Project Manager

Metro Supply Chain Holdings USA•Green Bay, WI

About The Position

The Project Manager is responsible for managing and overseeing projects and deliverables that support major programs, including new customer implementations and growth platforms. The role manages project scope and change requests, budget, schedule, staffing, risk, quality, and contractual deliverables in accordance with PMO methodologies and guidelines. The Project Manager leads projects and programs throughout their life cycle, from planning through final implementation and successful completion. The position may require travel up to 75% of the time.

Requirements

At least 5 years leading teams in transformation, change management, technical integration, and implementation of project-management functions.
Previous operations leadership experience.
Financial acumen, including understanding of budgeting, financial forecasting, and cost control.
Track record of overseeing large transformation programs and delivering quality projects on time.
Ability to build strong working relationships with internal and external stakeholders.
Extensive leadership experience working with large teams.
Excellent communication and presentation skills, including experience engaging executives.
Customer-facing experience with large enterprise clients.
Ability to understand complex solutions and explain them clearly to technical and business users.
Experience leading growing teams through a hands-on, collaborative management approach.
Strong understanding of integrations, business processes, or technology designs.
Proven facilitation, negotiation, and influencing skills.
Flexible and self-driven in a fast-paced environment; able to multitask and demonstrate strong organization and time-management skills.
Expertise with WMS, TMS, Microsoft Office, Smartsheet, and Lucidchart or Visio.
Ability to travel extensively within North America; travel may be up to 75% of the time.
Bachelor’s degree in business management with a focus on project management, or a combination of education and related experience.

Nice To Haves

Experience managing start-up projects.
Warehousing and WMS experience.
Experience in Lean and/or Six Sigma.
PMP designation.

Responsibilities

Manage and lead multiple projects simultaneously using PMO methodology, standards, and governance.
Develop project charters, integrated project plans, resource plans, budgets, contingency plans, and related project-management artifacts.
Lead projects from requirements definition through deployment, identifying schedules, scopes, budget estimates, implementation plans, and risk mitigation approaches.
Plan and manage project activities to deliver on time, on budget, and cost-effectively.
Lead, coach, and build multidisciplinary teams, and provide training, coaching, and mentoring to project resources and other team members as needed.
Manage contractor and consultant relationships relevant to projects.
Manage assigned project resources as part of day-to-day activities.
Coordinate project communications, including status reporting, risk management, and escalation of issues; serve as liaison between project teams and upper-level management.
Establish and monitor controls for project scope, schedule, budget, risk, and quality.
Identify project issues and facilitate their resolution; escalate complex issues to the Director, PMO as required.
Identify and manage risks with the Project Sponsor and Steering Committee, assess risks, and plan responses.
Obtain acceptance and approval of deliverables from the Project Sponsor and stakeholders.
Set and track milestones, manage unforeseen delays, and realign schedules and expectations as needed.
Use project-management tools to track project performance and schedule adherence.
Provide leadership and direction to functional teams to coordinate scope, quality, communications, change, risk, and issue management.
Establish and maintain lifecycle processes for scope management, quality and performance standards, and risk assessment.
Develop presentations, reports, post-mortems, and project close-out materials.
Create and manage project budgets.
Store and manage project documents in the project repository.
Perform other duties as assigned.