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Drive each Program to defined metrics.\nDevelop and manage the project budget with the team including development expense, capital tooling and expense tooling. Guide the team to develop new products that meet cost targets.\nDevelop and monitor project schedules and adhere to the KBDP process. Manage deliverables and tasks within each phase of a project. Anticipates and manages tasks/risks within each project.\nParticipate in performance expectations and evaluations for cross functional teams. Provide leadership and mentoring to less experienced team members as needed.\nCommunicate to senior management on project status, execution plans, and process.\nDefine and facilitate decision-making process for development teams. Coaches project team personnel to develop and implement cross-functional solutions to complex issues.\nEstablish and maintain relationships with senior management for the purpose of aligning NPD objectives and removing obstacles for project completion.\nDrive improvements in creative problem solving and continually improve the KBDP process and organization. SPECIFIC RESPONSIBILITIES Project Management:\nLead regional and global projects of moderate-to-high complexity, risk and business impact.\nProvide structure and leadership for solving technically complex design and business problems.\nProactively identify and plan for project risks, communicating risk clearly, early and appropriately to management\nManaging your assigned projects' timing and financial adherence to plan. Leadership\nChallenge project teams to achieve innovative solutions.\nWilling and successful in taking moderate risk.\nIdentify opportunities for organizational and process change.\nWork effectively when organizational structure or processes are unclear or conflicting.\nLead brainstorming discussions.\nAble to facilitate resolve conflict and problem solving. Decision-making\nMake decisions with moderate levels of ambiguity.\nChooses appropriate action and alternatives with rationale that is consistent with facts, constraints, and predicted consequences.\nTake independent action with insight into global and regional business impact.\nWilling to speak up and raise concern in global and regional settings.\nProvide options, scenarios and recommendations to overcome obstacles. RELATIONSHIPS AND CONTACTS Supervisory Relationships:\nDirect report to Director, Program Management Organization Relationships:\nFrequent collaboration with global Marketing, Purchasing, Industrial Design, Engineering, Manufacturing, Finance, Legal and Quality and other groups associated with the New Product Development process.\nFrequent contact with Global Platform Team and appropriate Category Management Team to give status updates on project performance and to address problem solving needs. External Business Relationships:\nCollaboration with suppliers, some global.\nContact with customers and consumers.","description_format":"text","description_chars":3384,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":null,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":null,"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":[],"hiring_locations":[{"name":"Mexico","iso":"MX","kind":"country"}],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Hotels & Resorts","Kitchens, Bathrooms & Home Improvement"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-10-01T20:10:22Z"},{"event":"close","at":"2026-10-20T16:55:37Z"},{"event":"reopen","at":"2026-10-21T00:40:51Z"}],"visa":[],"liveness":{"score":13,"band":"cold","label":"Long shot","p_open":1,"p_active":0.464,"p_room":0.28,"age_days":81,"expected_fill_days":39,"reasons":["conf:1","stale_co","velocity","win:tail","crowd:brand"],"computed_at":"2026-10-25T05:49:26Z"},"pay":null,"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/kohler-sr-npd-project-leader","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/kohler-sr-npd-project-leader.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-10-26T03:00:00Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","about":"Alion is a live layer of people, companies and AI agents: who they are, whether they are real and active right now, what they do and how to work with them, readable by people and by agents and paid per call.","catalog":"https://alion.io/catalog.json","usage":{"tier":"crawler_verified","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":4022,"day_limit":null,"remaining_today":null,"minute_limit":300,"resets_at":"2026-10-27T00:00:00Z"}},"offers":[{"id":"company.slices","title":"One company in depth, by slice","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002,"plus_per_slice":{"credits":0.05,"usd":0.005}},"unit":"per company, plus each slice with data","note":"the employer in depth","call":{"mcp_tool":"get_company","arguments":{"id":1756392},"rest":"https://alion.io/mcp/rest/get_company?id=1756392"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.slices&for=job%2Fkohler-sr-npd-project-leader"},{"id":"market.stats","title":"A market slice: pay, demand and time to fill","status":"live","price":{"credits":1,"usd":0.1},"unit":"per slice","note":"pay, demand and time to fill for this role and place","call":{"mcp_tool":"market_stats"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=market.stats&for=job%2Fkohler-sr-npd-project-leader"},{"id":"job.search","title":"Open jobs by role, technology, place, pay and visa","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002},"unit":"per posting in a list","note":"similar open postings","call":{"mcp_tool":"search_jobs"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=job.search&for=job%2Fkohler-sr-npd-project-leader"},{"id":"company.verify","title":"Is this company real and active right now","status":"pilot","price":null,"unit":"per company","request":{"url":"https://alion.io/catalog/request","method":"POST","body":"{\"offer\": \"company.verify\", \"for\": \"job/kohler-sr-npd-project-leader\", \"note\": \"what you need it for\"}"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.verify&for=job%2Fkohler-sr-npd-project-leader"}]}