Program Manager

at  Dorel Juvenile Group

Are you passionate about leading product development projects, ensuring new products are delivered on time and within specification and budget through the right processes? Do you want to be part of a team that leads our strategic product developments and innovations? Join our Product team as a Program Manager NPD for our Maxi-Cosi car seat category and help bring our next innovations in child safety to new parents!

• Manage the project portfolio based on brand and company requirements.
• Structure the complex strategic projects and draft the associated plans and documents.
• Define the role and the responsibilities of each participant in the projects to make optimum use of skills and capacities.
• Bring a helicopter-view of the available resources on the projects in your category to ensure reaching our project goals, while being flexible and creative to achieve the best profitability and efficiency.
• Lead the project teams, and monitor schedules, milestones, budgets and process.
• Ensure the proper use of project support tools.
• Consolidate the reporting of project activities and communicate relevant information to the partners in the monitoring committees.
• In the case of strategic choices during the project, initiate and develop clear options and scenarios, helping the specialists to make the right decisions.
• Actively participate in the continuous improvement of project management within the organization.
• Coordinate definition of new initiatives and project scopes to improve the profitability in terms of NPD (New Product Development) on the car seat product category.