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Solenis is a leading global provider of water and hygiene solutions. The company’s product portfolio includes a broad array of water treatment chemistries, process aids, functional additives, cleaners, disinfectants, and state-of-the-art monitoring, control and delivery systems. These technologies are used by customers to improve operational efficiencies, enhance product quality, protect plant assets, minimize environmental impact, and create cleaner and safer environments. Headquartered in Wilmington, Delaware, the company has 78 manufacturing facilities strategically located around the globe and employs a team of over ~23000 professionals in >160 countries across six continents. Solenis is a 2025 Best Managed Company Gold Standard honoree.

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As Senior Project Manager, you will lead the global service productivity program, delivering $10M in savings over two years. You will manage both digital and non-digital initiatives, building a multi-year pipeline from MVP through ongoing enhancements to improve sales and service productivity.

You will define targets and workplans for each initiative, execute TMO processes, and ensure strong governance using standardized tools. This role requires building relationships across the commercial organization and driving effective change adoption.

Operating at a high pace, you will be responsible for leading governance processes and present progress to executives monthly.

Responsibilities:

• Capability to build the service productivity strategy with digital and process improvements.
  • Project management- ability to run 2-3 projects simultaneously, in accordance with the TMO standard operating procedure.
  • Ability to lead cross functional project teams that design and execute productivity initiatives.
  • Capability to articulate and align roles and responsibilities at the project launch
  • Capability to lead a team to build crisp problem statements and iterate them with project sponsors 2-3 times in gate reviews.
  • Capability to place projects in AOP at the region and business unit level
• Establish relationships and collaborate with the digital team, equipment team, and other enablers in monthly cadence.
• Build project business case and articulate assumptions to senior leaders
  • Generate hypotheses for potential projects, quickly test them, and scale successful initiatives.
  • Generate targets and transparently share variance reporting (actuals vs target) for FP&A to place in AOP
  • Align targets with P&L leaders prior to AOP
• Establish governance and executive report outs.
  • Run the TMO gate review process
  • Prepare gating artifacts and templates for the project team
  • Prep project team to present at gate review
  • Work with HUB and FP&A to track project results
• Capability to build a change management structure and lead the structure through a change management process

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree
• Process improvement experience and productivity experience preferred
• Led Institutional, Consumer, Industrial or NCH services
• Critical thinking skills
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills
• Ability to break down complex problems into discrete small projects
• Ability to scope projects in small and achievable buckets.
• Ability to generate hypotheses and test them rapidly and transition if the hypotheses are rejected.
• Ability to prioritize on the vital few of a project and avoid ‘boiling the ocean.’
• Mental agility- ability to flex and change courses quickly, as situations change.
• Organization: Time stewardship and meeting management
  • Ability to organize meetings and be a steward of project team time.
  • Create meeting agendas before the meeting.
  • Build prework and have team members come prepared for meetings.
  • Build a meeting strategy where the project team is talking instead of the project manager
  • Build a process each meeting updates action item list- specific action, one owner (not a team) and a deadline

We understand that candidates will not meet every single desired qualification.  If your experience looks a little different from what we’ve identified and you think you can bring value to the role, we’d love to learn more about you.

At Solenis, we understand that our greatest asset is our people. That is why we offer competitive compensation, comprehensive benefits which include medical, dental, vision & 401K, and numerous opportunities for professional growth and development. So, if you are interested in working for a world-class company and enjoy solving complex challenges, whether in the lab or the field, consider joining our team.

Solenis is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Affirmative Action Employer, including Minorities / Women/ Veterans / Disabled.  All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or protected veteran status and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability.

Should you require assistance in applying to this opportunity, please reach out to Solenis Talent Acquisition at talentacquisition@solenis.com