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Polaris Industries Project Manager in Elkhart, Indiana
The Project Manager will require excellent organizational skill as well as the ability to manage multiple projects, while paying close attention to detail. The position will require excellent project management skills leveraging cross functional teams throughout the product life cycle. The role will optimize performance across multiple brands driving efficiencies that obtain the Company’s strategic objectives.
Collaborate with a cross-functional project teams utilizing internal and external resources to implement projects and ensure goals are being met by prioritizing, monitoring and executing workflows
Proactively escalate and inform of all project lifecycle projects by tracking and reporting on tollgates, deliverables, derailers, deadlines, resource staffing, and other issues to facilitate joint problem solving
Prepare product scopes on multiple projects while simultaneously working closely with the brand managers and industrial design team to ensure new products meet and exceed the expectations of our customer
Assists the General Manager to ensure product margins meet/exceed Company objectives
Help facilitate financial and technical justification for product selection, collaborate on design direction and final product verifications
Prepare product development objectives and coordinate all phases of product development life cycle through introduction to market
Collaborates with a wide variety of functional areas such as Sales, Marketing, Finance, Brand Management, Product Development, Industrial Design, Engineering, and Operations to develop and provide product support responsive to customer needs and market opportunities
Bachelor's degree (B.A.) from four-year college/university or experience in project management, sales, or marketing
The individual must have the ability to adapt and work in an ever-changing work
Excellent communication and project management experience
Ability to understand and make decisions based on market research and financial/technical analysis of emerging markets, consumer wants and product need
Prior experience in the Marine Industry is a plus but not required
Ability to work with complex cross functional teams
Equal Opportunity Employer Minorities/Women/Protected Veterans/Disabled