What are the responsibilities and job description for the Programs Manager position at Silgan?
About:
Silgan Dispensing is a global manufacturer of packaging solutions that help brands enhance lives. Our broad portfolio of trigger sprayers, pumps, fine mist sprayers, and closures are used by iconic brands for personal care, beauty, fragrance, home, garden, and healthcare markets.
Headquartered in Richmond, Virginia, the Silgan Dispensing team includes approximately 6,000 employees across North America, South America, Asia, and Europe. We are proud to have created a diverse workforce that is innovative, sustainably focused, respectful, inclusive, driven to excel and customer-oriented — held together by the belief that we are best when we work as One Team.
Our culture of engagement, collaboration and accountability is what enables us to be the dispensing partner brands rely on to grow their business.
Responsibilities:
- Act as key point of contact and support sales from RFQ to commercialization on Customer account projects.
- Ensure site coordination and manage assigned projects according to Quality / Time to Market / quantity / cost projects objectives for (P0 /P1/P2/P3)
- Manage directly strategic / Critical projects
- Manage directly assigned New Product Innovation Projects.
- Manage the project team, secure task planning, coordinate day-to-day activities, guide the project team members, get their commitment and monitor progress against deadlines.
- Control the project both from a timing, financial and quality perspective; managing the resources provided to meet project objectives and –targets in order to deliver sustainability in the choice for product, process and supplies.
- Reports monthly and during the project steering committees the status of the projects.
- Define actions with the appropriate Department Manager if a assigned member of the project team does not respect his commitments.
- Support technically the Marketing or the Sales for the promotion of the new products.
- Ensure timely and documented Gate reviews and is guarantor of the NPD Process application
Job Requirements:
What You Need to Succeed:
- Master or Bachelor’s Engineering degree in Project management or Mechanical / Plastics / Packaging
- 3 to 5 year experience in a similar function as product development projects manager for fmcg products and plastic injection technology (Pharmaceutical, Cosmetics, Electronics, Plastic injection suppliers & industries)
- Fluent in English with exposure to international cultures and teams is a plus
- Proficiency using business/technical software like MS Excel, MS Project, MS Powerpoint
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills a must