Regional Digital Operations PM – Manufacturing

Newell Brands; Belgique; Remote; EUR 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Newell Brands is seeking a Technical Project Manager for Digital Operations within the Operational Excellence Engineering team across EMEA & APAC. You will drive digital transformation, coordinate rollouts, and align site needs with central directions to deliver tangible improvements in manufacturing operations.

The role requires strong project management, data analysis, and ability to work with cross-functional teams, vendors, and external contractors.

Qualifications

• Around five years of experience in a digital, data or technology environment, in project management, business analysis or a comparable role.
• Exposure to programming or low-code tools (Node-RED or similar), databases, Power BI or other BI tools, cloud platforms, DevOps.
• Strong analytical skills; comfortable working with data and turning it into insight.
• Proven ability to coordinate multi-stakeholder initiatives across sites, functions and external partners.
• Excellent organisational and follow-through skills, with a structured and documentation-oriented approach.
• Strong communication skills and the confidence to engage with site teams, leadership, central functions, IT and vendors.
• Professional fluency in English.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate rollouts across manufacturing sites: schedules, dependencies, site readiness and open actions.
• Run the demand intake: gather and structure requests from sites and business teams and prepare them for prioritisation by the Regional Program Lead.
• Translate site requirements into solutions together with the technical team (machine data connectivity, CMMS, reporting, system integrations).
• Coordinate external contractor delivery from scope definition and planning through progress tracking and handover to internal owners.
• Support the implementation of regional digital standards across sites, including KPI definitions, templates and applications, and close adoption gaps.
• Act as the connection point between manufacturing sites and the regional program: surface challenges, coordinate decisions and ensure follow-through.
• Organise key-user training and capability building with internal and external trainers, and monitor adoption across sites.
• Provide clear, consolidated program reporting: progress, risks, dependencies and decisions required.
• As the data platform grows: analyse site data and build Power BI dashboards that support operational decisions.

Skills

Project management

Business analysis

Data analysis

English fluency

Tools

Power BI

Node-RED

Cloud platforms

DevOps

Job description

Newell Brands is seeking a Technical Project Manager for Digital Operations within the Operational Excellence Engineering team across EMEA & APAC. You will drive digital transformation, coordinate rollouts, and align site needs with central directions to deliver tangible improvements in manufacturing operations.

The role requires strong project management, data analysis, and ability to work with cross-functional teams, vendors, and external contractors.