energy security and reliability.
With global operations and a comprehensive portfolio of software and technology, we are helping companies implement digital transformation to measurably improve their operations, conserve valuable resources and enhance their safety.
We offer equitable opportunities, celebrate diversity, and embrace challenges with confidence that, together, we can make an impact across a broad spectrum of countries and industries. Whether you’re an established professional looking for a career change, an undergraduate student exploring possibilities, or a recent graduate with an advanced degree, you’ll find your chance to make a difference with Emerson. Join our team – let’s go!
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Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Business, or related field
- Master's degree or equivalent experience
- Over 5 years of project or program management experience in services, engineering, or technology
- Proven experience leading cross-functional teams without direct authority
- Strong understanding of post-sales services (service delivery, field services, service engineering, customer support operations)
- Excellent organizational, communication, and collaborator management skills
- Experience with project management methodologies (Agile, Waterfall, or hybrid)
- Experience with reporting and visualization tools such as Power BI
- PMP, PMI-ACP, or similar certification
- Willingness to work hybrid in Escazu, Costa Rica or Mexico City office
- Analytical, change-management, and continuous-improvement mindset (preferred qualifications listed)
- Proficient in English; Spanish proficiency strongly preferred
Emerson Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Emerson and has not been reviewed or approved by Emerson.
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Retirement Support — Retirement programs have been strengthened with a 401(k) plus company-supported contributions such as profit sharing and a recent cash-balance transition for certain participants. These features are positioned as differentiators among large industrial peers.
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Equity Value & Accessibility — An employee stock purchase plan introduced in 2026 enables discounted share purchases via payroll deductions. This adds an accessible ownership element to the total rewards mix.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — The package includes PTO, holidays, sick leave, and parental leave within a broad benefits suite. Coverage breadth aligns with large-employer norms across locations, though specifics vary.
Emerson Insights
What We Do
At Emerson, we’re passionate about what we do. By fusing decades of technology and engineering expertise, Emerson continues to solve some of the world’s most complex challenges with innovative solutions for customers in industrial, commercial, and residential markets. We recruit the greatest talent and apply the best technologies to benefit our customers worldwide. Automation Solutions is a leader in helping process and discrete manufacturers automate and optimize production processes through our best-in-class technologies and industry expertise. Commercial & Residential Solutions develops technologies and services that improve human comfort, safeguard food, protect the environment, enable sustainable food waste disposal, and support efficient construction and maintenance of buildings and municipal infrastructure. Emerson has a wide range of industry knowledge, manufacturing expertise, and technological innovation around the world. Join our next generation of leaders today.









