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Position Description:

The Project Manager leads enterprise initiatives, including capital investments and strategic programs. The position establishes, governs, and continuously improves the organization’s project, program, and portfolio management framework to ensure alignment with business strategy and measurable value realization. The role works cross-functionally to ensure projects are delivered efficiently, consistently, and in alignment with business objectives.

Key Responsibilities:

Strategic Project Leadership

• Manage the full lifecycle of strategic projects from initial planning of budgets, timelines, and schedules through execution, completion, and sustainment.
• Coordinate cross-functional teams and external partners to achieve project goals.
• Guide, mentor, and provide tools to team members that enables them to perform at their best.
• Develop and maintain project schedules, budgets, and status reports. Provide financial reporting, risk management, and issue escalation to the Executive Team.
• Ensure all projects follow company standards, approval processes, and meet requirements and expectations.
• Track OKRs/KPIs and timelines. Communicate progress, wins, and lessons learned to stakeholders.

Project Management Standards

• Lead the creation, implementation, and ongoing improvement of project management tools, templates, and processes.
• Facilitate regular project reviews and portfolio updates to ensure consistency and efficiency.
• Provide governance for all projects with respect to templates, standards, communication, and processes.
• Deliver training and coaching on project management best practices to project sponsors, team members, and leaders.
• Provide executive governance for project management principles in major business processes and systems.

Supervisory/Management Responsibilities:

None

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in business, operations, or a related field.
• 5+ years of experience in high-level project management (manufacturing or food industry experience is a plus).
• Experience as a PMP managing a portfolio of projects and implementing project management standards.
• Strong organizational, communication, and leadership skills.
• Ability to work with diverse teams and influence without direct authority.
• Experience with Lean/Six Sigma/continuous improvement is a plus.

Physical Requirements:

• Frequently operates a computer, phone, ERP systems, and other standard office equipment while performing forecasting, reporting, order management, analytical activities, and reviewing spreadsheets, dashboards, reports, and ERP system information.
• Must be able to remain stationary for extended periods while working at a computer workstation and performing frequent hand, finger, and wrist movements for typing, data entry, and system navigation.
• Frequently communicates with internal departments, customers, suppliers, and other business partners in person, by phone, video conference, and electronic communication methods.
• Occasionally moves throughout office, warehouse, and manufacturing environments to support operational, inventory, scheduling, and customer service activities and may be exposed to varying temperatures within warehouse and manufacturing environments.
• May occasionally lift or move standard office materials up to 15 pounds.

The company is committed to providing equal employment opportunities to qualified individuals with disabilities. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions of this position, provided such accommodations do not create an undue hardship on the Company. The Company reserves the right to modify, interpret, or apply this job description as business needs require. This job description is not intended to be an exhaustive list of all duties, responsibilities, or qualifications associated with the position.

Competencies:

• Business Acumen: Understands business implications of decisions, conducts cost-benefit analyses, displays orientation to profitability, and aligns work with strategic goals.
• Problem Solving: Ability to facilitate discussion, can differentiate between common cause and special cause, identifies problems in a timely manner, gathers and analyzes information skillfully, understands cause versus effect, develops alternative solutions, resolves problems in early stages, and works well in group problem solving situations.
• Conflict Resolution: Able to encourage open communications, confront difficult situations, maintain objectivity, keep emotions under control, and use negotiation skills to resolve conflicts.
• Leadership: Exhibits ethical and moral behavior in everyday business conduct, earns trust of others by disclosing information and admitting mistakes, recognizes and resolves ethical questions, ensure organizational ethics are widely understood and encourages open discussion of ethical issues.
• Conflict Resolution: Able to encourage open communications, confront difficult situations, maintain objectivity, keep emotions under control, and use negotiation skills to resolve conflicts.

Core Values:

Exhibits the following company core values and regularly influences them to others

• We embrace our legacy and build for the future
• We take pride in all we do
• We make decisions and commit
• It’s a privilege to serve each other, our customers, and the community
• We are a team that plays to win

Benefits for this role include: Medical, vision, dental, discretionary bonus up to 15% (50% personal performance based & 50% company performance), 401(k) with matching up to a max of 4% and 120 hours PTO in the 1st 12 months.