Director ISC Proj Management

As a Director ISC Project Management, you will have a transformative impact on our business. You will drive operational efficiency, optimize decision-making, and unlock valuable insights within the Integrated Supply Chain (ISC) organization by leading high impact / high complexity projects, from strategy development to full execution. Your strategic vision and guidance will shape the development and implementation of advanced analytics models and tools, enabling us to stay ahead of the competition.

This Director role will be located in Juarez, Mexico and will need to have flexibility to work out of any of the four manufacturing facilities within the city.  Juarez is a strategic location for manufacturing and will continue to receive many high visibility / high priority ISC footprint and resilience projects. The projects will include but are not limited to manufacturing / DC site repositioning, footprint consolidations, and insourcing and outsourcing projects to meet strategic plan and ISC resilience objectives.  We are looking for a strong leader who can assume a player-coach role, where you will be responsible for managing critical projects as individual contributor, but will have a potential of evolving to a people management role in the future. You will be responsible for leading projects in accordance with Honeywell Technologies’ Standard Transitions Process (STP).

• Develop strategies and execute transformation projects including – Americas ISC Resilience – Insourcing, Outsourcing, Manufacturing localization; ISC Site segmentation and Mfg. Site and DC Transitions.   
• Drive all sending and receiving activities for transformation projects with focus on the Juarez manufacturing sites.
• Deliver projects on budget, on schedule with identified financial benefits.
• Conduct robust due diligence, hidden factory capture and deliver flawless project execution. 
• Translate, generate and implement program plans and business requirements into actionable projects with accurate costs, schedule, and benefits.
• Ensure global use of practical, effective tools and techniques (Standard Transitions Process) to manage the implementation of business transformation projects. 
• Manage project charters/4-blockers risk and mitigation plans, project schedules, project data update in HRP/Accolade systems as per Standard Work, financial targets, costs and savings calculations and methodology, periodic and recurring business reviews, executive leadership briefings, resource planning, change management plans, employee relations plans, roles and responsibilities matrices, stage-gate based implementation methodologies, conflict resolutions plans and service level agreements in order to guarantee success.
• Use Six Sigma and Lean manufacturing principles to implement corrective and improvement actions during the transition process.

Essential Competencies

Project Management: Serve as liaison between leadership, sending and receiving site project team members, and line management, to define and execute project scope and deliver actions on-time and on-budget. Uses Honeywell Technologies’ Standard Transitions Process (STP) and PMI PMP principles to manage projects.  Manages costs and schedule, understands status of a project at any point in time. Effectively escalates risk to schedule and cost to mitigate impact.

Project Complexity: Ability to manage and execute projects across multiple businesses, product lines, and regions. Solving large scale problems with strategies that include multiple projects, multiple workstreams and spans multiple sites or SBG's.

Business and Finance Acumen: Knowledge of and experience with financial data and the overall business portfolio. Financial knowledge to include an understanding of project cost/savings, business P&L, product cost, and gross profit. PM can connect the project to the respective GBE’s STRAP/AOP/Budgets.

Effective Communications Provides timely, clear and concise information to all levels of the organization. Shares complex info succinctly; adapts content and level of detail appropriate for targeted audience. Articulates trade-offs and business case scenarios visually in PowerPoint. Demonstrates a confident and collaborative leadership presence. Courageously addresses challenging topics.

Drives Accountability: Translates plans into actions and leads self and others at all levels of the organization to execute on key deliverables to meet budget and schedule.

People Management Leadership:  As this role may evolve into a people manager role in the future, need to have ability to mentor and coach PMs in their day-to-day activities involving both strategy development and project execution.  Support the PMs in mitigating project risks, issues and escalations.  Be able to stay up to date with key details and status of all projects and be ready to provide project updates to all levels of the organization.   

Influence without Authority Leads key stakeholders in understanding priorities and decisions and effectively addressing business concerns to an appropriate outcome.  Quickly establishes credibility with all stakeholders.  Anticipates viewpoints, concerns, and motivations of others and uses it to impact outcomes/decisions.

Integrative Thinker: Decides and takes action by applying intuition, experience and judgement with information available. Assimilates various and conflicting data or opinions into well considered decisions and recommendations. Consistently makes prudent business decisions even when faced with a high degree of complexity or potential risk. Fully considers pros and cons to ensure that the potential benefits outweigh the risks involved.  Supports taking appropriate risks, while encouraging the consideration and discussion of potential issues.

YOU MUST HAVE

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, business, finance, or other technical/analytical discipline with a minimum of 8 years progressive experience required
• 5+ years of experience independently managing complex and high value projects at an enterprise level or relevant leadership roles that include oversite of projects. This includes defining scope, budget, financial payback, Integrated Project Plans, Action tracking and managing core and steering team.   
• 5+ years of experience developing and delivering presentations to a VP level audience including financial models demonstrating various scenarios, inputs, and potential outcomes that enable strategic decision making
• Willingness to travel up to 25% to various sites through region will be required
• Business acumen
• Proficient in written and spoken English

WE VALUE

• An MBA is preferred but this can be substituted with relevant experience and ability.
• ISC experience required (Manufacturing, Warehousing, Sourcing, SIOP)
• PMP/PMI Project Management Certification 
• Demonstrated leadership skills with the ability to energize cross-functional, global teams, and organizations
• Hands-on person who possesses the best combination of strategic thinking and the drive to achieve tangible business results and Continuous Improvements
• Strong sense of urgency, attention to details and integrative problem-solving skills
• Excellent communication skills/Business acumen (written and verbal) including presentation planning and delivery skills. 
• Advanced expertise in gaining stakeholder alignment.
• Ability to lead and communicate financial analyses to prioritize business decisions. 
• Ability to discern, develop and manage the impact of operating structure decisions on the P&L of the business. 
• Strong ability to lead and influence multi-functional teams without a direct reporting relationship. 
• Ability to deal with ambiguity and align interests of multiple constituents. 
• Model desired behaviors for others to exhibit and influence / motivate others to shift mindset or behaviors. Remove obstacles, cross boundaries and bring resources to the situation. 
• Influence at all levels of the organization to achieve desired outcomes.
• Six Sigma Certification (Green Belt, Black Belt or equivalent)

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