Proj Mgr Matls

Gulfstream•Savannah, GA

2d•Onsite

About The Position

Under general supervision, the Materials Project Manager is responsible for coordinating and quantifying the continuous improvement projects designed to improve efficiency by eliminating waste and creating value for our customers. This role involves managing end-to-end delivery of supporting system projects using Azure DevOps (or similar tools), leading project meetings, driving agendas, tracking actions, and ensuring timely follow-ups. The Project Manager will hold business users and stakeholders accountable to agreed timelines, milestones, and deliverables, and coordinate across functional teams (Planning, Procurement, Operations, Warehousing) and Business Technology. Ensuring system enhancements are clearly defined, tested, and deployed in alignment with Leadership goals, tracking progress, managing risks, and proactively resolving project issues and dependencies are key aspects of this role. The position also requires providing structured status updates and reports to leadership, developing and delivering executive-level presentations and communications, and ensuring alignment of all initiatives with the ERP roadmap, integrations, and overall goals. Maintaining strong project governance, documentation, and prioritization across multiple initiatives is also essential.

Requirements

Bachelor's Degree in related curriculum required or equivalent combination of education and experience sufficient to successfully perform the essential functions of the job.
5 years related experience in project management or materials.
Must possess a working knowledge of statistical tools.
Must possess project/process management analysis and documentation skills.
Must possess computer literacy with enterprise planning tools.
Ability to implement problem solving skills or change initiatives at an enterprise level.
Ability to lead project teams and implement change.
This job requires one to be able to read, write, speak, and understand the English language.

Nice To Haves

Certified Lean Specialist or Six Sigma Green Belt qualified preferred.
Experience with Cognos reporting, Microsoft Office suite, iGrafx and/or Visio preferred.

Responsibilities

Manage end to end delivery of supporting system projects using Azure DevOps (or similar tools)
Lead project meetings, drive agenda, track actions, and ensure timely follow-ups
Hold business users and stakeholders accountable to agreed timelines, milestones, and deliverables
Coordinate across functional teams (Planning, Procurement, Operations, Warehousing) and Business Technology
Ensure system enhancements are clearly defined, tested, and deployed in alignment with Leadership goals
Track progress, manage risks, and proactively resolve project issues and dependencies
Provide structured status updates and report to leadership (timeline, risks, outcomes)
Develop and deliver executive-level presentations and communications
Ensure alignment of all initiatives with ERP roadmap, integrations, and overall goals
Maintain strong project governance, documentation, and prioritization across multiple initiative
Assist management and team members in establishing projects that align with the Continuous Improvement Objectives and vision of the department.
Develop project tasks, establish resources, and perform analysis of project costs.
Provide data analysis for projects return to department in dollars and/or customer service in an effort to assist management in prioritizing projects.
Allocate work and assist in controlling utilization of the resource pool to ensure compliance with project work plan.
Establish methods and/or track root causes and provide corrective analysis.
Develop, track and close out action items.
Assist Materials Management in the support of a Distribution Requirements/Resource Planning strategy to determine/satisfy demands for inventory at global distribution centers by optimizing current and future enterprise resource planning applications.
Conduct weekly reviews as required. with management regarding continuous improvement objective/project status.
Maintain current, accurate records including bar charts, flow charts, and other tools to track manpower requirements, budget performance and status of project.
If project is to be accomplished by a vendor, provide legal documentation to establish, append and follow-up with project scope of work.
Validate invoices provided by vendor.
Ensure high visibility of project measurements (i.e. PDCA, Dashboard or Metrics).
Develop and provide metrics for inventory accuracy.
Perform other duties as assigned.