Senior Project Manager

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About Us

The Honest Company (NASDAQ: HNST) is a personal care company dedicated to creating cleanly-formulated and sustainably-designed products spanning categories across diapers, wipes, baby personal care, beauty, apparel, household care and wellness. Launched in 2012, the Company is on a mission to challenge ingredients, ideals, and industries through the power of the Honest brand, the Honest team, and the Honest Standard. For more information about the Honest Standard and the Company, please visit www.honest.com.

Our Mission

We're on a mission to empower people to live happy, healthy lives. We're a wellness brand with values rooted in consciousness, community, transparency, and design. Every day and in every way, we hold ourselves to an Honest standard. We believe that it is our responsibility to do our part to help create a healthy and sustainable future for all.

What youll do:

• Portfolio Leadership: Lead and oversee high-priority, complex innovation projects in support of the strategic product plan across our portfolio.
• Stakeholder Management: Build, maintain, and leverage strategic relationships within R&D, and partner deeply with Brand, Creative, Sales, Procurement, and Finance on the product development process.
• Performance & Analysis: Establish, track, and manage cross-functional performance metrics for timelines, Stage Gate documents, and post-launch / ad hoc analysis for major product launches and high-stakes SKU transitions.
• Execution & Executive Reporting: Prepare comprehensive project plans and program roadmaps, managing the meticulous execution of associated tasks, risk analysis, and high-level status updates to executive leadership.
• Accountability: Lead cross-functional project checklist and milestone meetings, driving strong accountability across key cross-functional team members to delivery projects on time and in full
• Risk Mitigation: Proactively identify, resolve, and promptly escalate high-risk issues and dependencies, conducting critical path analyses and spearheading cross-functional mitigation and recovery plans.
• Process Optimization: Champion, standardize, and continually refine effective project management workflow standards, procedures, and templates to maximize organization-wide efficiency, productivity, and quality.
• Mentorship: Act as a guiding resource and mentor to junior project managers, fostering a culture of continuous development within the project management function.

Youll love this job if you are:

• Highly analytical and strategic: Your problem-solving skills are unparalleled, allowing you to see the big picture without losing sight of the details.
• A collaborative leader: You are a self-starter who also excels at driving organizational alignment, managing change, and influencing consensus across all levels, from cross-functional squads to C-suite executives.
• Reliable and methodical: You are meticulously organized, and the entire organization knows they can depend on your execution.
• Highly adaptable and resilient: You enthusiastically navigate complex challenges, high-stakes conversations, and shifting business priorities with ease and optimism.

What youll need:

• Education: Bachelors degree required.
• Experience: 58+ years of progressive project management experience, specifically within a fast-paced Consumer Packaged Goods (CPG) environment.
• Influence: Advanced ability to influence peers, cross-functional partners, and senior managers, building a strong consensus while navigating highly ambiguous environments.
• Autonomy: Highly self-directed, proactive, and capable of operating under minimal supervision at granular tracking levels while simultaneously steering high-level strategic interdependencies.
• Communication: Exceptional verbal, written, and presentation communication skills.
• Technical Mastery: Extensive experience developing and managing intricate, multi-layered project plans with heavy cross-functional dependencies using advanced project management tools.
• Certification: PMP certification is highly preferred.