Senior Project Manager
GWS Tool Group•Nashville, TN
•Remote
About The Position
GWS is the North American leader in the design and manufacturing of custom cutting tools, servicing industries including Aerospace, Automotive, Medical, Energy, and general Engineering. As the fastest growing company in our industry, the career opportunities are numerous and the pathways for advancement nearly limitless. This role leads cross-functional operational and commercial projects that improve business performance, customer value, and growth. The Senior Project Manager provides project structure, stakeholder alignment, change leadership, and measurable results.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree required.
- Seven or more years of project or program management experience.
- Experience leading complex, cross-functional transformation initiatives.
- Project planning, governance, risk management, financial tracking, and benefits realization.
- Cross-functional leadership, facilitation, negotiation, and stakeholder management.
- Ability to convert strategy and business needs into clear plans and measurable outcomes.
- Operational and commercial business acumen.
- Strong prioritization, problem-solving, communication, and executive presentation skills.
- Working knowledge of project management, ERP, CRM, analytics, and collaboration tools.
Nice To Haves
- Operations or Commercial management experience preferred.
- PMP, Lean Six Sigma, Agile, or change management certification preferred.
Responsibilities
- Lead strategic operational, commercial, and digital initiatives.
- Define project scope, objectives, business cases, plans, budgets, and success measures.
- Manage milestones, resources, dependencies, risks, issues, and decisions.
- Lead project governance, steering committees, executive updates, and escalations.
- Coordinate teams across Operations, Supply Chain, Planning, Logistics, Quality, Customer Service, Engineering, Sales, Marketing, Product Management, Finance, and IT.
- Deliver operational projects such as manufacturing improvement, S&OP, supply chain optimization, inventory reduction, automation, and process standardization.
- Deliver commercial projects such as CRM, customer experience, quote-to-order, pricing, sales effectiveness, forecasting, and go-to-market improvements.
- Connect ERP, CRM, analytics, automation, and AI initiatives to business outcomes.
- Lead change management, communication, readiness, training coordination, and adoption.
- Track schedule, budget, benefits, productivity, service, customer, revenue, and adoption measures.
- Apply PMO standards, support fact-based decisions, and capture lessons learned.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
