Project Manager, Intermediate

Sysco

1d•Hybrid

About The Position

With limited supervision, the Intermediate Project Manager manages project scope, schedule, budget, and quality for individual contributors and supervisors, driving delivery within the team. The role creates long- and short-term plans, establishes milestone targets and deadlines, allocates resources, delegates tasks, engages team members to meet deliverables and support effective decisions, and manages dependencies across project tasks. The position leads a low- to medium-complexity project and owns its delivery of approved business functionality within time, cost, and quality constraints. In partnership with the Project Sponsor, the Project Manager defines scope, delivery approach, assumptions, dependencies, risks, and budget; coordinates stakeholders and dependent projects; and manages project schedules, finances, risks, issues, change requests, reporting, resources, and quality. The role also conducts regular lifecycle reviews to assess business-case alignment, project progress, stakeholder relationships, outcomes, and benefits realization. This is a hybrid position requiring on-site presence 3 to 4 days per week. On-site days may increase based on business needs. Travel percentage is 0. Applicants must be currently authorized to work in the United States.

Requirements

At least 3 years of project management experience in a project management role.
Experience with project management tools and methodology.

Nice To Haves

Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration or a related field, or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
CAPM, PMP, Prince 2, or similar certification.
Experience with Agile methodology or a CSM certification.
Experience with Microsoft Office Suite, Microsoft Project, Smartsheet, or PlanView.
Demonstrated understanding of project financials and measures of performance.

Responsibilities

Lead one low- to medium-complexity project and deliver agreed outcomes within time, cost, and quality constraints.
Own project delivery of approved business functionality to Sysco.
Partner with the Project Sponsor to define project scope, delivery approach, assumptions, dependencies, risks, and budget.
Coordinate with stakeholders and dependent projects to create detailed schedules that define activities, phases, milestones, critical dates, and duration estimates; monitor and revise schedules as needed.
Monitor and control projects throughout their lifecycle, including change requests, issues, risks, and status reporting.
Manage project budgets, purchases, contracts, monthly spending, and resource forecasting; obtain cost and overhead estimates and develop budgets based on the business case.
Address low-level risks, issues, and scope-change requests; escalate when appropriate, implement responses within assigned areas, follow change-control processes, and record issues and resolutions.
Facilitate requisitions, create purchase requests, and onboard third-party resources to projects.
Own project- or workstream-level reporting using a predefined subset of reports and adapt reporting and communications to stakeholder needs.
Establish and agree on quality indicators for processes and outputs with relevant stakeholders, referring to the business case.
Conduct regular project or program lifecycle reviews to assess business-case alignment, management processes, progress against time, cost, and quality targets, stakeholder relationships, outcomes, and benefits realization.