Hillenbrand

Responsibilities/Objectives

• Supports and aligns efforts to meet customer and business needs.
• Manages relationships and expectations by communicating regularly with stakeholders on project status and results.
• Stays current with business needs and strategies; utilizes formal and informal written communication methods (i.e. emails, newsletters, PowerPoint presentations, executive updates, task lists) to communicate updates and findings related to business processes and/or systems; facilitates project meetings and presentations to diverse audiences (i.e. senior management, end-users, technical staff)
• Completes and regularly updates project documentation; manages project scope; adjusts project schedules when necessary; determines daily priorities; ensures efficient and on-time delivery of project tasks and milestones; follows proper escalation paths; and manages relationships with stakeholders.
• Identifies, creates, and facilitates process design changes by conducting business and systems process analysis and design at a complex level; focuses on quality improvement and data management; ensures data is reliable, valid, and secure; develops process improvement plans; integrates new systems/processes with legacy systems/processes; and partners with business stakeholders and end-users to ensure solutions provided by IT align with long-term business strategies.
• Provides and supports the implementation of technology-driven business solutions by building relationships and partnerships with key stakeholders; identifies business needs.
• Provides project-level analysis and develops related diagrams, flows, tables, and/or graphs.
• Demonstrates fluency in business processes and process differentiation.
• Understands and negotiates needs and expectations of multiple stakeholders.
• Creates and maintains issue logs, meeting minutes, meeting schedules, project summaries and updates.
• Creates and maintains project schedules by developing project plans and specifications, estimating time and resources, monitoring milestone completion, tracking all phases of the project lifecycle, providing timely reporting of issues that impact project progress, coordinating actions, and resolving conflict.
• Supports system conversions, upgrades, and enhancement.

Skills/Experience

Required

• Formal training and/or experience in IT project management
• 5+ years of proven experience managing IT projects using Agile and Waterfall project management methodologies.
• Advanced-level software implementation project management processes
• Strong communication (written and oral), organization, and interpersonal skills
• Advanced analytical acumen with the ability to translate data, to insights, to action.
• Advanced presentation skills
• Advanced experience with Microsoft Office programs (e.g. PowerPoint, Word, Excel, MS Project)
• Experience successfully leading small to medium IT projects and/or in business/IT consulting/management roles.
• Requires leadership and negotiation skills and experience/in-depth knowledge of the business requirements analysis and IT processes.
• Business knowledge – strong background in various business functions and operations
• Language skills: English is required, other languages are a plus.
• Ability to work autonomously.

Preferred

• Certification as a Project Manager through PMI (Project Management Institute)
• Budget Management – Intermediate Level
• Experience working with projects implementing SaaS solutions.
• Experience with project and program management software.

Education

• Bachelor’s degree (IT or Computer Science focus preferred) or equivalent work experience.

Travel

• Employee must be able to travel up to 15% of the time.

Core Competencies

• Project Management
• Functional Business Knowledge
• Customer Focus
• Business Acumen
• Resource Management
• Reporting
• Vendor Management
• Negotiation Skills
• Contract Knowledge
• Emerging Technology Trends
• Industry and Organizational Awareness

Physical Demands

To perform this job successfully, the physical demands listed are representative of those that must be met by an employee. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to sit, stand, walk, use hands to handle and feel, reach with hands and arms, talk and hear. The employee may occasionally be required to crouch. The employee may occasionally lift items as heavy as 25 lbs. Specific vision abilities may include the employee’s ability to see near and far distances.

DISCLAIMER: The above information on this job description has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work performed by the employee within this classification. It is not designed to contain or be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibilities and qualifications required of any employee assigned to this job. Nothing in this job description restricts management’s right to assign duties and responsibilities to this job at any time.

Who we are: 

Milacron is a global leader in the manufacture, distribution and service of highly engineered and customized systems within the $27 billion plastic technology and processing industry. We are the only global company with a full-line product portfolio that includes hot runner systems, injection molding, extrusion equipment. We maintain strong market positions across these products, as well as leading positions in process control systems, mold bases and components, maintenance, repair and operating (“MRO”) supplies for plastic processing equipment. Our strategy is to deliver highly customized equipment, components and service to our customers throughout the lifecycle of their plastic processing technology systems. Milacron is a Operating Company of Hillenbrand.

Hillenbrand (NYSE: HI) is a global industrial company that provides highly-engineered, mission-critical processing equipment and solutions to customers in over 100 countries around the world. Our portfolio is composed of leading industrial brands that serve large, attractive end markets, including durable plastics, food, and recycling. Guided by our Purpose — Shape What Matters For Tomorrow™ — we pursue excellence, collaboration, and innovation to consistently shape solutions that best serve our associates, customers, communities, and other stakeholders. To learn more, visit: www.Hillenbrand.com.

EEO: The policy of Hillenbrand Inc. is to extend opportunities to qualified applicants and employees on an equal basis regardless of an individual's age, race, color, sex, religion, national origin, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression or veteran status. Additionally, Hillenbrand Inc. and our operating companies are committed to being an Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) Employer and offers opportunities to all job seekers including individuals with disabilities. If you need a reasonable accommodation to assist with your job search or application for employment, email us at recruitingaccommodations@hillenbrand.com . In your email, please include a description of the specific accommodation you are requesting as well as the job title and requisition number of the position for which you are applying. At Hillenbrand, everyone is welcome to apply and "Shape What Matters for Tomorrow".