Project Manager, Coevorden

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About the company

Spectrum Brands is a home essentials company trusted by millions of consumers all over the world. The company’s brands improve the way people live life at home - from making their meals, looking their best and caring for their pets to and cleaning their homes and freeing their space from unwanted weeds and pests.

Building on Spectrum Brands’ long legacy of products from trusted brands such as Iams®, Eukanuba®, Good Boy®, Tetra®, Russell Hobbs®, Remington®, Cutter®, and Spectracide®, the company delivers high-quality, reliable products.

Spectrum Brands strives to use consumer insights to fuel innovation. The company’s long-trusted brands provide the newest solutions to improve the way people live life at home, ultimately exciting consumers. Because Spectrum Brands is structured for growth and efficiency, the company can serve more consumers, customers and stakeholders around the world every year.

Spectrum Brands is led by its values of trust, accountability and collaboration to serve others through this common mission:“Making a life better at Home”.

Main purpose of the job

The Project Manager is the person responsible for co-ordinating a project from its idea to execution. PMO is responsible for the following project types:

New Product Launch (NPD) Exisiting Product Launch (EPD) Artwork Marketing Materials (displays, POS materials, promotions and customisation)

Main focus will be on Artwork rollout with giving support on NPD&EPD projects. Key focus will be on our Dog&Cat Food Nutrition products.

Responsibilities

Deliver Projects Project schedule owner– creates schedule and highlight in advance capacity issues. Provides leadership to ensure all activities are synchronized and integrated with other project activities/milestones Leads multi-functional team meetings to track progress and resolve and/or escalate issues for decisionsEnsures the timely communication of information externally (supplier, repro agency, design agency, art studio etc) and internally.

PMO Information Systems Prefers to have knowledge of Workfront, Patex, Smartling and Prisma and uses these tools appropriately to deliver projects. If applicable, own systems and be able to train others in them. Collaborates and/or leads system improvement projects.

Standard Work Process Follows PMO standard work processes. Suggests ways to simplify processes, reduce rework, reduce cost or otherwise improve systems. Leads implementation of improvement where appropriate.

Knowledge and Skills

Leadership / direction: Must be a team player with good collaboration and influencing skills. Acts as business owner with operational discipline and focuses on priorities. Ownership/accountability and“CAN DO” attitude is a must. Works autonomously and can manage decisions as well as escalate accordingly.Strong organisational skills and can work in a structured way.

Communication: In Dutch and English, written and spoken Can lead meetings and has good writing skills to provide clear direction to others, communicate with other functions and external suppliers.

Technical expertise: Knowledge of Microsoft Office (Mainly Word&Excel), SAP/S4 and PMO systems (Workfront, Patex, Smartling and Prisma)

Other Information

Sometimes travel to our office in Melle (Germany). On average once/twice a month. Driving license (B) required