Position overview

This position will be responsible for managing and coordinating strategic projects in North America. These initiatives and projects include, but are not limited to corporate strategy development, implementation, and market coordination with internal and external teams and business partners. Within the scope of these initiatives, this position will collaborate with stakeholders at PCNA, PCL and PAG within the sales, marketing, finance, business development departments and others as required. This position will also serve as an extension and advisory to the CEO's office and broader Executive Committee.

Roles & responsilbilities

• Strategy development based on current industry trends and integration of headquarter initiatives into the PCNA project landscape
• Lead PCNA Project Management Office and continuously seek to optimize the process
• Develop business cases and plans for new concepts and ideas
• Manage project schedules, project budgets, and project deliverables independently
• Communicate strategy across the organization and foster inter-departmental information exchange and collaboration on strategic projects
• Responsible for the creation and integration of business processes that ensure the effective exploitation of future profit pool opportunities within the appropriate departments
• Coordinate regular market development and planning activities across PCNA, PCL and PAG, which includes but is not limited to volume planning
• Act as a key advisory to PCNA President and CEO and the members of the Executive Committee and key point of contact for PAG representatives to communicate executive decisions with regards to regional and market-related initiatives

Required qualifications include:

• Bachelors' degree in International Business, Engineering, Marketing/Sales, Finance or equivalent required
• 5+ years professional experience with a leading industrial corporation or leading consultancy
• 1-2 years of project management experience with a track record of successfully implemented projects
• Experience in developing fact and figure driven decision recommendations for Executive/Senior level management
• Advanced experience in managing complex, large scale projects
• Ability to manage large scale projects and communicate effectively with stakeholders from various organizational and cultural backgrounds
• Ability to think entrepreneurial and thrive with a varying level of ambiguity and uncertainty
• Ability to creatively solve business problems and motivate others to collaboratively find solutions
• Ability to work with a high degree of detail orientation, and accuracy and prioritize tasks in high pressure performance environment
• Ability to self-motivate in pursuit of continuous personal and professional improvement

Preferred qualifications include:

• Graduate degree or MBA
• International experience with exposure to C-suite level
• Experience in the Automotive Industry
• Foreign language (German)

Physical requirements:

• While performing the duties of this job the employee is required to talk, hear, walk, sit, stand, climb stairs on occasion with prolonged periods of sitting at a desk and working on a computer.
• Must be able to lift 15 pounds at times.

Direct reports:

• None