Shiseido - New York, NY
posted about 2 months ago
Full-time - Senior
New York, NY
Merchant Wholesalers, Nondurable Goods
About the position
The Senior Manager of Sustainability at Shiseido is responsible for leading sustainability projects aligned with the company's sustainability roadmap. This role involves developing and executing projects to ensure timely delivery of sustainable products while collaborating with cross-functional teams throughout the new product development process. The Senior Manager will manage a portfolio of sustainability projects, ensuring that all necessary activities are completed to support successful implementation.
Responsibilities
- Lead product required changes from project brief generation to execution, ensuring timing, quantity, cost and KPI targets are achieved.
- Lead all project meetings and coordinate the seamless integration between all Operational, R&D, Marketing & S&OP processes and functions involved in developing and phasing in required sustainability product changes.
- Lead COGS assessments at different stages of the project.
- Consistently challenge and reduce the development lead-times by ensuring appropriate balanced risks are built into the original time plans, while ensuring all COGs, quality and service requirements are achieved/exceeded.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree or related job experience, preferably in the CPG industry or Beauty.
- 7+ years project management experience.
- Ability to work well with cross-functional teams and take a leadership role within the team.
- MS Project and SAP experience required.
- Understanding of new product development processes & stage gate approach.
- Exposure to production environment & interaction of packaging, process, manufacturing.
- Ability to quickly analyze data and information from different sources and compile it into a project plan.
- Ability to work independently in a fast-moving/changing environment.
- Must be organized and detail-oriented.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Comfortable interfacing with all levels of management within Operations, R&D and Brand.
- Excellent working knowledge of Microsoft Excel, Word and PowerPoint.
Nice-to-haves
- Experience in the beauty or consumer packaged goods (CPG) industry.
- Familiarity with sustainability practices and initiatives.
Benefits
- Hybrid work model
- Equal Opportunity Employer commitment to diversity and inclusion
