Project Manager, New Product Development

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Position Overview

Company Overview 

Shaw Industries Group, Inc. is a leader in flooring and other surface solutions designed for residential housing, commercial spaces and outdoor environments. Leveraging strengths in design, innovation and operational excellence, the company takes a people-centered, customer-focused, and growth-minded approach to meet diverse market needs. It creates differentiated customer experiences through its expansive portfolio of brands: Anderson Tuftex, COREtec, Shaw Floors, Patcraft, Philadelphia Commercial, Shaw Contract, Shaw Sports Turf, Shawgrass, Southwest Greens, Watershed Geo and more. Headquartered in Dalton, Georgia, Shaw is a wholly owned subsidiary of Berkshire Hathaway, Inc. with more than $5 billion in annual sales and approximately 18,000 associates worldwide.

Position Summary 

The Project Manager, New Product Development, leads Shaw's Home Center and TotalWorx product development projects from concept through launch. Reporting to the Director of PMO, this individual-contributor role owns each project's plan, cross-functional team, risks and stakeholder communication, and keeps every project on schedule, within scope and ready for the customer. The role also helps the business stand up a new Home Center product development process, turning the current discovery work into a process that the channel, product, technical and supply teams use every day. The Project Manager works closely with the Home Center channel, category, design, technical, quality, supply development, marketing and finance teams, and provides informal guidance to Associate Project Managers. 

This role would be located in Shaw Global HQ in Dalton GA, working in a hybrid schedule.

This is a Project Manager role focused on new product development and not a technology related PM opportunity

Portfolio Focus 

• Home Center. New and refreshed flooring programs for national home-improvement retailers. This work runs on the retailer's calendar (product line reviews, award decisions, and store load-in or reset dates), often with short notice and short production windows. The Project Manager plans backward from those dates and works ahead to protect them. The work includes protecting and refreshing the business already in stores, not only new awards. 

• TotalWorx. Shaw's trims, moldings and stair-tread accessories. The Project Manager leads TotalWorx-led projects and makes sure the accessories that go with hard surface and soft surface flooring launches are defined, sourced, costed and ready at launch. Stair treads and new trims that need overseas tooling have the longest lead times, so they must be identified early in the gate process. 

• Home Center process build. The business is moving from discovery to designing a Home Center product development process. The Project Manager will help shape and pilot it (stages and decision points, Workfront templates, roles and responsibilities, and measures) and then run projects through it. 

Key Responsibilities 

• Lead multiple concurrent Home Center and TotalWorx projects from concept through launch, bringing structure, coordination and project-management discipline to complex initiatives across multiple teams and suppliers.
• Proactively align stakeholders across channels and functions, identifying potential conflicts, dependencies and customer implications early enough to resolve them before they affect project execution.

• Build and maintain integrated project plans, schedules, resource plans and risk registers that work backward from retailer and launch dates and identify long-lead items early. 

• Facilitate cross-functional project teams and prepare projects for tollgate reviews, making sure deliverables and decisions are ready on time. 
• Frame trade-offs among scope, timing, cost, quality and risk as clear options with a recommendation, facilitating decisions across cross-functional teams and with Director and senior-level business leaders.

• Manage scope and change control so that projects stay aligned with business goals, the product roadmap for each account, and customer commitments. 

• Coordinate testing, compliance, claims and packaging requirements with Quality, Technical, Marketing and Legal so that products meet both Shaw and retailer standards. 

• Help design, pilot and continuously improve the new Home Center product development process, and apply and improve PMO standards, templates and reporting. 

• Keep Workfront current as the single source of truth for project data, and produce clear status reporting and dashboards for the PMO Director, stakeholders and leadership. 

• Use AI tools and workflow automation to reduce manual work in planning, status reporting and analysis, while checking outputs for accuracy and protecting confidential information. 

• Provide informal guidance and support to Associate Project Managers. 

Qualifications 

Required 

• Bachelor's degree in Business, Engineering, Supply Chain, Project Management or a related field, or equivalent experience. 
• Demonstrated ability to manage complex projects through ambiguity and changing requirements, adapting plans quickly while maintaining stakeholder alignment and execution discipline.

• 5+ years of professional project management experience leading multiple concurrent or complex cross-functional projects. Experience in new product development, manufacturing, engineering, supply chain, continuous improvement or product launch environments is strongly preferred.
• Working command of project management methodology (PMI / PMBOK, stage-gate, and hybrid or agile practices), including integrated schedules, risk and change management, and budget and cost tracking. 
• Proven ability to influence without direct authority and to facilitate trade-off decisions with senior leaders. 
• Strong proficiency with project management software (Adobe Workfront preferred; Smartsheet, Airtable, Microsoft Project, Jira or similar) and with Microsoft 365, including Excel, Teams and SharePoint. 
• Practical, everyday use of AI tools (for example, Microsoft Copilot) and automation, with sound judgment about accuracy and data confidentiality. 

Preferred 

• PMP certification, or progress toward it. 
• Experience in flooring, building products, consumer durables, manufacturing or another product-based environment, including collaboration with domestic and/or international teams and suppliers.
• Experience delivering programs for big-box or home-improvement retailers, such as product line reviews, retailer timelines and compliance testing. 
• Experience with Power BI or similar reporting tools, and with building dashboards or workflow automations.  Lean or Six Sigma training.  Experience helping design and roll out a new business process. 

Key Competencies 

• Execute Action Plan
• Demonstrate Good Judgement
• Influence Others
• Initiate Action
• Deliver Compelling Communication
• Build Customer Satisfaction
• Adapt and Change
• Innovate 

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