Project Specialist

About This Role

As a Project Specialist at Dow, you will lead small cross-functional project teams that deliver business process and IT solutions. This role requires understanding key business drivers to lead project planning and management throughout the project lifecycle, from initial concept to successful support model. You will be accountable for budget, contingency planning, scope, issue, and risk management. The Project Specialist helps improve productivity, streamline business processes, facilitates better business decisions, and builds solid customer relationships.

You will need to expand your conceptual and working knowledge related to your discipline or functional area and provide informal guidance to new team members, explaining complex information clearly. Your responsibility includes using technical experience, established practices, and personal judgment to analyze and resolve straightforward problems. Your performance directly impacts the quality of your own work and your team’s work, requiring adherence to established guidelines and policies.

Responsibilities

• Uses expanded conceptual knowledge to determine project approach and schedule, develops and reviews estimates, and creates project plans and tracking metrics across all phases (Design, Build, Test, Implement, etc.).
• Manages the overall schedule for project delivery with guidance, measuring and monitoring progress through phase and deliverable reviews.
• Is aware of dependencies across projects within a program and integration with other projects.
• Builds and manages relationships with suppliers and subcontractors, monitoring their progress and adherence to schedule.
• Works with teams on quality assurance, manages budget forecasting and cost control, and handles project issues, risks, and contingency planning, escalating as needed.
• Ensures projects follow the defined methodology to deliver solutions and supports teams with scope change requests and schedule implications.
• Performs budget, scope, issue, and risk management tasks by estimating information technology project costs and collaborating with external service providers.
• Completes project performance reports.

Qualifications

Bachelor's degree in an IT discipline is preferred, or a minimum of 5 years of relevant experience.

Preferred Skills

• Resource Management
• Change Management
• Project Scoping
• Business Processes
• Project Management Software (PMS)
• Agile Methodology
• Budgeting
• Waterfall Model
• Analytical Thinking
• Program Management
• Proactive Problem Solving
• Professional Presentation
• Strategic Planning
• PMO Certification

Benefits – What Dow Offers You

Dow invests in comprehensive total rewards programs that support your pay, health, life, future, and career. We value your background, talent, and perspective, rewarding your commitment by investing in your total wellbeing. Highlights include:

• Equitable and market-competitive base pay and bonus opportunities, along along with locally relevant incentives.
• Benefits and programs to support your physical, mental, financial, and social well-being.
• Competitive retirement program including company-provided benefits, savings opportunities, and financial planning resources.
• Employee stock purchase programs (availability varies by location).
• Student Debt Retirement Savings Match Program (U.S. only), where Dow matches student debt payments as 401(k) contributions.
• Robust medical and life insurance packages with various coverage options, plus travel insurance in certain locations.
• Opportunities for learning and growth through training, mentoring, work experiences, community involvement, and team building.
• Workplace culture empowering role-based flexibility for productivity and personal balance.
• Competitive yearly vacation allowance.
• Paid time off for new parents (birthing and non-birthing, including adoptive and foster parents).
• Paid time off to care for sick or injured family members.
• Paid time off to support volunteering and Employee Resource Group (ERG) participation.
• Wellbeing Portal, a one-stop shop for promoting overall wellbeing.
• On-site fitness facilities (availability varies by location).
• Employee discounts for online shopping, cinema tickets, gym memberships, and more.

Additionally, some locations may offer:

• Transportation allowance.
• Meal subsidies/vouchers.
• Carbon-neutral transportation incentives (e.g., bike to work).

Join our team; we can make a difference together.

About Dow Chemical International Pvt Ltd

Dow Chemical International Private Limited (Dow India) strives to be the most innovative, sustainable, inclusive, and customer-centric materials science company. The company is dedicated to delivering the right solutions to customer challenges through its broad technology sets spanning performance materials, industrial intermediates, and plastics. Dow India provides differentiated science-based products and solutions in high-growth segments such as packaging, infrastructure, automobile, and consumer care.

A Great Place to Work® Certified company with approximately over 1000 employees, Dow India's operations include manufacturing sites, an innovation center, established centers of excellence, and a commercial office. As a responsible corporate entity, the company supports its Corporate Social Responsibility program with technology expertise and employee volunteerism, partnering with non-profits for the empowerment of differently-abled individuals, women, and children in its operating communities. Dow India aims to redefine the societal blueprint by supporting holistic sustainability and circular economy initiatives.

As part of its dedication to inclusion, Dow is committed to equal opportunities in employment, encouraging every employee to bring their whole self to work to deliver more value and have a more fulfilling career. Further information regarding Dow's equal opportunities is available on www.dow.com.

Key skills/competency

• Project Management
• Business Process Improvement
• IT Solutions
• Cross-functional Leadership
• Budget Management
• Risk Management
• Agile Methodology
• Waterfall Model
• Stakeholder Management
• Problem Solving