Senior Manager Technology Project Management

At Nestlé Health Science, we believe that nutrition, science, and wellness must merge, not collide. Here, we embrace the intrinsic connections of these three pillars, harnessing their collective strength to empower healthier lives. Our broad product portfolio includes renowned brands like Garden of Life®, Nature's Bounty®, Vital Proteins®, Orgain®, Nuun®, BOOST®, Carnation Breakfast Essentials®, Peptamen®, Compleat Organic Blends®, and more. We also have extensive pharmaceutical expertise, offering innovative medicines that aim to prevent, manage, and treat gastrointestinal and metabolic-related diseases.

At Nestlé Health Science, we bring our best for better lives. Our people are challenged to bring fresh, diverse views and make bold moves to empower healthier lives through nutrition. We know brilliant ideas can come from anyone, anywhere. Here we embrace the entrepreneurial spirit and collaborate with teams that champion focused and forward thinking. We are committed to fostering professional growth and celebrating the achievements of our people along the way. We offer dynamic career paths, robust development, opportunities to learn from talented colleagues around the globe, and benefits that support physical, financial, and emotional wellbeing.

Join us to innovate for impact and reimagine the future of health and nutrition for patients and consumers.

POSITION SUMMARY

The Senior Manager, Technical Project Management, provides strategic leadership for the successful delivery of complex, cross-functional technical projects across innovation, renovation, business maintenance, total delivered cost, supply continuity, compliance, and other business-critical initiatives. This role is accountable for ensuring projects are effectively prioritized, resourced, governed, and executed from initiation through launch and closure, while meeting defined key success criteria and business objectives.

The Senior Manager leads cross-functional project teams and a team of direct reports, providing direction, and development to strengthen project leadership capabilities and ensure consistent, high-quality execution. The role proactively manages portfolio priorities, resource capacity, risks, dependencies, and competing business needs to focus resources on the highest-impact work and protect delivery of strategic commitments.

In addition, the Senior Manager leads project and portfolio governance processes, ensuring projects are appropriately scoped, decision-ready, prioritized, and supported by clear ownership and accountability. The role drives continuous improvement of project management processes, tools, systems, and ways of working to increase efficiency, strengthen data integrity, improve portfolio visibility, and enable timely, informed business decisions.

The Senior Manager serves as a strategic partner to technical, commercial, operational, and business leadership by providing clear portfolio insights, escalating critical risks, recommending mitigation strategies, and promoting alignment across functions. This role also supports organizational capability building by establishing standards, sharing best practices, strengthening project management competencies, and creating scalable processes that support the organization’s current and future growth.

JOB DUTIES/RESPONSIBILITIES

Project and Portfolio Leadership:

• Oversee complex, cross-functional projects from concept through launch and closure, ensuring delivery on time, within scope, and at the required quality.
• Align stakeholders on project strategy, scope, key success criteria, resources, risks, and execution plans.
• Monitor schedules, critical paths, budgets, dependencies, and portfolio health.
• Proactively address risks and escalate critical issues to protect business outcomes.
• Directly lead selected strategic, complex, or high-risk projects.

People Leadership:

• Lead, coach, and develop direct reports to strengthen performance and project management capabilities.
• Assign resources based on business priorities, workload, project complexity, and development needs.
• Build succession and coverage plans to support business continuity.
• Foster accountability, collaboration, knowledge sharing, and continuous learning.

Governance and Resource Management:

• Lead project and portfolio governance, ensuring projects are decision-ready, prioritized, and aligned with business strategy.
• Manage capacity planning and resource allocation across active and pipeline projects.
• Recommend project prioritization, sequencing, pausing, or cancellation based on value, readiness, and available capacity.
• Provide leadership with clear portfolio insights, risks, tradeoffs, and recommendations.

Process Excellence:

• Ensure consistent application and continuous improvement of project management processes, tools, and governance standards.
• Maintain portfolio data accuracy, documentation, and performance measures.
• Simplify and standardize processes to improve speed, efficiency, and execution.
• Clarify cross-functional roles, responsibilities, decision rights, and handoffs.

EDUCATION REQUIREMENTS

• Bachelor’s degree required.
• Project management professional certification or an advanced degree in project management is preferred.

EXPERIENCE & SKILLS REQUIREMENTS

• Minimum of 10 years of relevant cross-functional experience in areas such as Technical Applications, Research and Development, Operations, Supply Chain, Procurement, Quality Assurance, Contract Manufacturing, Engineering, or Manufacturing.
• Minimum of 8 years of project management experience leading complex initiatives in new product development, life sciences, engineering, or capital projects.
• Previous people-management experience is preferred.

Salary: $180,000.00 to $253,000.00 per year

Bonus Eligibility: Yes

The pay range provided is a good faith estimate for the position at the time of posting. Final compensation may vary based on factors including but not limited to knowledge, skills and abilities as well as geographic location. It is not typical for an individual to be hired at top of range.

Nestlé offers performance-based incentives and a competitive total rewards package, which includes a 401k with company match, healthcare coverage and a broad range of other benefits. Incentives and/or benefit packages may vary depending on the position. Learn more at https://www.nestlejobs.com/nestle-in-the-us-benefits

It is our business imperative to remain a very inclusive workplace.

To our veterans and separated service members, you're at the forefront of our minds as we recruit top talent to join Nestlé. The skills you've gained while serving our country, such as flexibility, agility, and leadership, are much like the skills that will make you successful in this role. In addition, with our commitment to an inclusive work environment, we recognize the exceptional engagement and innovation displayed by individuals with disabilities. Nestlé seeks such skilled and qualified individuals to share our mission where you’ll join a cohort of others who have chosen to call Nestlé home.

The Nestlé Companies are equal employment opportunity employers. All applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or veteran status or any other characteristic protected by applicable law. Prior to the next step in the recruiting process, we welcome you to inform us confidentially if you may require any special accommodations in order to participate fully in our recruitment experience. Contact us at accommodations@nestle.com or please dial 711 and provide this number to the operator: 1-800-321-6467.

This position is not eligible for Visa Sponsorship.

Review our applicant privacy notice before applying at https://www.nestlejobs.com/privacy.

Job Requisition: 424844

At Nestlé Health Science, we believe that nutrition, science, and wellness must merge, not collide. Here, we embrace the intrinsic connections of these three pillars, harnessing their collective strength to empower healthier lives. Our broad product portfolio includes renowned brands like Garden of Life®, Nature's Bounty®, Vital Proteins®, Orgain®, Nuun®, BOOST®, Carnation Breakfast Essentials®, Peptamen®, Compleat Organic Blends®, and more. We also have extensive pharmaceutical expertise, offering innovative medicines that aim to prevent, manage, and treat gastrointestinal and metabolic-related diseases.

At Nestlé Health Science, we bring our best for better lives. Our people are challenged to bring fresh, diverse views and make bold moves to empower healthier lives through nutrition. We know brilliant ideas can come from anyone, anywhere. Here we embrace the entrepreneurial spirit and collaborate with teams that champion focused and forward thinking. We are committed to fostering professional growth and celebrating the achievements of our people along the way. We offer dynamic career paths, robust development, opportunities to learn from talented colleagues around the globe, and benefits that support physical, financial, and emotional wellbeing.

Join us to innovate for impact and reimagine the future of health and nutrition for patients and consumers.

POSITION SUMMARY

The Senior Manager, Technical Project Management, provides strategic leadership for the successful delivery of complex, cross-functional technical projects across innovation, renovation, business maintenance, total delivered cost, supply continuity, compliance, and other business-critical initiatives. This role is accountable for ensuring projects are effectively prioritized, resourced, governed, and executed from initiation through launch and closure, while meeting defined key success criteria and business objectives.

The Senior Manager leads cross-functional project teams and a team of direct reports, providing direction, and development to strengthen project leadership capabilities and ensure consistent, high-quality execution. The role proactively manages portfolio priorities, resource capacity, risks, dependencies, and competing business needs to focus resources on the highest-impact work and protect delivery of strategic commitments.

In addition, the Senior Manager leads project and portfolio governance processes, ensuring projects are appropriately scoped, decision-ready, prioritized, and supported by clear ownership and accountability. The role drives continuous improvement of project management processes, tools, systems, and ways of working to increase efficiency, strengthen data integrity, improve portfolio visibility, and enable timely, informed business decisions.

The Senior Manager serves as a strategic partner to technical, commercial, operational, and business leadership by providing clear portfolio insights, escalating critical risks, recommending mitigation strategies, and promoting alignment across functions. This role also supports organizational capability building by establishing standards, sharing best practices, strengthening project management competencies, and creating scalable processes that support the organization’s current and future growth.

JOB DUTIES/RESPONSIBILITIES

Project and Portfolio Leadership:

• Oversee complex, cross-functional projects from concept through launch and closure, ensuring delivery on time, within scope, and at the required quality.
• Align stakeholders on project strategy, scope, key success criteria, resources, risks, and execution plans.
• Monitor schedules, critical paths, budgets, dependencies, and portfolio health.
• Proactively address risks and escalate critical issues to protect business outcomes.
• Directly lead selected strategic, complex, or high-risk projects.

People Leadership:

• Lead, coach, and develop direct reports to strengthen performance and project management capabilities.
• Assign resources based on business priorities, workload, project complexity, and development needs.
• Build succession and coverage plans to support business continuity.
• Foster accountability, collaboration, knowledge sharing, and continuous learning.

Governance and Resource Management:

• Lead project and portfolio governance, ensuring projects are decision-ready, prioritized, and aligned with business strategy.
• Manage capacity planning and resource allocation across active and pipeline projects.
• Recommend project prioritization, sequencing, pausing, or cancellation based on value, readiness, and available capacity.
• Provide leadership with clear portfolio insights, risks, tradeoffs, and recommendations.

Process Excellence:

• Ensure consistent application and continuous improvement of project management processes, tools, and governance standards.
• Maintain portfolio data accuracy, documentation, and performance measures.
• Simplify and standardize processes to improve speed, efficiency, and execution.
• Clarify cross-functional roles, responsibilities, decision rights, and handoffs.

EDUCATION REQUIREMENTS

• Bachelor’s degree required.
• Project management professional certification or an advanced degree in project management is preferred.

EXPERIENCE & SKILLS REQUIREMENTS

• Minimum of 10 years of relevant cross-functional experience in areas such as Technical Applications, Research and Development, Operations, Supply Chain, Procurement, Quality Assurance, Contract Manufacturing, Engineering, or Manufacturing.
• Minimum of 8 years of project management experience leading complex initiatives in new product development, life sciences, engineering, or capital projects.
• Previous people-management experience is preferred.

Salary: $180,000.00 to $253,000.00 per year

Bonus Eligibility: Yes

The pay range provided is a good faith estimate for the position at the time of posting. Final compensation may vary based on factors including but not limited to knowledge, skills and abilities as well as geographic location. It is not typical for an individual to be hired at top of range.

Nestlé offers performance-based incentives and a competitive total rewards package, which includes a 401k with company match, healthcare coverage and a broad range of other benefits. Incentives and/or benefit packages may vary depending on the position. Learn more at https://www.nestlejobs.com/nestle-in-the-us-benefits

It is our business imperative to remain a very inclusive workplace.

To our veterans and separated service members, you're at the forefront of our minds as we recruit top talent to join Nestlé. The skills you've gained while serving our country, such as flexibility, agility, and leadership, are much like the skills that will make you successful in this role. In addition, with our commitment to an inclusive work environment, we recognize the exceptional engagement and innovation displayed by individuals with disabilities. Nestlé seeks such skilled and qualified individuals to share our mission where you’ll join a cohort of others who have chosen to call Nestlé home.

The Nestlé Companies are equal employment opportunity employers. All applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or veteran status or any other characteristic protected by applicable law. Prior to the next step in the recruiting process, we welcome you to inform us confidentially if you may require any special accommodations in order to participate fully in our recruitment experience. Contact us at accommodations@nestle.com or please dial 711 and provide this number to the operator: 1-800-321-6467.

This position is not eligible for Visa Sponsorship.

Review our applicant privacy notice before applying at https://www.nestlejobs.com/privacy.

Job Requisition: 424844

Bridgewater, NJ, US, 08807