functional manager
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A person who has management authority over an organizational unit, such as a department, within a business.
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- In our matrix organization, the functional manager sets the technical standards while the project manager handles timelines.
- Please get approval from your functional manager before reallocating resources.
- As a functional manager, she conducts annual performance reviews for her team.
- The functional manager was consulted to resolve the cross-department issue.
- Have you informed your functional manager about the budget overrun?
- Each engineer reports operationally to a functional manager and dotted-line to a project lead.
- The new policy requires the functional manager to approve training requests in advance.
- During the merger, their functional manager coordinated job descriptions and competencies.
- By Q3, a temporary functional manager will have been appointed to oversee the lab.
- If the functional manager disagrees, escalate through the governance board.