Manager Product Delivery, Product Development

The team you will be a part of

WHIRLPOOL CORPORATION

• #1 Fortune 500 Company in Consumer Durable category

  • No 1 in North America(NAR), Latin America(LAR)

  • No 1 western company in Asia 

• Annual sales turnover of $21 billion

• 70 manufacturing & Technology centers around the Globe

  • 3 Manufacturing Locations in India

BEST EMPLOYER AWARD

We believe that our people make us a great place to work, reflected in the awards we have received consistently over the years

This role in summary

Responsible for complete product portfolio management of Refrigeration category both at strategic & tactical level.

Your responsibilities will include

• Manages cross-functional teams to deliver new product development projects in regional and/or global scale, taking projects from original concept, till final implementation and project release.

• Takes ownership for project delivery results, Influencing cross-functionally to ensure smooth transition of projects to business owners.

• Deeply understands and manages all processes and tools of WPD, being a reference inside the organization related to the product development system.

• Responsible for managing the project in the perspective of all knowledge areas: Project Integration, Scope, Time, Cost, Quality, Human Resources, Communications, Risk, Procurement, Stakeholder Management.

• Leads the project team in all projects phases, since Initiation, passing through Planning, Control & Monitoring, Execution and Closure.

• Collect project requirements from all stakeholders, managing trade-offs to meet project goals.

• Properly use all the tools and processes defined by WPD and PLO.

• Project leader is the voice of the project, the central point of contact that conducts project meetings, integration events, status reports and gate approvals in all levels of the organization.

• Manages risks, developing plans to avoid, mitigate, transfer, accept or explore them along with the project team.

• Manages changes guiding the team to request, analyze impact and probability, and make the go/no go decisions on change.

• Registers, understands expectations, influences, reports project performance, collects and manages requirements of stakeholders.

Minimum requirements

Preferred skills and experiences

• Delivery of new product development projects approved in the platform planning phase.

• Recommendation for all gate approvals.

• Delivery of project KPIs.

• Embedment Project Management and WPD (Whirlpool Product Development) system tools, techniques and practices in the PLO (Project Leadership Office) community and project teams.

Preferred skills and experiences

• Stakeholder Management, Conflict management, Cross functional collaboration, Cross functional leadership, Risk management, Problem solving, Budgeting, Communication, Ability to deal with ambiguity