[Hiring] Senior Manager Technical Project Management @Nestle Operational Services Worldwide SA

Role Description

The Senior Manager, Technical Project Management, provides strategic leadership for the successful delivery of complex, cross-functional technical projects across innovation, renovation, business maintenance, total delivered cost, supply continuity, compliance, and other business-critical initiatives. This role is accountable for ensuring projects are effectively prioritized, resourced, governed, and executed from initiation through launch and closure, while meeting defined key success criteria and business objectives.

The Senior Manager leads cross-functional project teams and a team of direct reports, providing direction, and development to strengthen project leadership capabilities and ensure consistent, high-quality execution. The role proactively manages portfolio priorities, resource capacity, risks, dependencies, and competing business needs to focus resources on the highest-impact work and protect delivery of strategic commitments.

In addition, the Senior Manager leads project and portfolio governance processes, ensuring projects are appropriately scoped, decision-ready, prioritized, and supported by clear ownership and accountability. The role drives continuous improvement of project management processes, tools, systems, and ways of working to increase efficiency, strengthen data integrity, improve portfolio visibility, and enable timely, informed business decisions.

The Senior Manager serves as a strategic partner to technical, commercial, operational, and business leadership by providing clear portfolio insights, escalating critical risks, recommending mitigation strategies, and promoting alignment across functions. This role also supports organizational capability building by establishing standards, sharing best practices, strengthening project management competencies, and creating scalable processes that support the organization’s current and future growth.

This is a remote based role, which can be performed from anywhere in the US.

Job Duties/Responsibilities

• Oversee complex, cross-functional projects from concept through launch and closure, ensuring delivery on time, within scope, and at the required quality.
• Align stakeholders on project strategy, scope, key success criteria, resources, risks, and execution plans.
• Monitor schedules, critical paths, budgets, dependencies, and portfolio health.
• Proactively address risks and escalate critical issues to protect business outcomes.
• Directly lead selected strategic, complex, or high-risk projects.

• Lead, coach, and develop direct reports to strengthen performance and project management capabilities.
• Assign resources based on business priorities, workload, project complexity, and development needs.
• Build succession and coverage plans to support business continuity.
• Foster accountability, collaboration, knowledge sharing, and continuous learning.

• Lead project and portfolio governance, ensuring projects are decision-ready, prioritized, and aligned with business strategy.
• Manage capacity planning and resource allocation across active and pipeline projects.
• Recommend project prioritization, sequencing, pausing, or cancellation based on value, readiness, and available capacity.
• Provide leadership with clear portfolio insights, risks, tradeoffs, and recommendations.

• Ensure consistent application and continuous improvement of project management processes, tools, and governance standards.
• Maintain portfolio data accuracy, documentation, and performance measures.
• Simplify and standardize processes to improve speed, efficiency, and execution.
• Clarify cross-functional roles, responsibilities, decision rights, and handoffs.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree required.
• Project management professional certification or an advanced degree in project management is preferred.

Requirements

• Minimum of 10 years of relevant cross-functional experience in areas such as Technical Applications, Research and Development, Operations, Supply Chain, Procurement, Quality Assurance, Contract Manufacturing, Engineering, or Manufacturing.
• Minimum of 8 years of project management experience leading complex initiatives in new product development, life sciences, engineering, or capital projects.
• Previous people-management experience is preferred.

Benefits

• Performance-based incentives and a competitive total rewards package.
• 401k with company match.
• Healthcare coverage and a broad range of other benefits.