Project Manager - Commercial sales within a manufacturing environment
Posted 1 week ago by 1765612257
Negotiable
Outside
Remote
USA
Summary: The role of Senior Project Manager in Commercial Sales focuses on leading customer-facing projects within a manufacturing environment, ensuring seamless execution from opportunity through delivery. The position requires strong commercial acumen and the ability to manage multiple projects while coordinating between various internal teams. The ideal candidate will have experience in commercial sales and a solid understanding of manufacturing processes. This role emphasizes effective communication and operational planning to meet customer expectations and drive project success.
Key Responsibilities:
- Manage customer projects from RFQ through delivery and post-sale support.
- Develop project scopes, customer requirement documents, timelines, and delivery plans.
- Ensure commercial terms, pricing agreements, and customer expectations are aligned across internal teams.
- Partner with sales executives to support quotations, proposals, and customer program planning.
- Serve as primary customer contact for milestones, technical clarifications, and delivery schedules.
- Lead customer status reviews and program performance reporting.
- Translate customer demand, forecasts, and orders into production-ready schedules.
- Coordinate with manufacturing, engineering, and supply chain to ensure capacity, materials, and labor.
- Track production progress and communicate risks and recovery plans.
- Monitor full quotetocash lifecycle including order entry, production, quality checkpoints, shipping, and acceptance.
- Ensure ontime delivery performance meets customer expectations.
- Oversee change requests, spec updates, and engineering revision management.
- Facilitate communication between sales, engineering, manufacturing, procurement, and quality.
- Prepare and deliver project dashboards, revenue forecasts, and project health metrics.
- Drive cross-functional problem solving and escalate issues early.
- Identify bottlenecks in salestomanufacturing workflows.
- Standardize project documents and communication tools.
- Support pricing updates, customer onboarding, and sales operations enhancements.
Key Skills:
- Bachelor's degree in Business, Engineering, Supply Chain, or related field.
- 4+ years of project or program management experience in a manufacturing environment.
- Experience working with commercial sales or customer programs.
- Strong understanding of manufacturing processes, production scheduling, and supply chain.
- Excellent customer-facing communication and presentation skills.
- Proficiency with project management tools and ERP systems.
- Experience supporting quoting, contract review, or commercial operations.
- PMP, CAPM, or similar certification.
- Background in high-mix, engineer-to-order, or make-to-stock manufacturing.
- Strong customer orientation balancing commercial and operational priorities.
- Highly organized, proactive, and detail-oriented.
- Able to manage competing deadlines in a fast-paced environment.
- Strong communicator who leads without authority.
- Comfortable working in ambiguity and building structure as needed.
Salary (Rate): undetermined
City: undetermined
Country: USA
Working Arrangements: remote
IR35 Status: outside IR35
Seniority Level: undetermined
Industry: Other
SENIOR PROEJCT MANAGER COMMERCIAL SALES
RATE: Open
REMOTE
6 MONTH MINIMUM DURATION
SELLING POINTS: up to 10%-15% travel. Manufacturing and commercial sales the emphasis is on commercial sales within a manufacturing environment
We are seeking a Commercial Sales Project Manager to lead customer-facing projects and drive seamless execution from opportunity through delivery within a manufacturing environment. This role serves as the bridge between sales, customers, production, engineering, supply chain, and finance, ensuring that commercial commitments are translated into executable operational plans. The ideal candidate has strong commercial acumen, understands manufacturing processes, and can manage multiple customer projects with precision and urgency.
Key Responsibilities Commercial Project Ownership
- Manage customer projects from RFQ through delivery and post-sale support.
- Develop project scopes, customer requirement documents, timelines, and delivery plans.
- Ensure commercial terms, pricing agreements, and customer expectations are aligned across internal teams.
Key Responsibilities Sales Enablement & Customer Coordination
- Partner with sales executives to support quotations, proposals, and customer program planning.
- Serve as primary customer contact for milestones, technical clarifications, and delivery schedules.
- Lead customer status reviews and program performance reporting.
Key Responsibilities Manufacturing & Operations Integration
- Translate customer demand, forecasts, and orders into production-ready schedules.
- Coordinate with manufacturing, engineering, and supply chain to ensure capacity, materials, and labor.
- Track production progress and communicate risks and recovery plans.
Key Responsibilities Order & Delivery Management
- Monitor full quotetocash lifecycle including order entry, production, quality checkpoints, shipping, and acceptance.
- Ensure ontime delivery performance meets customer expectations.
- Oversee change requests, spec updates, and engineering revision management.
Key Responsibilities Cross-Functional Communication
- Facilitate communication between sales, engineering, manufacturing, procurement, and quality.
- Prepare and deliver project dashboards, revenue forecasts, and project health metrics.
- Drive cross-functional problem solving and escalate issues early.
Key Responsibilities Continuous Improvement
- Identify bottlenecks in salestomanufacturing workflows.
- Standardize project documents and communication tools.
- Support pricing updates, customer onboarding, and sales operations enhancements.
Qualifications Required
- Bachelor s degree in Business, Engineering, Supply Chain, or related field.
- 4+ years of project or program management experience in a manufacturing environment.
- Experience working with commercial sales or customer programs.
- Strong understanding of manufacturing processes, production scheduling, and supply chain.
- Excellent customerfacing communication and presentation skills.
- Proficiency with project management tools and ERP systems.
Qualifications Preferred
- Experience supporting quoting, contract review, or commercial operations.
- PMP, CAPM, or similar certification.
- Background in highmix, engineertoorder, or maketostock manufacturing.
Attributes for Success
- Strong customer orientation balancing commercial and operational priorities.
- Highly organized, proactive, and detailoriented.
- Able to manage competing deadlines in a fastpaced environment.
- Strong communicator who leads without authority.
- Comfortable working in ambiguity and building structure as needed.