Senior Project Manager

Legrand, North & Central America; West Hartford (CT); On-site; USD 130,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401K match

Paid time off

Disability benefits

Parental leave

Volunteer time off

Job summary

Legrand is seeking a Senior Project Manager for New Product Development in West Hartford, CT. You will drive complex programs across Product Management, Engineering, Operations, and Quality to meet customer and business goals.

You’ll lead cross-functional teams, manage risks, and ensure on-time launches with post-launch reviews, while aligning with portfolio priorities and strategic roadmap execution.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree required in a related discipline.
• Master's degree preferred.
• PMP and/or Agile certification strongly preferred.

Responsibilities

• Lead complex cross-functional New Product Development programs from concept to commercialization and post-launch review.
• Coordinate product management, engineering, sourcing, quality, manufacturing, and operations to achieve KPIs.
• Define and manage scope, schedules, budgets, resources, risks, and dependencies with stakeholders.
• Lead Stage-Gate reviews ensuring compliance with development processes and governance.
• Support business cases, launch readiness, commercialization plans, and post-launch performance reviews.
• Identify, assess, and mitigate project risks and changes, communicating plans to leadership.
• Provide regular project reviews, executive updates, and portfolio-level reporting.

Skills

Leadership

Communication

Stakeholder management

Strategic thinking

Execution discipline

Organizational skills

Analytical skills

Education

Bachelor’s degree in engineering, Business, Project Management, Operations, Marketing, or related

Master's degree preferred

PMP/Agile certification preferred

Job description

Legrand has an exciting opportunity for a Senior Project Manager - New Product Development to join the Wire and Cable Management team. This position reports to West Hartford, CT. This role will lead complex, cross-functional New Product Development programs from concept through commercialization and post-launch review. The Senior Project Manager is responsible for developing and executing project plans, aligning stakeholders, managing risks and dependencies, and ensuring projects meet customer, financial, quality, schedule, and business objectives.

The Senior Project Manager will partner closely with Product Management, Engineering, Operations, Sourcing, Quality, Manufacturing, Marketing, Customer Service, and other cross-functional teams to drive successful product launches. This role requires strong leadership, communication, stakeholder management, and execution discipline in a fast-paced product development environment

Responsibilities

What Will You Do?

• Lead complex, cross-functional New Product Development programs from concept through commercialization and post-launch review, coordinating Product Management, Engineering, Test, Sourcing, Advanced Manufacturing, Operations, Marketing, Customer Service, and other functions to achieve project and product KPIs.
• Liaises between project members, cross-functional teams, external vendors, and other stakeholders to ensure deliverables, requirements, schedules, cost, and meeting plans are communicated. Partner with Product Management and Engineering to translate customer needs, market requirements, product strategy, and portfolio priorities into executable project plans.
• Define and manage project scope, schedules, budgets, resources, risks, dependencies, success metrics, and project KPIs. Communicates schedule and changes to all stakeholders.
• Lead Stage-Gate reviews and ensure compliance with established product development processes, governance requirements, and business standards.
• Support business cases, launch readiness activities, commercialization plans, and post-launch performance reviews.
• Proactively identify, assess, and mitigate project risks, issues, assumptions, dependencies, and change-control impacts.
• Facilitate timely decision-making, manage team dynamics, resolve conflicts, and elevate issues with clear recommendations when needed.
• Provide regular project reviews, executive updates, dashboards, and portfolio-level reporting to leadership. Lead lessons learned, root cause analysis, and continuous improvement of project management practices.
• Support portfolio prioritization, resource planning, and strategic roadmap execution.
• Partner with other project managers to manage interdependencies across multiple simultaneous projects.
• Foster a culture of accountability, collaboration, innovation, customer focus, and continuous improvement.
• Self-starter mindset with a drive to make a significant impact on project execution.
• Travel as required based on project needs, up to 20%

Qualifications

Education:

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, Business, Project Management, Operations, Marketing, or a related discipline required.
• Master's degree preferred.
• PMP and/or Agile certification strongly preferred

Experience:

• Typically requires 10 years of project or program management experience, including leadership of New Product Development initiatives
• Demonstrated success leading cross-functional product development programs in a manufacturing, industrial, or electro-mechanical environment.
• Experience working with Stage-Gate or structured product development methodologies.
• Experience supporting product launches, commercialization activities, and post-launch reviews.
• Experience managing executive stakeholders and influencing decisions without direct authority.
• Experience with project portfolio management, resource planning, and project reporting tools.
• Strong understanding of product development, manufacturing, supply chain, sourcing, quality, and operations.
• Experience working with regulatory bodies preferred.
• Experience in Operations, Quality, Engineering, or Product Management preferred.

Skills/Knowledge/Abilities:

• Excellent leadership, communication, facilitation, and stakeholder management skills.
• Strong ability to influence and align cross-functional teams toward common objectives.
• Strategic thinking combined with strong execution discipline.
• Strong organizational, planning, prioritization, and decision-making capabilities.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with keen attention to detail.

About Us

About Legrand

Legrand is the global specialist in electrical and digital building infrastructures. Our comprehensive offering of solutions for residential, commercial, and data center markets makes us a benchmark for customers worldwide. We harness technological and societal trends with lasting impacts on buildings with the purpose of improving life by transforming the spaces where people live, work, and meet with electrical and digital infrastructures and connected solutions that are simple, innovative, and sustainable. Legrand is a global, publicly traded company listed on the Euronext (Legrand SA EPA: LR). For more information, visit www.legrandgroup.com/en

About Legrand North and Central America

Legrand, North & Central America (LNCA) is a leader in the AV, Lighting & Controls, Electrical, and Data Center markets. LNCA offers comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage, as well as distinctive benefits like a high employer 401K match, paid time off (PTO) and holiday pay, short-term and long-term disability benefit plans, above-benchmark paid maternity and parental leave, bonus opportunities in accordance with the Company’s incentive plans, paid time off to volunteer, and an active/growing Employee Resource Group network. For more information, visit legrand.us

About Legrand’s Electrical Wiring Systems Division

Legrand’s Electrical Wiring Systems (EWS) division provides the most complete line of residential, commercial, and industrial electrical wiring devices in the world. Through commitment to innovation and quality, EWS maintains the position of industry leader in wire and cable management and wiring devices categories, specializing in raceways, flexible floor, open space and outdoor power solutions, wire mesh cable trays and systems, and designer switches and outlets. With this comprehensive offering, EWS serves a range of exciting vertical markets, including commercial office and commercial interior, data centers, education, healthcare, hospitality, manufacturing, mixed-use developments and residential. For more information, visit