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Job Description:

The Master Project Manager owns the cross-functional project portfolio — enabling visibility, driving accountability and ensuring that strategic priorities move from decision to delivery without friction.

You won't manage a team of project managers. You are the standard. This role requires someone who can hold complexity, run multiple workstreams simultaneously, communicate with clarity, and build systems that outlast any single initiative.

 Job Title: Master Project Manager

Supervisor’s Title: Chief of Staff

Department: Executive

Location: Richmond, VA (Hybrid)

About TemperPack

TemperPack is a rapidly growing company based in Richmond, Virginia and with locations in Las Vegas Nevada, and Holt Michigan. We design and manufacture innovative, sustainable packaging components for cold-chain shipping of food and pharmaceutical products.  The markets we serve have an urgent need for disruptive, sustainable alternatives to replace the wide array of non-sustainable packaging materials conventionally used in the cold-chain such as Styrofoam coolers.  Our aspiration is to provide packaging solutions that customers and end-consumers feel great about using.

Essential Job Functions:

Strategic Portfolio Management

• Manage the full cross-functional project portfolio
• Maintain a real-time view of project health, milestones, blockers, and risks
• Build and maintain the master project tracker — structured, searchable, and always current
• Create executive-ready status reporting for project portfolio

Operating Cadence

• Own project update meetings and steering committee meetings
• Partner with the CoS to translate strategic decisions into actionable workplans with clear owners and timelines
• Run post-mortem and lessons-learned cadences on completed strategic initiatives

Stakeholder Coordination

• Interface directly with project managers from each function and the leadership team to track dependencies and clear blockers
• Flag risks and conflicts proactively — never reactively
• Prepare briefing materials, project summaries, and executive updates

Systems & Tools

• Own and continuously improve the project management framework
• Drive adoption of project management tools
• Build reporting templates, RACI frameworks, and project intake processes

Education and Experience:

• 7+ years of project or program management experience in a fast-paced, complex environment
• Proven ability to manage multiple high-stakes workstreams simultaneously without dropping the ball
• Mastery of Monday.com, Jira and/or similar enterprise project management tools
• Experience in a strategy, or Operations function is a strong plus
• PMP, PgMP, or equivalent certification preferred but not required
• Exceptional written and verbal communication — you make the complex feel simple
• A bias for clarity, action, and accountability — in yourself and others

Physical Requirements:

• Lift up to 15 pounds unassisted
• Prolonged periods of sitting at a desk and working at a computer

The minimum and maximum full-time annual salaries for this role are listed below, by location. Please note that this salary information is solely for candidates hired to perform work within one of these locations and refers to the amount TemperPack is willing to pay at the time of this posting.
Richmond, VA: $100,000 - $130,000 for Master Project Manager

Candidates hired to work in other locations will be subject to the pay range associated with that location, and the actual annualized salary amount offered to any candidate at the time of hire will be reflected solely in the candidate’s offer letter.

Candidates must be authorized to work in the United States on a permanent and ongoing basis. This position is not eligible for employment visa sponsorship now or in the future.

*Important Notice:

At this time, our company will not be engaging with external agencies or third-party vendors for recruitment services. We appreciate the interest of recruitment agencies, but kindly request that they refrain from contacting us regarding potential candidates. We are excited to build our internal recruitment capabilities and establish direct relationships with potential hires.

TemperPack provides Equal Employment Opportunity to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex/gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, and related medical conditions, sexual orientation, and gender identity), national origin, age, disability, genetic information, or status as a covered veteran/reservist, and any other class of protected individuals, in accordance with applicable federal, state, and local laws. Our company uses E-Verify to confirm the employment eligibility of all newly hired employees. To learn more about E-Verify, including your rights and responsibilities, please visit www.E-Verify.gov.