Product Development Project Manager Job Description Template
Our company is looking for a Product Development Project Manager to join our team.
Responsibilities:
- Provides source data for product line communications by defining product marketing communication objectives;
- Maintains product management staff by recruiting, selecting, orienting, and training employees;
- Maintains product management staff job results by counseling and disciplining employees; planning, monitoring, and appraising job results;
- Contributes to team effort by accomplishing related results as needed;
- Accountable for staff and overall output, efficiency and functionality of the product development team;
- Obtains product market share by working with sales director to develop product sales strategies;
- Introduces and markets new products by developing time-integrated plans with sales, advertising, and production;
- Completes operational requirements by scheduling and assigning employees; following up on work results;
- Determines customers’ needs and desires by specifying the research needed to obtain market information;
- Assesses market competition by comparing the company’s product to competitors’ products;
- Coordinating all product development initiatives from start to finish with internal and external suppliers and vendors;
- Understanding timelines and being able to be accountable for timelines;
- Having the ability to take ownership for a project, prioritize effectively and drive the project through to completion.
Requirements:
- Monitor and influence progress of projects to ensure sound application of engineering principles, process adherence, and on-time results;
- Assist in collection of marketing data and convey into business case and project scope;
- Participate in continuous improvement projects for related processes and infrastructure;
- Provide and track project metrics along with project update reports;
- Evaluates/improves the robustness of new products/line extensions through design and/or testing validation;
- Manage team(s) weekly activities to maximize schedule adherence and deliverables quality;
- Facilitate the determination of scope and technical design criteria for the project;
- A consensus building, upbeat team contributor;
- Assist in preparing studies and reports when called upon;
- Actively participate in maintaining positive culture and safe working environment;
- Manage and facilitate projects through a phase-gate process or design control methods;
- May interact with customers to solve reliability issues and/or answer general product questions;
- Self-motivated, high energy that can easily function in a high demand, performance-driven environment;
- Coordinate with other disciplines involved in the project as necessary;
- Receive project lead assignments and obtain a full understanding of scope of the project as well as budget and schedule requirements.