Sr. Project Leader – New Product Development (NPD)

Techtronic Industries - TTI•Anderson, SC

About The Position

The Senior Project Leader is accountable for delivering high-complexity, high-priority new product development (NPD) programs for outdoor power equipment (OPE). The role sets project direction, aligns senior cross-functional stakeholders, and drives execution through ambiguity while owning product performance, cost, quality, schedule, and risk. The leader anticipates organizational and technical barriers, creates decision-ready paths forward, and coaches others in disciplined project leadership. The position leads programs with broad technical scope, significant investment, aggressive timing, or elevated business risk. It owns project scope convergence and maintains alignment among product strategy, user needs, critical-to-quality requirements, the business case, and the execution plan. It establishes an operating rhythm for resources, functions, and global teams; anticipates and mitigates risks; and independently drives milestones and metrics across multiple projects or a major strategic program. The Senior Project Leader is accountable for closing gaps to product cost, tooling, capital, margin, performance, quality, compliance, supplier readiness, and launch targets. The role guides investment and risk decisions using technical evidence, user impact, financial analysis, and schedule implications; ensures manufacturing and supplier strategies are capable and scalable; and sponsors root-cause, recovery, and corrective-action efforts when major issues threaten a program. It also builds senior-level alignment, communicates complex topics clearly to executive audiences, coaches Project Engineers and Project Leaders, and strengthens project leadership processes, standards, tools, and organizational learning. Travel is up to 15%, both international and domestic.

Requirements

Bachelor of Science in an engineering discipline or a closely related technical field.
Minimum 8 years of relevant engineering, product development, manufacturing, or technical project leadership experience.
Demonstrated success leading high-complexity or high-priority products through global development and launch.
Advanced ability to lead cross-functional teams, influence senior leaders, resolve complex trade-offs, and maintain accountability.
Strong business acumen, including product cost, investment, margin, risk, and portfolio implications.
Strong technical judgment across design, validation, manufacturing, quality, compliance, and supplier development.

Nice To Haves

10 years of relevant engineering, product development, manufacturing, or technical project leadership experience is preferred.
Experience with outdoor power equipment, power tools, consumer products, battery systems, or complex electromechanical platforms.
Experience leading multi-product platforms, major supplier transitions, or programs with significant tooling and capital investment.
Formal project management, systems engineering, Six Sigma, or related training.
Demonstrated experience developing project leadership capability in others.

Responsibilities

Lead high-complexity programs with broad technical scope, significant investment, aggressive timing, or elevated business risk.
Own project scope convergence and maintain alignment among product strategy, user needs, CTQs, business case, and execution plan.
Influence senior stakeholders to resolve complex trade-offs and secure timely decisions, resources, and priorities.
Anticipate how project decisions affect adjacent products, platforms, suppliers, operations, and future business needs.
Establish an operating rhythm that aligns resources, functions, and global teams around critical outcomes.
Anticipate risks and drive mitigation, contingency, and recovery plans.
Lead teams through uncertainty and changing priorities while sustaining momentum and accountability.
Escalate with clear facts, business impact, options, recommendations, and required decisions.
Drive milestone and metric success across multiple projects or a major strategic program.
Own closure of gaps to product cost, tooling, capital, margin, performance, quality, compliance, supplier readiness, and launch targets.
Guide investment and risk decisions using technical evidence, user impact, financial analysis, and schedule implications.
Ensure manufacturing and supplier strategies are capable, scalable, and aligned to quality and volume requirements.
Sponsor complex root-cause, recovery, and corrective-action efforts when major issues threaten the program.
Build senior-level alignment across business units, functions, and global organizations.
Communicate complex technical and business topics to executive audiences without hiding risk or overstating confidence.
Coach Project Engineers and Project Leaders in scope convergence, planning, risk, escalation, and executive communication.
Strengthen project leadership processes, standards, tools, and organizational learning.