Senior Agile Project Manager
About The Position
Schneider Electric Power Products North America is seeking a Senior Agile Project Manager to lead high-impact R&D and offer creation projects that shape the future of our power distribution portfolio. In this role, you will drive cross-functional collaboration across engineering, supply chain, manufacturing, marketing, and quality to deliver innovative, competitive, and customer-focused offerings. You will own projects end-to-end, from concept through launch, balancing speed, quality, cost, and business value in a dynamic, matrixed environment. This is an exciting opportunity to influence product strategy and accelerate time-to-market for solutions that power a more sustainable future.
Requirements
- 7+ years of project management experience, with a proven track record leading complex, cross-functional projects; experience in R&D, new product development, or offer creation strongly preferred
- Solid knowledge of project management principles and methodologies (PMI/PMP, Agile, Waterfall, or hybrid approaches)
- Demonstrated ability to manage scope, schedule, cost, quality, and resources in a matrix organization
- Strong leadership, influence, and collaboration skills, with the ability to challenge teams constructively and drive accountability
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, including comfort presenting to senior leadership
- High level of problem-solving ability, commercial awareness, and comfort navigating ambiguity
- Proficiency with common project tools (e.g., MS Project or similar scheduling tools, MS Office, collaboration platforms)
- Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Business, Supply Chain, or a related field (Master’s degree a plus)
- PMP or equivalent certification is a strong plus
Responsibilities
- Lead and manage R&D / offer creation projects from initiation through commercialization, ensuring alignment to business strategy, customer needs, quality standards, cost targets, and time-to-market objectives
- Partner closely with Engineering, Product Management, Supply Chain, Manufacturing, Quality, Marketing, and Global teams to define project scope, objectives, deliverables, and execution plans
- Develop and maintain comprehensive project plans, including schedules, resource plans, budgets, risk registers, and success metrics
- Drive disciplined project execution using project management methodologies (Waterfall, Agile, or hybrid), ensuring clear governance, change control, and decision-making processes
- Identify, assess, and proactively mitigate project risks and issues, implementing corrective actions and escalating when needed
- Ensure strong stakeholder communication, including regular project reviews, status reporting, milestone tracking, and executive updates
- Monitor and improve project performance through KPIs, lessons learned, and continuous improvement practices
- Support offer readiness and launch activities, ensuring alignment across technical, operational, and commercial teams
Benefits
- medical (with member reward points)
- dental
- vision
- basic life insurance
- Benefit Bucks (credits to apply towards your benefits)
- flexible work arrangements
- paid family leaves
- 401(k) + match
- well-being and recognition (including service anniversary) programs
- 12 holidays per year
- 15 days of paid time off per year (pro-rated in the first year of employment based on start date)
- opportunity to purchase company stock (eligibility depends on start date)
- military leave benefits
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
