Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. IDEX Corporation is a diverse business organization offering opportunities across various functions. The Project Manager will lead cross-functional projects, translating strategic priorities into actionable plans and ensuring disciplined execution across the organization.
Responsibilities
- Translate strategic initiatives, business priorities, and functional objectives into integrated project plans with clear deliverables, timelines, milestones, owners, dependencies, and success metrics
- Develop and maintain project plans, workback schedules, risk logs, issue trackers, decision logs, stakeholder maps, and status reporting tools
- Ensure each project has a clearly defined scope, business case, expected outcomes, resource requirements, and governance model
- Drive execution discipline by ensuring project teams understand priorities, timing, decision rights, and accountabilities
- Proactively identify barriers to progress and work with leaders and team members to resolve issues quickly
- Maintain momentum across multiple workstreams while ensuring project teams remain focused on the highest-value activities
- Create and manage project governance routines, including project team meetings, steering committee updates, milestone reviews, decision forums, and escalation processes
- Ensure project progress is visible through consistent reporting, clear metrics, and timely communication
- Track actions, owners, decisions, risks, and dependencies to ensure accountability across the project team
- Escalate risks and decisions appropriately, ensuring leaders have the information needed to make timely and informed decisions
- Help reinforce disciplined operating routines so that project execution is embedded into how leaders manage the business, consistent with the attached document’s emphasis on cadence, governance, decision forums, and escalation paths
- Partner with business leaders, functional leaders, site leaders, and initiative owners to align project work with business priorities
- Coordinate across functions such as Operations, Finance, HR, Commercial, Continuous Improvement, IT, Supply Chain, and other business teams as needed
- Build strong working relationships across diverse stakeholder groups and influence progress without relying on direct authority
- Drive clarity on roles, responsibilities, decision rights, resource needs, and expected outcomes
- Facilitate alignment when priorities compete, information is incomplete, or stakeholders have differing perspectives
- Help leaders and teams make practical trade-offs regarding scope, timing, budget, resources, and value
- Identify project risks, issues, dependencies, resource constraints, and potential execution gaps early
- Develop mitigation plans and partner with stakeholders to remove roadblocks
- Monitor project health and provide fact-based updates on schedule, scope, budget, quality, adoption, and business impact
- Anticipate the operational, financial, organizational, and people-related implications of project decisions
- Support change management activities by helping teams understand what is changing, why it matters, what is expected, and how success will be measured
- Ensure communication is clear, timely, and tailored to the needs of different stakeholder groups
- Apply strong business and financial acumen to understand how projects support growth, margin improvement, operational performance, productivity, customer outcomes, or organizational effectiveness
- Help teams focus work on the highest-value priorities and reduce effort on lower-value activities
- Use data, metrics, and business insights to inform project decisions, status updates, and recommendations
- Support project prioritization by helping leaders understand resource needs, trade-offs, timing implications, and execution risks
- Where applicable, help connect project work to 80/20 thinking, customer/product priorities, operational routines, and value-creation opportunities, reflecting the attached document’s focus on using 80/20 principles to support simplification, segmentation, profitable growth, and resource allocation
- Prepare clear, concise, and executive-ready project updates, including status summaries, dashboards, decision documents, risk updates, and milestone reports
- Communicate complex project information in a way that is simple, structured, and actionable
- Tailor communication to different audiences, including senior leaders, project sponsors, functional partners, and implementation teams
- Facilitate meetings effectively, ensuring discussions are focused, decisions are captured, owners are assigned, and follow-up actions are completed
- Demonstrate strong leadership presence, sound judgment, and confidence when presenting project updates, raising risks, and recommending solutions
- Contribute to the development and continuous improvement of PMO tools, templates, routines, and project management standards
- Create practical tools that make project execution easier, more consistent, and more transparent for business and functional teams
- Identify opportunities to improve project governance, reporting, decision-making, and execution discipline
- Capture lessons learned and share best practices across projects and teams
- Help build a culture of accountability, action orientation, and disciplined execution
Skills
- Bachelor's degree in Business, Engineering, Operations, Finance, Human Resources, Organizational Effectiveness, or a related field
- Project management experience leading cross-functional initiatives in a complex, matrixed, or multi-site environment
- Demonstrated ability to build project plans, manage timelines, track milestones, identify risks, and drive accountability
- Experience working with senior leaders and cross-functional stakeholders
- Strong business acumen with the ability to understand operational, financial, organizational, and customer implications of project work
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to prepare executive-ready updates and facilitate decision-making conversations
- Proven ability to influence without authority and drive results through collaboration
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
- High comfort level operating in ambiguity and creating structure where none exists
- Proficiency with project management tools, Microsoft Office applications, and project reporting methods
- Experience in manufacturing, industrial, engineering, operational, commercial, or global business environments
- Experience supporting strategic initiatives, transformation programs, operating model deployment, integration efforts, or enterprise-level business priorities
- Familiarity with business operating rhythms such as goal deployment, daily management, monthly business reviews, or similar management systems
- Experience supporting initiatives tied to 80/20, simplification, segmentation, profitable growth, operational improvement, or resource prioritization
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