Director - Product Development Initiatives
SharkNinja
- Needham, MA
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Director assigned high impact global initiatives, partnering with leaders and teams around the world spanning teams across Product Development, Commercialization, Marketing, and Operations, amongst others
- Work as a team member to support and drive high-impact projects focused on a variety of business outcomes and representing several functional disciplines
- Interact and partner with senior leaders at SharkNinja to define project outcomes, workstreams, activities, timelines, team structures, and other foundational elements of project and transformation management
- Lead development of approaches, frameworks, and best practices to accelerate and drive project impact
- Develop effective working relationships with associates across levels at SharkNinja
- Conceptualize and develop executive-level presentations that are concise, crisp, visual, and impactful
- Provide support to the VP and Chief of Staff on other high priority activities, including project and program management, presentation development, and analytics support
- 7 - 10+ years of relevant experience in Product Development, Marketing, or Operations
- Demonstrated functional knowledge and experience across various departmental or process areas in a CPG organization
- Successful track record of delivering results within a rapidly growing company
- Strong project management skills with proven ability to drive for results, manage risk, and pivot when relevant to enable speed to results
- Proven experience in using data (KPIs) in a measurable way to achieve specific strategic results that are relevant to the organization. The ideal candidate will have strong analytical skills to develop, measure and improve key performance indicators
- Successful track record of supporting cross-functional initiatives from concept to completion
- Ability to integrate large amounts of ambiguous information into executive-level insights that drive action
- Excellent executive-level oral and written communication skills
- Motivated self-starter, with ability to identify and drive innovative approaches to address new challenges
- Comfort working deep in the details, but also at a high level - shifting between the two near continuously
- An entrepreneurial spirit and comfort working in a dynamic, fun, fast-paced environment
- Superior MS Office skills, particularly Excel and PowerPoint; experience with Domo and similar program a plus
- As a corporate citizen, learn and support SharkNinja's Diversity, Equity & Inclusion strategy
- Be an Ally, find internal Champions
- Explore SharkNinja's Employee Resource Groups or volunteer to serve on committees that organize diversity-related events and activities
- Participate in employee engagement surveys and respond as openly and honestly as possible
- Become culturally competent; take the time to learn about different cultures, races, religions and backgrounds represented by your colleagues
- Treat people in a way they wish to be treated rather than the way you wish to be treated
- Leads us to be “RARELY SATISFIED”
- Make things better each day; “PROGRESS OVER PERFECTION”
- Using your knowledge of our consumer, understand that “DETAILS MAKE THE DIFFERENCE,”
- Deliver something great; “WINNING IS A TEAM SPORT”
- Be clear and honest, “COMMUNICATING FOR IMPACT.”
- Lead us to be “RARELY SATISFIED”
- Make things better each day; “PROGRESS OVER PERFECTION”
- Use your knowledge of our consumer, understand that “DETAILS MAKE THE DIFFERENCE”
- Deliver something great; “WINNING IS A TEAM SPORT”
- Be clear and honest, “COMMUNICATING FOR IMPACT”