Associate Manager, Project Management - Air Care

SC Johnson•Racine, WI

7d•Hybrid

About The Position

Join SC Johnson's International Consumer Brands Air Care team as an Associate Manager, Global Project Management, and play a key role in bringing innovative products to market. In this highly collaborative position, you will lead cross-functional teams through the End-to-End New Product Development process, ensuring projects are delivered on time, aligned to business objectives, and positioned for successful commercialization. As a project leader, you will drive alignment across functions, manage project timelines and risks, facilitate decision-making, and ensure execution against key milestones. Working with global and regional stakeholders, you will proactively navigate challenges, lead trade-off discussions, and help teams deliver innovative solutions that meet consumer and business needs. This is an opportunity to make a meaningful impact on SC Johnson's Air Care portfolio by combining strategic thinking, collaboration, and executional excellence to bring innovation to life.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in a technical discipline and 5+ years of experience in development and commercialization of consumer product goods, or a master’s degree with at least 3+ years relevant work experience
Qualified candidates must be legally authorized to work in the United States without the need for current or future sponsorship for full-time employment.

Nice To Haves

Proven track record working with design and manufacturing partners outside the organization
Ability to create and utilize development methods and tools, such as DOEs, to solve technical problems and deliver claims
Technical breadth and depth in product development and commercialization, global products experience, technology trends, competitive and IP landscape, systems, analytical test methods, sustainability, and leveraging external technologies
Self-driven, results-oriented with a clear focus on high quality and timely delivery of objectives
Natural forward planner who critically assesses own performance and is reliable, tolerant, determined, and empathic communicator
Excellent communicator with track record of presenting ideas with courage and conviction
Previous demonstrated excellence in Project Management
Experience leading front-end Innovation projects and programs
Previous experience working with international team members and partners

Responsibilities

Lead cross functional project teams from Ideation through Launch for a wide range of project types (Expand Innovation, Adjacent, Core, and Portfolio Management)
Leverage business acumen to understand market and category dynamics to optimize business results; Demonstrate SCJ Success Drivers and establish a “Mindset to Win” Culture
Execute the technical plan and coordinates activities of functional team members to execute validation test plans that will meet commitments of key technical deliverables
Influence others to drive project progress in functional area
Model strong R&D functional skills, including appropriate skills in effective communication, financial acumen, integrated risk management, project management, quality, robustness, regulation & safety, scientific rigor, and technical curiosity
Demonstrate the ability to pivot between working with a front-end team operating in ambiguity and operating in execution
Apply rigorous timeline and risk management practices to effectively manage technical and timeline risks
Apply root cause analysis and problem-solving skills to identify the most critical factors that impact successful project implementation
Draw on scientific and functional expertise to enable successful development and commercialization
Provide consistent communication with cross-functional team and internal stakeholders
Participate in the Project Management Community of Practice