Project Manager- 3PL
About The Position
The Project Manager - 3PL manages projects across warehousing, distribution, transportation, fulfillment, value-added services, and technology. The role translates customer requirements and contractual commitments into coordinated plans and deliverables, aligning internal teams, customers, and vendors. It monitors project scope, schedules, costs, resources, dependencies, risks, and issues, and supports operational readiness and transition to steady-state ownership. The position works in office, warehouse, distribution-center, and customer-site environments. Personal protective equipment is required in operational areas, and travel to customer and operating locations is required as project needs dictate. The role reports to the SVP, Business Solutions, Director of Project Management and has no direct reports.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in supply chain, logistics, business, engineering, information systems, or a related field; equivalent relevant experience may be considered.
- Five or more years of project-management, implementation, or operations experience.
- Experience in third-party logistics, warehousing, distribution, transportation, fulfillment, or supply-chain operations.
- Demonstrated ability to manage cross-functional projects with multiple stakeholders and competing priorities.
- Working knowledge of project planning, budgeting, risk management, change control, and status reporting.
- Strong communication, organization, problem-solving, and stakeholder-management skills.
- Proficiency with project-management and productivity tools.
- Ability to travel to customer and operating locations as project needs require.
Nice To Haves
- Project Management Professional (PMP), Certified Associate in Project Management (CAPM), Lean Six Sigma, or comparable certification.
- Experience with warehouse management, transportation management, labor management, enterprise resource planning, or electronic data interchange systems.
- Experience supporting facility start-ups, customer onboarding, systems integrations, automation, or process improvement.
Responsibilities
- Manage projects across warehousing, distribution, transportation, fulfillment, value-added services, and technology.
- Develop and maintain project charters, work plans, schedules, budgets, resource plans, risk registers, and status reports.
- Translate customer requirements and contractual commitments into clear tasks, milestones, owners, and acceptance criteria.
- Coordinate Operations, Solutions, Engineering, IT, Transportation, Finance, Sales, Human Resources, Safety, Quality, Procurement, customers, and vendors.
- Facilitate project meetings, document decisions and action items, and ensure timely follow-through.
- Monitor scope, schedule, costs, resources, dependencies, risks, and issues; escalate concerns and implement corrective actions.
- Manage change requests and maintain stakeholder alignment on impacts to cost, timing, and deliverables.
- Coordinate testing, training, cutover, go-live, hypercare, operational readiness, and transition to steady-state ownership.
- Support compliance with customer requirements, standard operating procedures, safety expectations, quality standards, and applicable regulations.
- Prepare customer and leadership updates communicating progress, decisions, risks, and required support.
- Capture lessons learned and improve project tools, processes, templates, and delivery practices.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
