Design Project Manager

Job Summary and Scope:.

The Mexico Design Project Manager oversees multiple design projects, ensuring seamless execution from initiation to completion. Responsibilities include managing workflows, coordinating resources, and maintaining clear communication with stakeholders to drive project success. This role is ideal for a highly organized and proactive professional who thrives in a dynamic, fast-paced environment. Success in this role requires strong problem-solving skills, adaptability, and the ability to manage competing priorities while delivering high-quality results.

Job Responsibilities

• Lead project management for Mexico’s Design and Studio Centers, ensuring timely and accurate project execution.
• Serve as primary liaison between Sales and Design teams on all design project requests
• Collaborate with International Design Team to execute design needs for global accounts
• Build and maintain relationships with vendor design contacts e.g. engineers and designers to support overall customer relationship
• Ensure all documents, presentations, specifications, drawings, test reports and work plans meet process requirements
• Manage difficult conversations and differentiate need for management participation
• Manage resource allocation for all design projects
• Efficiently manage multiple complex projects, leveraging internal resources for support
• Gather data in efficient manner. Understands the risk/reward model for decisions
• Ability to deploy cross functional support services with ease. Clear understanding of all internal resources (skills and contacts)
• Ability to recognize and pull in non-design resources as required
  
  

Qualifications / Knowledge & Experience

• Associate or Bachelor degree preferred
• Duration in prior role: 3-5 years
• Project management certification. Relevant industry training.
• Advanced team leadership skill set
• Advanced users of MS Office suite
• Strong working knowledge of Workfront, Salesforce & Box software programs. Ability to generate custom reporting and identify/implement process improvements through advanced software applications
• Ability to facilitate complex customer programs to internal support teams
• Advanced understanding and application of project management software and file management software.
• Ability to train and lead others in software operation and overall tool use. Desire to expand knowledge of associated fields (design, printing, testing, color, etc.)
• Ability to effectively resolve complex problems, including corrective actions to prevent reoccurrence. Strong negotiation skills
• Customer service, quality or production experience preferred
• Fluent in English and Spanish
  
  

Working Conditions/Physical Requirement

• Ability to lift packages up to 35 lbs
• Ability to work in office, warehouse, design and laboratory environment
  
  

Budget/P&L Responsibilities

• None
  
  

Decision Rights

• Ability to influence others to achieve success through meeting commitments. Holding others accountable for delivering to commitments. Ownership & Accountability to all stake holders
• Ability to negotiate delivery timing based on resource availability and project scope. Ability to justify, and defend, rejects, reassignments and delays.
  
  

Positions Supervised

• None
  
  

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