Associate Program Manager @ SharkNinja

Our purpose is to positively impact people’s lives every day in every home around the world! We work very hard to provide our consumers with high-quality, exciting 5-star products that make life easier. We thrive on passion and innovation and are looking for great people, with great ideas, who want to build the next big thing and develop while they do.

Associate Program Managers at SharkNinja assist in owning the entire New Product Development (NPD) process from concept to shelf for our Shark and Ninja Brands. Associate Program Managers deliver sustainable, best in class product development thinking, governance, and process to enable the organization to execute the program portfolio flawlessly. Associate Program Managers work cross-functionally, providing exposure and visibility on a global scale acting in a general manager capacity. Associate Program Managers lead via influence and are responsible for establishing and driving timelines and resources to develop, manufacture, and get products to market with a high degree of speed and efficiency ensuring a 5-star quality experience and high rate of sales.

A SharkNinja Associate Program Manager thinks, acts and leads his/her programs like a global leader for every project or program they manage and owns the overall success of the program with a steady focus on Scope, Cost, and Schedule. Our Associate Program Managers are seen as the glue that holds the team together by owning communication streams across all groups in order to ensure that risks are mitigated, and deliverables are completed on time. They operate with urgency, ensuring that scope creep, cost risks, and schedule slips are escalated to senior management in parallel to driving resolutions.

Associate Program Managers are individual contributors, leading the organization through our unique SharkNinja product development process. This role is best suited for a professional who thrives, and has demonstrated success in a dynamic, fast paced product development environment. This role reports to one of our Senior Program Managers in Shark.

Responsibilities:

Drives and actively facilitate the interaction of cross-functional stakeholders to bring products to market, including managing risks, and schedule
Collaborate with teams to ensure that the go to market strategy will provide high rate of sales
Accountable to deliver all elements of the program, from product ideation to end-of-life
Make use of KPI’s and data to help drive decision making across the cross-functional teams
Identify program risks, develop mitigation/contingency and track progress
Spot resource and knowledge gaps and take steps necessary to highlight/remedy
Identify resource and knowledge gaps and take steps necessary to highlight/remedy
Channel global information to local teams, act as conduit to support the business

Requirements & Attributes:

Bachelor’s Degree in technical/engineering or business management field highly desired
2+ years direct Program management experience
Experience desired in some combination of new product development or program management (Consumer Goods Industry strongly preferred)
Assertive, confident, capable
Able to cultivate and lead a high performing team that delivers results
Excellent written, verbal and communication skills. Experienced addressing C-Suite, Peer Functional Groups, Suppliers, and Customer audiences
Cross-functional leadership skills
Possess a strong bias to action and accountability
Intermediate/working level skills with MS Project (or similar), Excel, PPT and Visio
High energy, with a positive attitude
Detail oriented
Presentation skills – Must be proficient with PowerPoint and be comfortable developing and presenting to large groups including executive management either in person or over MS Teams.

At SharkNinja, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion are vital to our global success. Valuing each unique voice and blending all of our diverse skills strengthens SharkNinja’s innovation every day. We support ALL associates in bringing their authentic selves to work, making an impact, and having the opportunity for career acceleration. With help from our leadership, associates, and our community, we aim to have equity be a key component of the SharkNinja DNA.

YOUR ROLE in leading our SUCCESS DRIVERS & representing our UNIQUE MINDSET

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”

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