Project Manager

The HON Company, the largest operating company of HNI Corporation and North America’s leader in providing workplace furnishing solutions, is in search of a Project Manager to join our team in Muscatine, IA!

Position Summary: Plans and executes projects to deliver breakthrough business processes and technology solutions in alignment with corporate strategies. Encompasses all aspects of a project which may include defining the scope, developing/managing the project schedule, assigning, and working on tasks, risk mitigation, ensuring quality through testing criteria and accepting accountability for results.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Manage all aspects of assigned projects including budget, timeline, risk management, deliverables, quality, and change control
• Translate conceptual user requirements into documented, functional requirements
• Build relationships with internal stakeholder, corporate enablers, and external partners to deliver business/technology solutions
• Act as a consultant to influence strategies and long-term planning on a project-by-project basis
• Manage indirect resources, both internal and external, to understand and evaluate functional requirements, review technology/application alternatives, and develop appropriate solutions and designs.
• Effectively communicate to audiences at all levels and technical capabilities across the organization
• Develop insight and recommendations that will deliver results to business partners
• Provides RCI analyst support to a variety of cross-functional projects/processes
• Participates in activities as appropriate to ensure the success of the organization

Education Required and/or Preferred:

• Bachelor’s degree or MBA preferred

Experience Required and/or Preferred:

• Minimum 2 years experience managing applied technology projects (including project plans, timelines and budgets), providing insights and recommendations, and on impacts business results.

Skills and Abilities Required and/or Preferred:

• Strong communication, presentation, and organization skills
• Ability to effectively work under tight deadlines and manage projects independently
• Extremely detailed oriented
• Ability to analyze complex business data to communicate complex technical analysis to technical and non-technical audiences
• Willing to take initiative and drive issues to resolution
• Ability to lead cross-functional teams, to build strong teams and to interact with all organizational levels
• Manage outsourced relationships
• Ability to build relationships of trust, respect, and productive interactions
• Ability to work independently and on a team within all levels of a matrix organization
• Identify and resolve problems in a timely manner, gather and analyze information
• Work well in individual and group problem solving situations

Physical Effort and Working Conditions:

• Primary working location will be in an office environment where low volume noise is on-going
• Sitting/standing at workstation for up to the entire scheduled work day
• Majority of office time spent on a computer system
• No special safety equipment is needed

We look forward to hearing from you!

Why HNI Corporation?

HNI Corporation (NYSE: HNI) is a manufacturer of workplace furnishings and building products, operating under two segments. The workplace furnishings segment is a leading global designer and provider of commercial furnishings, going to market under multiple unique brands. The residential building products segment is the nation’s leading manufacturer and marketer of hearth products, which include a full array of gas, electric, wood, and pellet-burning fireplaces, inserts, stoves, facings, and accessories.

As one of the larger employers in Iowa, HNI Corporation has been ranked by Industry Week magazine as one of the “Top 100 Best Managed Companies in the World”, by Fortune magazine as “The Most Admired Company” in the furniture industry; and named by Chief Executive Magazine as one of the world’s best companies for leadership development.

The HON Company is the largest operating company of HNI Corporation and North America’s leader in providing workplace furniture solutions. Award winning designers and forward-thinking engineers never stop looking to advance our products, creating furniture that’s easier to use and more importantly, furniture that makes you more comfortable. HON office furniture is designed by people who are empowered to do what’s best. For our customers. For each other. And for our communities.

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