Project Leader

About Us:
**Become a part of our dynamic and innovative team at WernerCo**
Are you seeking an exciting career opportunity with the world's largest and most well-known ladders, storage, and access equipment brands? Our market-leading products and brands are widely used on job sites across the globe, and our team is dedicated to building relationships, gaining insights, and delivering exceptional customer service. We are seeking team players who are passionate about their careers and eager to contribute to the growth of our organisation. At WernerCo, we prioritise teamwork, integrity, customer focus, and continuous innovation, and we consider our people to be our most valuable asset. If you want to be a part of our success, we would love to hear from you.

Overview:
Reporting through the Engineering structure but working with multi-disciplined and multi locational teams mainly in EMEA on ‘New Product Development & Introduction’ and ‘Cost alignment’ initiatives, the role is to lead those teams through the daily challenges of the project and process requirements of achieving the project goals and targets on cost, time and specification.

**Responsibilities**:

- Leading, driving & supporting teams through the daily challenges of projects/product development
- Working with Product Management team to define product requirements.
- Organizing and supporting project kick off meetings and hands-on workshops
- Creating timing plans and targets to support and drive the project.
- Removing roadblocks to support the project teams in delivering the project requirements.
- Ensuring team alignment throughout the project.
- Following and driving the appropriate business processes to ensure compliance at all stages.
- Reporting project updates to key stakeholders at monthly global business meetings.
- Develop process and project management within the organization further

The above points all contribute to the ultimate goal of delivering products and projects on time, on cost and on quality.

Qualifications:

- Proven successful experience in similar roles
- Must be able to travel intenationally

EEO Statement:
WernerCo is committed to fostering, cultivating, and preserving a culture of diversity, equity and inclusion. WernerCo is an equal opportunity employer and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any kind. All qualified applicants to WernerCo are considered for employment without regard to age, colour, disability, ethnicity, family or marital status, gender identity or expression, language, national origin, physical and mental ability, political affiliation, race, religion, sexual orientation, socio-economic status, veteran status or any other protected characteristic. WernerCo will not tolerate discrimination or harassment of any kind based on these characteristics.