Sr It Project Program Manager Jobs in Appleton, WI

Your Job
KBX is seeking a Senior Project Manager to lead complex, cross-functional initiatives that drive strategic business outcomes. This role is responsible for aligning stakeholders, managing risk, influencing decisions, and ensuring successful delivery of projects that create long-term value for the organization.
You will serve as a trusted partner to business and technology leaders, bring structure to ambiguity, challenge assumptions, and guide teams through complex decisions. Success in this role requires strong leadership, sound judgment, and the ability to influence without direct authority while balancing competing priorities and organizational objectives.
Our Team
This role is part of a centralized team responsible for enabling the successful delivery of strategic initiatives across KBX. The team partners closely with leaders throughout the organization to prioritize investments, align resources, and execute projects that improve business performance, scalability, and customer value. As a key contributor, you will collaborate across functions and levels of the organization, helping teams navigate change, remove barriers, and deliver measurable business results.
What You Will Do

• Lead complex, cross-functional projects and initiatives from concept through implementation, ensuring alignment to business objectives and strategic priorities.
• Establish project governance, execution strategies, and stakeholder alignment to achieve successful outcomes.
• Partner with business and technology leaders to define scope, priorities, success measures, and expected value.
• Develop and manage project plans, budgets, timelines, risks, dependencies, and resource requirements.
• Facilitate decision-making by identifying trade-offs, evaluating risks, and providing recommendations to stakeholders and leadership.
• Influence and align cross-functional teams, vendors, and business partners to drive execution and accountability.
• Anticipate obstacles, proactively remove roadblocks, and navigate competing priorities in a dynamic environment.
• Communicate project health, risks, opportunities, and strategic recommendations to stakeholders, including senior leadership.
• Drive continuous improvement by identifying opportunities to enhance project delivery practices, team effectiveness, and business outcomes.
• Promote a culture of collaboration, ownership, and value creation across project teams.

Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)

• Experience leading projects and initiatives involving multiple stakeholders, teams, and business functions
• Experience influencing stakeholders and driving alignment across groups
• Experience managing project scope, schedules, budgets, risks, dependencies, and deliverables
• Experience communicating project strategy, progress, risks, and recommendations to stakeholders
• Experience leading initiatives through ambiguity, organizational change, or evolving business requirements
• Experience applying various project management frameworks, methodologies, and tools to achieve business outcomes
• Experience learning a new business, technical, or operational topic within a short timeframe
• Experience developing communications for multiple stakeholder groups requiring different messaging approaches
• Experience translating technical concepts or project impacts into communications that enable stakeholder understanding and decision-making

What Will Put You Ahead

• Experience leading enterprise-wide initiatives or programs
• Experience partnering directly with senior leaders to prioritize work, resolve issues, and drive strategic outcomes
• Experience supporting business transformation, process improvement, integration, or merger and acquisition initiatives
• Experience managing external vendors, consultants, or strategic partners
• Experience influencing project governance, portfolio planning, or resource prioritization decisions
• Experience within transportation, logistics, supply chain, or technology-focused environments
• Experience identifying and implementing opportunities that improve organizational effectiveness and scalability

At Koch companies, we are entrepreneurs. This means we openly challenge the status quo, find new ways to create value and get rewarded for our individual contributions. Any compensation range provided for a role is an estimate determined by available market data. The actual amount may be higher or lower than the range provided considering each candidate's knowledge, skills, abilities, and geographic location. If you have questions, please speak to your recruiter about the flexibility and detail of our compensation philosophy.
Hiring Philosophy
All Koch companies value diversity of thought, perspectives, aptitudes, experiences, and backgrounds. We are Military Ready and Second Chance employers. Learn more about our hiring philosophy here .
Who We Are
KBX Logistics, a Koch company and global leader in transportation, offers world-class, technology-driven capabilities across all modes of managed freight and transportation asset management. KBX is uniquely positioned to meet the challenges shippers face, leveraging decades of firsthand experience and data-driven insights from a large, diverse, and global business network. By building mutually beneficial partnerships and innovative technology, KBX creates a competitive advantage for its customers and meets the growing need for cost effective and reliable supply chain solutions. For more information on KBX, visit www.kbx.com
At Koch, employees are empowered to do what they do best to make life better. Learn how our business philosophy helps employees unleash their potential while creating value for themselves and the company.
Our Benefits
Our goal is for each employee, and their families, to live fulfilling and healthy lives. We provide essential resources and support to build and maintain physical, financial, and emotional strength - focusing on overall wellbeing so you can focus on what matters most. Our benefits plan includes - medical, dental, vision, flexible spending and health savings accounts, life insurance, ADD, disability, retirement, paid vacation/time off, educational assistance, and may also include infertility assistance, paid parental leave and adoption assistance. Specific eligibility criteria is set by the applicable Summary Plan Description, policy or guideline and benefits may vary by geographic region. If you have questions on what benefits apply to you, please speak to your recruiter.
Additionally, everyone has individual work and personal needs. We seek to enable the best work environment that helps you and the business work together to produce superior results.
Equal Opportunities
Equal Opportunity Employer, including disability and protected veteran status. Except where prohibited by state law, some offers of employment are conditioned upon successfully passing a drug test. This employer uses E-Verify. Please click here for additional information. (For Illinois E-Verify information click here , aquí , or tu ).