Senior Project Manager at Essity North America Inc. in Manchester, Connecticut

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Senior Project Manager

Who We Are

Essity is a global leader in health and hygiene headquartered in Stockholm, Sweden, and North American headquarters in Philadelphia, PA. We are a multi-billion-dollar company that is committed to breaking barriers to well-being through innovation in Professional Hygiene, Consumer Goods, and Health & Medical Solutions.

Working at Essity is not just a career, it’s where you’ll play your part in a better future, making the world a healthier, more hygienic, and safer place. With impactful innovations coupled with sustainable solutions, we strive to reach more people every year with the necessary and essential solutions for well-being. At Essity, there’s shared belonging and individual growth. Our culture grows with you.

At Essity: This Is What We Do

About the Role

Essity Health and Medical Solutions is currently seeking a Senior Project Manager to be based in our facility in Manchester, CT.

The Senior Project Manager is responsible for planning and executing strategically important projects from idea through completion within Essity. The Senior Project Manager is managing large and complex and/or international projects that affect the Health and Medical organization. The role is responsible for managing projects in line with predefined budget, timeline and quality criteria.

We're looking for people who embody our values, aren't afraid to challenge, innovate, experiment, and move at a fast pace. We're always looking for ways to improve our products and ourselves. If this is you, we'd love to talk. 
 

What You Will Do

• Planning of project with cross functional team. Project team set up and resources allocation;


• Approval of project budget and resources. Alignment of project deliverables, quality requirements and success criteria;


• Execution of strategically important projects;


• Secure required resources and use formal processes and tools to manage resources, budget, risk and chance within allocated projects;


• Bring excellence in leadership, competence, experience and project tools enabling successful completion of complex and important projects;


• Ensure effective communication to stakeholders. Constantly update project team, Steerco and stakeholders on changes. Get required approvals;


• Manage functional and site resources allocation to the projects, Identify and address bottlenecks;


• Make sure that project and initiatives are executed based on existing project management and functional standards and best practices;


• Secures application of standards within the plant;


• Drives and executes together with local stakeholders’ actions to optimize product/material/equipment utilization for respective projects;


• Support preparation of budget updates and forecast for projects as well as actuals tracking;


• Leads, coaches and trains project members according to pre-defined methods and standards;


• Drives the continuous improvement approach in the initiatives and projects execution;


• Manage Project Capex TG approvals for projects;


• Maintain project management system.

Who You Are

• Minimum 5 years’ experience in project management and product supply;


• Leadership, facilitating and influencing skills, project management, ability to work across boundaries, holistic thinking and business understanding, value creation, can do attitude, results focus;


• Strong project management, CAPEX management experience;


• Strong leadership and direct people management experience;


• Senior stakeholder management experience (i.e. site managers, cross functional global directors, VPs) and business acumen;


• Experience in transfer and technology implementation initiatives as well as continuous improvement projects;


• Entrepreneur mindset able to take the lead and support business growth strategies/plans with minimum guidance;


• Experience to lead cross-functional teams and able to lead cross functional teams without having direct authority;


• Good knowledge of English language both written and spoken;


• Spanish knowledge is a plus;


• Engineering and technical skills, experience as process/operations/start up leader of advantage.

What We Can Offer You

Our purpose, Breaking Barriers to Well-being, provides meaning to everything we do. Working at Essity means a chance to improve well-being for people and opportunities to drive positive change for the society and the environment. As an employee at Essity, you will belong to an organization where you feel valued and supported to grow, and challenged to generate business results in a collaborative and open atmosphere. Innovate for Good  |  Excel Together |  Be You with Us

Compensation and Benefits:

Expected Compensation:

Competitive annual salary + annual incentive bonus + benefits.

Pay offered may vary depending on multiple individualized factors such as knowledge, skills, and experience.

Along with competitive pay you will be eligible for the following benefits:

• United Healthcare PPO / EyeMed Vision Insurance / Delta Dental Insurance;


• Wellness program provided through Rally;


• Healthcare and Dependent Care Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA);


• 401(k) with employer match and annual employer base contribution;


• Company paid Basic Life, AD&D, short-term and long-term disability insurance;


• Employee Assistance Program;


• PTO offering with Paid Holidays;


• Voluntary benefits to include: critical illness, hospital indemnity, and accident insurance;


• Employee discounts program;


• Scholarship program for children of Essity employees. 

About Our DEI Culture

Guided by our Beliefs & Behavior, our culture is the foundation that connects our history with our future. At Essity, care, collaboration and inclusion are more than buzzwords, they are practiced on an everyday basis. And with a purpose of breaking barriers to wellbeing, promoting gender equality and enable customers and consumers to lead a fuller life at all stages of life, DEI is in our core.

As we work in diverse teams across geographies, cultures and professional areas, inclusive leadership is something we expect from ourselves and each other. In our leadership platform, we express this as leveraging the power of differences. From experience we know that diverse and inclusive teams are key to innovate and profitably grow our business while simultaneously address our ambitious climate targets.

Collaborative and Caring Culture | Empowerment & Engaged People | Work with Impact and A Powerful Purpose | Individual Learning & Career Growth | Health & Safety Priority | Sustainable Value Together| Innovation| Sustainable Working Life | Competitive Total Rewards

Additional Information

The Company is committed to equal employment opportunity and providing reasonable accommodations to qualified candidates and employees pursuant to applicable law. We value and encourage diversity and solicit applications from all qualified applicants without regard to race, color, gender, sex, age, religion, creed, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, marital status, sexual orientation, physical or mental disability, medical condition, military and veteran status, gender identity or expression, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local law.

If you require reasonable accommodation as part of the application process please contact EssityHRNorthAmerica@essity.com

Together, we are improving lives, every day

Working at Essity is not just a career; it is a chance to directly make the world a healthier, more hygienic and safer place. With impactful innovations coupled with sustainable solutions, we strive to reach more people every year with the necessary and essential solutions for well-being.

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