Senior Project Manager, Ops. Excellence (Finance)

Driving Infinite Possibilities Within A Diversified, Global Organization

Honeywell has an excellent opportunity available for an experienced professional who aspires to drive transformational change in a world class organization. A career at Honeywell offers a multitude of possibilities within a diversified, global organization that is helping to solve the world's toughest challenges and improving the quality of life for people globally.

Honeywell is a Fortune 100 company that invents and manufactures technologies to address some of the world's toughest challenges linked to global macrotrends such as connected enterprises, energy efficiency, clean energy generation, safety and security, globalization, and customer productivity. With approximately 129,000 employees worldwide, including more than 22,000 engineers and scientists, we have an unrelenting focus on performance, quality, delivery, value, and technology in everything we make and do.

Position Summary :

This Sr. Project Manager, Ops. Excellence will lead the development and execution of strategic restructuring and business transition projects within ESS. The projects consist of acquisition integrations, manufacturing site repositioning, footprint consolidations and rationalizations, establishing global centers of excellence, global business enterprise moves, and insourcing and outsourcing projects to meet strategic plan objectives. This role will be responsible for leading projects in accordance with Honeywell's Standard Transitions Process.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead global cross-functional teams to identify, develop, scope, model, and resource strategic business transformation projects.
• Deliver projects on budget, on schedule with identified financial benefits.
• Conduct robust due diligence and deliver flawless project execution.
• Translate strategic plans into actionable projects with accurate costs, schedule and benefits.
• Ensure global use of practical, effective tools and techniques (Standard Transitions Process) to manage the implementation of business transformation projects.
• Manage project charters, risk and mitigation plans, project schedules, financial targets, costs and savings calculations and methodology, periodic and recurring business reviews, executive leadership briefings, resource planning, change management plans, employee relations plans, roles and responsibilities matrices, stage-gate based implementation methodologies, conflict resolutions plans and service level agreements in order to guarantee success.
• STP Process owner for ESS
  1. Responsible for establishing and ensuring all projects are compliant to ESS Procedures
  2. Coordination point for phase gate approvers, phase gate meetings and projects met gate requirements
  3. ESS contact for corporate STP training coordination, instructor and ensuring corporate process requirements are met
  4. Partner with the business directors for onboarding and coaching of candidates while using project assessments to consistent project planning, financials and execution are being implemented.
  5. Deliver mini-STP training to cross functional support teams to drive efficiency across all teams.
• Process Excellence
  1. Responsible for on boarding, training new PM's and mentoring
  2. Continuous improvement owner for the STP and related business processes, incorporation of lessons learned and functional core team improvements
  3. Drive continuous improvement of process as well as key tools.
  4. Owner for project metrics (financials, schedule, compliance)
• Management Operating System
  1. Revamp operating system for transitions team that drives predictive and proactive execution of projects thorough the lifecycle of ideation to closure.
  2. Manage monthly operating reviews along with SBG and Corporate reporting to ensure alignment and execution of overall strategy.
  3. Manage ESS NDA process
  4. Prepare PM's and participate in project audits
  5. Coordinate goals/results, town halls and leadership meeting agendas

Essential Competencies

Project Management: Manage cross-functional teams to define and execute project scope and deliver actions on-time and on-budget. Uses Honeywell Standard Transitions Process to manage projects. Manages costs and schedule, understands status of a project at any point in time. Effectively escalates risk to schedule and cost to mitigate impact.

Project Complexity: Ability to manage and execute projects across multiple businesses, product lines, and regions. Solving large scale problems with strategies that include multiple projects, multiple workstreams and spans multiple sites or SBG's.

Business and Finance Acumen: Knowledge of and experience with financial data and the overall business portfolio. Financial knowledge to include an understanding of project cost/savings, business P&L, product cost, and gross profit. PM can connect the project to the respective GBE's STRAP/AOP/Budgets.

Effective Communications Provides timely, clear and concise information to all levels of the organization. Shares complex info succinctly; adapts content and level of detail appropriate for targeted audience. Articulates trade-offs and business case scenarios visually in PowerPoint. Demonstrates a confident and collaborative leadership presence. Courageously addresses challenging topics.

Drives Accountability: Translates plans into actions and leads self and others at all levels of the organization to execute on key deliverables to meet budget and schedule.

Influence without Authority Leads key stakeholders in understanding priorities and decisions and effectively addressing business concerns to an appropriate outcome. Quickly establishes credibility with all stakeholders. Anticipates viewpoints, concerns, and motivations of others and uses it to impact outcomes/decisions.

Integrative Thinker: Decides and takes action by applying intuition, experience and judgement with information available. Assimilates various and conflicting data or opinions into well considered decisions and recommendations. Consistently makes prudent business decisions even when faced with a high degree of complexity or potential risk. Fully considers pros and cons to ensure that the potential benefits outweigh the risks involved. Supports taking appropriate risks, while encouraging the consideration and discussion of potential issues.

YOU MUST HAVE

• A minimum of 8 years progressive experience required
• 2+ years of experience independently managing complex and high value projects at an enterprise level or relevant leadership roles that include oversite of projects. This includes defining scope, budget, financial payback, Integrated Project Plans, Action tracking and managing core and steering team.
• 2+ years of experience developing and delivering presentations to a VP level audience including financial models demonstrating various scenarios, inputs, and potential outcomes that enable strategic decision making

WE VALUE

• Bachelor's degree in engineering, business, finance, or other technical/analytical discipline
• An MBA is preferred but this can be substituted with relevant experience and ability.
• Strong sense of urgency and attention to detail.
• Excellent communication skills (written and verbal) including presentation planning and delivery skills.
• Advanced expertise in gaining stakeholder alignment.
• Ability to lead and communicate complex financial analyses to prioritize business decisions.
• Ability to discern, develop and manage the impact of operating structure decisions on the P&L of the business.
• Strong ability to lead and influence multi-functional teams without a direct reporting relationship.
• Ability to deal with ambiguity and align interests of multiple constituents.
• Model desired behaviors for others to exhibit and influence / motivate others to shift mindset or behaviors. Remove obstacles, cross boundaries and bring resources to the situation.
• Influence at all levels of the organization to achieve desired outcomes.
• Demonstrated record of on-time and on-budget project and/or program management execution (capital, technology, marketing, etc).
• Analytical skills and more specifically being able to connect disparate information (data from different sources, processes, people, etc.)
• A proven track record of delivering results in large, complex, matrix organizations
• Excellent planning, execution, and project-management skills
• Strong knowledge and/or experience with Standards Transitions Process
• Commercial mindset with the ability to influence senior leadership
• Strong communications skills
• Ability to translate strategy to execution. Results minded with a focus on execution
• Demonstrated ability to lead large transformational projects working with multiple function
• Ability to influence across and up in the organization
• Hands-on person who possesses the best combination of strategic thinking and the drive to achieve tangible business results.

Additional Information

• JOB ID: HRD263682
• Category: Business Development
• Relocation Tier: Not Applicable
• Security Clearance:
• Aviation Authority (FAA for US):
• Band: 04
• Referral Bonus: 1500
• Requisition Type: Standard Requisition
• US Citizenship:
• FLSA Statement:
• FLSA CODE: Exempt

Honeywell is an equal opportunity employer. Qualified applicants will be considered without regard to age, race, creed, color, national origin, ancestry, marital status, affectional or sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, disability, nationality, sex, religion, or veteran status.