Project Manager, US Crop

External Overview:

FMC Corporation is a leading specialty company focused on agricultural technologies. FMC provides innovative and cost-effective solutions to enhance crop yield and quality by controlling a broad spectrum of insects, weeds and disease, as well as in non-agricultural markets for pest control.

FMC is a globally diverse organization that offers its employees exciting opportunities to work on challenging projects that are important to the achievement of our strategic objectives. Your education and professional experience is valued and put to use from day one. Your success at completing key initiatives can result in a varied, progressive and fulfilling career with FMC.

FMC offers flexible remote work up to 2 days per week as well as a compelling benefits package.

With a corporate culture of innovation, integrity, responsibility and customer intimacy, we foster “The Right Chemistry” in everything we do. We are looking for people to join us in creating, developing, and improving our products, our processes, and our markets.  If you are ready to make a difference every day, FMC is ready to talk to you.

Business/Function Overview:

As the Project Manager for US Crop you will be reporting into the Director of Marketing, US Crop. Based in Philadelphia, your role is focused on defining new product opportunities as well as managing a growing portfolio of innovative projects driving towards commercialization.  The role will be focused on projects and product launches ranging from -3 to 2-year outlook. On a day to day basis your role will require you to support and maintain the existing projects as well as future projects.  All aspects of your role will require you to work closely and deeply with the US Crop. Marketing team, Our Strategic Account Executives who manage our key customer relationships, Operations and Supply Chain, Legal, and Global Marketing.  The Agricultural Solution business manages a growing portfolio of innovation projects driving towards commercialization. It is critical we optimize the value of this portfolio by stewarding the launch process at every stage through best in class project management.

Responsibilities: 

The Project Manager will work directly with the US Marketing and internal stakeholders to:

• Defines projects that must meet the business case value and deadlines as specified at initiation, through the leading of a network of regional commercial leaders and global personnel responsible for ensuring that technical and commercial data is current and accurate
• Responsible to work with internal teams to establish a set of criteria to evaluate US Crop projects for advancement
• Overall responsibility to manage timelines, milestones and deliverables for all approved projects
• Engagement and coordination with the North America Innovation Council,  Executes decisions, gains commitment to agreed actions, and ensures work quality of the network deliverables
• Motivates, communicates and facilitates project network members to meet goals and deadlines as determined by the network work plan and business case
• Ensures a single, consistent data set on the project to be created by the network members
• Grow value: challenge and mentor the core teams in defining new opportunities, ensure high quality forecast in all concepts/projects, leverage projects from other areas and businesses, pursue selective new concepts/projects aligned with global business management team strategies
• Develop with team members core documents to be reviewed and updated to capture key assumptions at each project milestone (Biology Star Chart, Gaant Chart, Commercial Launch Playbook, Formulation Summary and criteria, etc.)

Required Education: 

• Bachelor’s degree in business/agriculture/science/engineering
• Master’s in business/science/engineering preferred but not required

Qualifications: 

• 5 + years’ experience in Project Management in new product development and R&D with preference given to experience in the specialty chemicals industry.
• 3-5 years’ experience managing project managers and project teams.  Proven ability to develop and lead project managers to manage project timelines, resources, and budgetary requirements.
• Skilled in the practice of being able to influence proactively and build consensus to affect change.
• Experienced in working within global organizations and an aptitude to work in diverse cultures.
• Exceptional analytical, verbal and written communication skills, including conflict resolution skills.
• Comfortable communication with and taking input from a variety of people, including senior management.
• Certification in project management required (for example, a PMP certification from PMI).  In addition, certification from PDMA is a plus.
• Experience with PPM software and MS Project Professional and administering Project Server and SharePoint required, administration of Portfolio Project Server considered a plus.
• Understands the key technical characteristics and general/business implication of the broad range of products, process and technologies used by FMC.
• Experienced in working within global organization an aptitude to work in diverse cultures.
• Must be able to travel both domestically and internationally – up to 20% travel required.
• Demonstrated ability to mentor and coach others.
• Excellent presentation skills.

EEO Statement: 

At FMC, diversity and inclusion are in our DNA. We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer with a commitment to creating an inclusive workplace where all employees can thrive – regardless of race, gender, sex, pregnancy, gender identity and/or expression, sexual orientation, national origin or ancestry, citizenship status, color, age, religion or religious creed, physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, marital status, military or veteran status, or any other basis protected by federal, state or local law. FMC also supports employee participation in company employee resource groups that celebrate the diverse backgrounds of our workforce by providing communities for employees to connect with each other and raise awareness throughout FMC.

FMC complies with federal and state disability laws and makes reasonable accommodations for applicants and employees with disabilities. If reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or interview process, please contact our Talent Acquisition department at talentacquisition@fmc.com.