The Manager will lead a team of cross-platform Project Managers; establish common governance, reporting, tools, and operating practices; and partner closely with NPD, Strategic Business Management (SBM), Design-to-Value (DtV), Engineering, Operations, Supply Chain, Quality, Finance, and Commercial teams. This role is central to improving portfolio visibility, resolving cross-functional execution barriers, accelerating innovation, and building a high-performing global project management organization.
Key Responsibilities
Enterprise NPD Execution and Governance
- Lead the consistent, global application of Flowserve’s New Product Development and Product Development Process frameworks across platforms and business functions.
- Establish and maintain enterprise-level project governance, including phase-gate expectations, decision-readiness criteria, escalation paths, project-health standards, and leadership review cadences.
- Own the definition, reporting, and continuous improvement of core NPD performance metrics, including On-Time Delivery, On-Budget Delivery, project health, milestone attainment, risk exposure, resource utilization, and product vitality.
- Ensure project teams maintain integrated plans covering scope, schedule, budget, resources, dependencies, risks, decisions, and deliverables.
- Drive disciplined execution from concept through development, validation, industrialization, launch, and post-launch transition.
Process, Tools, and Continuous Improvement
- Lead enterprise-level improvement and standardization of NPD, Product Development Process, and Design-to-Value practices.
- Develop and maintain project-management procedures, templates, playbooks, deliverables, reporting tools, and governance standards.
- Partner with NPD and DtV leaders to identify execution gaps, simplify processes, improve adoption, and embed best practices across the organization.
- Evaluate and recommend project-management, portfolio-management, reporting, and collaboration tools that improve visibility, efficiency, and decision quality.
- Participate in assessments involving third-party consultants, supplemental workforce partners, and organizational/process-improvement initiatives.
- Coordinate the development, communication, training, and adoption plans required to implement process and tool improvements successfully.
Portfolio, Capacity, and Financial Management
- Lead the team of cross-platform Project Managers in the execution of prioritized NPD initiatives.
- Conduct regular capacity-and-demand assessments to inform project-manager assignments, workforce planning, prioritization discussions, and resource-gap resolution.
- Partner with NPD, SBM, DtV leadership, and functional leaders to translate portfolio priorities into executable delivery plans.
- Own NPD budget reporting in collaboration with NPD Leads and Financial Business Partners, including forecast accuracy, project cost performance, and cost-to-complete visibility.
- Provide executive-level portfolio reporting that highlights performance trends, decisions required, delivery risks, resource constraints, and recommended actions.
- Support business cases, financial analysis, cost-benefit analysis, and Design-to-Value initiatives that improve program outcomes and resource allocation.
Cross-Functional Leadership and Risk Management
- Lead resolution of enterprise-level project-support gaps while operating in alignment with the NPD RACI and functional-accountability model.
- Build strong partnerships across Engineering, Product Management, Manufacturing, Supply Chain, Quality, Service, Finance, and Commercial functions.
- Facilitate timely decisions, resolve cross-functional conflicts, remove barriers, and escalate issues when necessary to protect project commitments.
- Champion proactive risk management by ensuring teams identify, assess, mitigate, and communicate technical, commercial, operational, supply-chain, financial, and schedule risks.
- Ensure project teams use appropriate contingency plans, corrective actions, and lessons learned to reduce recurring execution issues.
- Ensure new intellectual-property creation and protection processes are understood, integrated into project execution, and consistently followed.
People Leadership and Capability Building
- Lead, coach, and develop a global team of Project Managers supporting NPD initiatives across product platforms.
- Establish clear individual goals, responsibilities, development plans, and performance expectations for team members.
- Build team capability in project leadership, product-development execution, financial management, risk management, communication, conflict resolution, and executive-level reporting.
- Create an environment in which Project Managers are empowered to lead decisions, provide informed technical and business input, challenge assumptions, resolve conflicts, and escalate appropriately.
- Recruit, develop, and retain high-performing talent while promoting a culture of accountability, collaboration, continuous improvement, and innovation.
- Develop role-based training and change-management plans to drive adoption of improved processes, tools, and standards.
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Business, Project Management, Manufacturing, Operations, or a related technical discipline.
- Minimum of 10 years of progressive experience in project management, product development, engineering, industrial products, or heavy manufacturing environments.
- Experience in an individual contributor technical role, such as product designer, engineer, test technician, manufacturing engineer, or equivalent technical development role.
- Demonstrated experience leading complex New Product Development, R&D, value-engineering, or product-lifecycle initiatives from concept through launch.
- Proven success leading cross-functional teams in a global, matrixed organization.
- Strong understanding of phase-gate or stage-gate product-development processes, project governance, integrated scheduling, and portfolio reporting. Formal phase-gate governance, cross-functional execution, risk management, and delivery against cost, quality, and schedule targets are common expectations for NPD leadership roles in industrial environments.
- Demonstrated ability to manage project budgets, financial forecasts, cost-benefit analyses, and resource-allocation decisions.
- Strong experience identifying, assessing, communicating, and mitigating program risks.
- Proven ability to influence without direct authority, align diverse stakeholders, resolve conflict, and drive timely decisions.
- Excellent written, verbal, presentation, and executive communication skills, with the ability to translate complex technical and business information for varied audiences.
- Demonstrated success leading organizational and process change, including adoption of new tools, standards, and ways of working.
- Strong people-leadership, coaching, mentoring, and performance-management skills.
- Proficiency with Microsoft Office applications and project-management, portfolio-management, and reporting tools.
Preferred Qualifications
- PMP certification, or equivalent demonstrated experience applying formal project-management methodologies.
- Master’s degree in Engineering, Business Administration, Operations, Project Management, or a related discipline.
- Experience leading global teams and managing geographically distributed project portfolios.
- Experience in pumps, valves, seals, flow-control equipment, industrial equipment, energy, process industries, or similarly complex engineered-product environments.
- Familiarity with Agile, hybrid Agile/stage-gate, Lean, Design-to-Value, Design for Manufacturing, Six Sigma, or continuous-improvement methodologies.
- Experience with Smartsheet, Microsoft Project, Power BI, Microsoft BI dashboards, Mural, Planview, or comparable portfolio and collaboration platforms.
- Experience with product lifecycle management, engineering-change management, and intellectual-property processes.
- Demonstrated experience implementing project-management office, portfolio governance, or enterprise reporting improvements.
Leadership Competencies
The successful candidate will demonstrate:
- Strategic execution: Converts business priorities into practical, measurable delivery plans.
- Enterprise mindset: Balances platform, functional, and enterprise needs while optimizing the overall NPD portfolio.
- Technical credibility: Understands the realities of engineered-product development, testing, industrialization, and launch.
- Change leadership: Drives adoption through clear communication, practical tools, training, and visible accountability.
- Data-driven judgment: Uses project, financial, capacity, and risk data to make sound recommendations.
- Collaborative influence: Builds alignment across functions, regions, and levels of the organization.
- Talent development: Builds capable, confident Project Managers who lead rather than simply administer schedules.
- Ownership and urgency: Maintains a disciplined focus on commitments, decisions, risks, and customer outcomes.
Success Measures
Success in this role will be reflected through:
- Improved On-Time Delivery, On-Budget Delivery, and project-health performance across the NPD portfolio.
- Stronger project predictability, milestone discipline, and decision readiness.
- Consistent adoption of enterprise NPD processes, templates, governance, and reporting standards.
- Improved visibility into portfolio capacity, resource constraints, risks, and investment needs.
- Faster identification and resolution of cross-functional project-support gaps.
