Description:
Are you ready to make a significant impact and play a pivotal role in driving success for a global leader? As the Global Finished Product Portfolio Manager, you will be at the forefront of meeting stakeholder and customer needs on high-value engineering and capital projects. Your expertise will directly influence our ability to serve customers and markets, ensuring that we maintain our competitive edge and financial performance.
In this dynamic position, you will have the opportunity to collaborate with global leadership teams and stakeholders to identify and prioritize high-value strategic projects. By bringing objective decision-making and consensus building, you will help shape our global finished product portfolio, aligning it with company objectives and other processes. Your strategic mindset and technical acumen will be key in evaluating project viability and resource availability to drive efficient project execution.
Your role as a Global Finished Product Portfolio Manager will involve active stakeholder engagement, working closely with teams to define process objectives and prioritize initiatives. You will be responsible for assessing and monitoring the health and value of the portfolio, continuously improving performance through the application of key performance indicators (KPIs) and a data-driven analytical approach.
Also, you will:
- Strategically manage the global Finished Product process portfolio, aligning it with other processes, regional leads, and company objectives.
- Make objective decisions and facilitate consensus based on strategic priority, technical viability, and resource availability.
- Drive active stakeholder engagement to define process objectives, criteria for prioritizing initiatives, and project success criteria.
- Assess and monitor the health and value of the portfolio, identifying areas for improvement and optimization.
- Coordinate efficient, disciplined, and structured communication across multiple initiatives and projects with stakeholders.
- Develop and apply key performance indicators (KPIs) and analytical approaches to meet and enhance objectives.
- Identify cross-project dependencies and foster collaboration with other process departments within Global Technology.
- Develop, implement, and manage global process-specific estimating tools for capital expenditure (CapEx) and resource loading. Serve as a liaison between regional process leads and the strategy, ensuring consistent use and gathering feedback for tool development.
- Actively engage in the global engineering council to drive cross-process and regional collaboration and ensure successful execution of the technology portfolio.
- Identify staffing and contracting gaps and work with regional process managers to develop immediate and long-term strategies.
- Establish criteria and processes for managing the process-specific capital Asset Acquisition and Projects (AAP) portfolio, as well as non-AAP project activities, including plant audits, pilots, technology investigations, supplier audits, engineering fundamentals, and procurement TSC activities.
- Collaborate with the FP strategy team to introduce new technologies to the glass industry or O-I manufacturing operations, following a disciplined change management process.
- Champion change management for the FP team, with a specific focus on larger automation projects (>3M$).
- Facilitate regular interaction between the team, suppliers to ensure effective tracking and management of projects.
- Lead projects within the Finished Product portfolio assigned based on the needs of the FP team, often involving cross-functional collaboration with other departments (e.g., tag application, remote connections).