Associate Manager,Project Management - Rio de Janeiro

ABOUT US 

SC Johnson has been leading with purpose for 140 years, building high-quality products and iconic brands found in homes, schools and businesses in virtually every country worldwide – including OFF!®, Raid®, Glade®, Windex®, Scrubbing Bubbles®, Ziploc®, Mrs. Meyer’s Clean Day®, method®, Autan®, Baygon®, Mr Muscle®, Duck®, Lysoform® and more. The 13,000 people of our global, fifth-generation family company are committed to making the world a better place today and for future generations.

ABOUT THE ROLE 

As an Associate Manager, Project Manager, you will be responsible for leading and coordinating cross-functional projects, supporting the expansion of Lifestyle Brands across International Consumer Brands (ICB) markets.

Your role will focus on translating business opportunities and strategic priorities into structured, actionable, and market-ready launch plans, ensuring alignment between global brand objectives, local market requirements, and operational execution.

This position requires a proactive, entrepreneurial, collaborative, and results-oriented professional, capable of managing complex projects in a dynamic, fast-paced, and matrixed environment. You will be responsible for defining project scope, establishing timelines, coordinating resources, identifying potential risks, and driving effective decision-making to ensure successful project execution.

You will collaborate closely with cross-functional teams, including Marketing, Research & Development, Supply Chain, Manufacturing, Procurement, Quality, Regulatory Affairs, Finance, and local market teams, ensuring alignment, clear communication, and successful product launches across multiple markets.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

·       Translate opportunities into executable scope: Work with Lifestyle Brand leaders, local ICB Business Units and RD&E partners to clarify target markets, products/SKUs, claims, localization needs, intended launch windows and success measures.

·       Contribute to country portfolio visibility: Maintain accurate project-level inputs to the prioritized country launch portfolio, making assumptions, dependencies and readiness gaps visible to portfolio owners.

·       Help define the right launch model: Partner with the business sponsor and functional leads to document the agreed route to market, development path, internal/external execution approach, accountable owners and handoffs for each assigned initiative.

·       Own end-to-end project integration: Build and lead integrated plans across RD&E, Marketing, Product Supply, Procurement, Quality, Regulatory, Finance and market teams, using applicable SCJ NPD/StageGate and commercialization processes in a fit-for-purpose manner.

·       Create accountability without authority: Facilitate decisions, secure functional commitments, coordinate partners and external vendors, and resolve conflicting priorities through trust, constructive challenge and transparent follow-through.

·       Connect technical and market readiness: Align packaging design and validation, process scale-up, regulatory/claims requirements, sourcing, supply chain readiness and country launch activities so technical completion translates into viable commercial execution.

·      Move ahead amid uncertainty: Frame hypotheses, define minimum viable learning and decision gates, and sequence practical test-and-learn activities while maintaining product safety, quality and compliance standards.

·      Make trade-offs actionable: Anticipate timeline, cost, technical, capacity and country-readiness risks; offer clear options with implications and recommendations, and escalate decisions at the appropriate level.

·      Build resource transparency: Consolidate functional resource assumptions, vendor lead times, funding requirements and capacity constraints; inform resource plans and propose phasing or scope alternatives when demand exceeds capability.

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We’re committed to ongoing efforts that help us attract, hire, and retain diverse talent who want to build a positive, inclusive environment. Read more about our ongoing initiatives at https://jobs.scjohnson.com/inclusion.