Job Description:
At Pentair, you will work alongside passionate problem-solvers who are committed to the future of our planet. We put our mission into practice, helping the world sustainably move, improve and enjoy water, life's most essential resource. From our residential water filtration to industrial water management to pool products and more, our 9,000 global employees serve customers in more than 150 countries, working to help create a better world for people and the planet through smart, sustainable water solutions.
We have an opportunity for a Manager, Product Delivery, to join our Apex NC team. You will build and lead a high-performing project-management organization accountable for predictable execution across product development and lifecycle initiatives. You will own Product Delivery talent, standards, capacity, assignments, performance, and capability maturity while ensuring priority work is staffed with named project leaders, core teams, and functional owners. You will be a partner through Product Management, Product Ownership and Experience, Solution Delivery, Hardware Engineering, IoT Engineering, Product Integrity, Quality, Supply Chain, Manufacturing, Finance, Commercial teams, Service, and external partners. You will champion HW development lifecycle process and integrate with SW delivery practices within a common governance model while preserving fit-for-purpose methods and clear functional accountability. During organizational startup, you will operate as a player-coach and may temporarily lead a strategic project until staffing is complete. As the team matures, the role will transition toward primarily people leadership, portfolio execution oversight, governance ownership, and continuous improvement of the Product Delivery operating system.
You will:
Build, lead, coach, and develop the Product Delivery team, including recruiting high-caliber talent, strengthening current Project Manager capability, establishing clear role expectations, and creating development and succession plans.
Own Product Delivery capacity, assignments, standards, performance, and capability maturity across new product development, sustainment, value engineering, quality and reliability, supply continuity, and partner-enabled programs.
Match Project Manager assignments to initiative complexity, risk, business impact, individual strengths, and development needs; ensure priority projects have named project leaders, core teams, and functional owners.
Establish and continuously improve Product Delivery methods, templates, measures, decision rights, escalation thresholds, project-health criteria, and operating rhythms across the portfolio.
Set expectations for integrated planning and transparent controls covering scope, requirements, schedule, investment, resources, dependencies, risks, issues, assumptions, decisions, change, verification evidence, operational readiness, and business outcomes.
Drive commitment and milestone predictability by reviewing plans, challenging assumptions, monitoring dependencies, requiring recovery plans when commitments are at risk, and escalating decision needs with clear options and recommendations.
Strengthening Define-gate and lifecycle gate readiness by ensuring required evidence, ownership, capacity, investment, risk, and execution assumptions support reliable commitments and informed decisions.
Partner with peer Solution Delivery team and functional leaders to align product intent, product ownership, software and digital delivery, engineering execution, manufacturing readiness, commercialization, and lifecycle outcomes without transferring technical or functional ownership to Product Delivery.
Lead integration of hardware and software practices into a cohesive Product Delivery governance model; establish measurable integration milestones and improve handoffs, synchronization, visibility, and accountability.
Co-lead the design and maturation of Pentair's partner-enabled operating model, then own…