Global Process Leader: Drive Change & Product Excellence

Milwaukee Tool; Brookfield (CT); On-site; USD 130,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Milwaukee Tool seeks a Principal Process Owner to drive agile transformation and optimize product development processes. You will collaborate with global engineering teams, manage complex initiatives, and lead change across the organization to improve efficiency and customer outcomes.

The role requires strong leadership, excellent communication, and proven experience in process improvement, cross-functional collaboration, and program management within a fast-paced environment.

Qualifications

• 5-7 years of experience as a Product Owner, Business Analyst, Process Owner, or related role supporting enterprise process, system, or product data transformation initiatives.
• Experience leading organizational change management efforts for enterprise process or system implementations, including stakeholder alignment, communication planning, training, adoption tracking, and reinforcement.
• Experience working across global teams to define, standardize, and deploy common processes while balancing regional business needs and local execution requirements.
• Proven ability to drive adoption of new tools and processes in highly technical environments by engaging end users, addressing resistance, and connecting change to measurable business value.
• Strong facilitation skills with the ability to lead global workshops, process mapping sessions, requirements reviews, and change impact assessments with cross-functional stakeholders.
• Bachelor’s degree or higher in Project Management, Engineering, Computer Science, Software Engineering, Business, or a related discipline required; periodic travel may be required.

Responsibilities

• Acts as CEO of project - Takes accountability and possesses a sense of urgency for entire project outcome
• Partners with key stakeholders and effectively communicates up, down, and across the organization
• Leads with clear direction of priorities in a climate of change
• Develop and deliver training to all levels of organization as needed.
• Provide organization, direction, and clarity to IT Team, Key Stakeholders, and multiple engineering teams globally to create requirements and drive development on software products as well as process improvement projects
• Lead the functional design process based on an intimate knowledge of our process and technologies and the needs of our end-users and stakeholders
• Plan and prioritize feature backlog grooming, iteration planning, and elaboration of the user stories for the Global Engineering Teams
• Develop and execute action plans and project timelines exhibiting strong project management skills
• Establish appropriate metrics and report on progress, achievements and results.
• Ensure changes are fully integrated through follow-up communication and consistency utilizing change management methodologies
• Drive accountability for team to successfully complete tasks

Skills

Leadership

Change management

Stakeholder alignment

Global teams

Agile

Requirements gathering

Education

Bachelor’s degree or higher in Project Management, Engineering, Computer Science, Software Engineering, Business

Tools

Teamcenter

CAD

PLM

ECM

Job description

Milwaukee Tool seeks a Principal Process Owner to drive agile transformation and optimize product development processes. You will collaborate with global engineering teams, manage complex initiatives, and lead change across the organization to improve efficiency and customer outcomes.

The role requires strong leadership, excellent communication, and proven experience in process improvement, cross-functional collaboration, and program management within a fast-paced environment.