Senior Project Leader

Avery Dennison • Little Rock, AR

3d • $76,800 - $113,568 • Hybrid

About The Position

The primary objective of the Sr. Project Leader is to ensure the successful delivery of work, create transparency and facilitate consensus among stakeholders, maintain standard workflow processes as well as identify, document, and train stakeholders in new or improved workflow processes. Workfront and Azure DevOps, a third party, online workflow management tools, are the principal tools used for organizing and executing workflows. Project Leaders duties include work management platform project administration, project onboarding and closure, sprint project management, reporting, issue management, process improvement, documentation, and coordination. Project Leaders may work daily with various stakeholders, including our customer service PM teams, roughly 12 distinct teams within Engineering, product, strategy and innovation teams, production facility team members, accounting, and others. Excellent understanding of standard project management practices is required for most projects including management of project plans, quoting, resources availability, project scheduling, prioritization, communicating status updates, and change management. Beyond standard project management skills, the Sr. Project Leader position will require an evolving understanding of client business rules and technical processes unique to Vestcom.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Communications, or related field; 5+ years of related Information Technology project management experience; or equivalent combination of education and work experience.
• Previous experience with project management tools such as Azure DevOps, Jira, Workfront or Microsoft Project for project tracking and resource scheduling.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills with demonstrated ability to effectively inform/update internal and external stakeholders regularly on status and immediately on any issues.
• Highly organized with strong analytical and problem-solving abilities, teamwork skills to work with diverse teams, and ability to prioritize work requests from multiple requestors with limited resource availability.

Nice To Haves

• PMI Project Management Professional (“PMP”) or Certified Scrum Master certification is preferred.
• AzureDevOps and Workfront experience a plus.

Responsibilities

• Ensure the successful delivery of work.
• Create transparency and facilitate consensus among stakeholders.
• Maintain standard workflow processes.
• Identify, document, and train stakeholders in new or improved workflow processes.
• Work management platform project administration.
• Project onboarding and closure.
• Sprint project management.
• Reporting.
• Issue management.
• Process improvement.
• Documentation.
• Coordination.
• Manage project plans, quoting, resources availability, project scheduling, prioritization, communicating status updates, and change management.
• Develop an evolving understanding of client business rules and technical processes unique to Vestcom.
• Uses work management platforms to manage the project and tasks within the project to show burndown, resource utilization, project progress and documentation.
• Drives project onboarding and closure including the following processes: business and product requirement reviews, work item management and development, quoting, scheduling, resource management, and closure.
• Manages the successful delivery of project portfolios for clients including publishing project schedules, maintaining project plans, facilitating agile ceremonies, and supporting the Helpdesk issue management process in Workfront.
• Creates, monitors, and trains users on work management platform reports that drive processes, while championing Agile methodology values to identify workflow inefficiencies and train stakeholders in new workflows.
• Promote collaboration and clear communication with both internal and external stakeholders, including key business partners, and execute other duties as assigned by management.

Benefits

• Health Insurance: Access to our large network of medical and behavioral health professionals.
• Retirement: Avery Dennison supports your retirement readiness financially through company contributions to the 401(k) Plan. We encourage you to save as much as possible to meet your goals. You receive an automatic contribution of 3% of eligible pay (even if you contribute $0) plus a matching contribution of 50% on the first 7% of eligible pay you contribute.
• Parental Leave: Your salary is 100% paid during your approved parental leave of absence as a biological, adoptive, and/or foster parent.
• Paid Time Off: We offer a generous vacation program that varies based upon your experience and position within Avery Dennison.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior