Enterprise Project Director

Job Category: Manufacturing/Operations

Job Family: Enterprise Project Management

Job Description:

Lead Cross-Functional Teams

As a Senior Project Manager, you will lead cross-functional teams for assigned projects at Schreiber Foods. Your primary responsibility will be to ensure adherence to the company's project management process (EPM) to achieve desired project outcomes.

Key Responsibilities:

• Manage day-to-day project activities
• Manage key project documentation and communication to the team and organization
• Lead development of a project charter, communication plan, and overall project plan
• Manage team execution of the plan, any changes, deliverable completion, risk mitigation, and issue resolution
• Closing projects by documenting lessons learned and a scorecard

Additional Responsibilities:

• Provide support for Schreiber Foods' project management process via leading formal process training events, general project support, EPM process advocacy, presentations, and reporting, auditing, coaching/mentoring, and organizational communications
• Provide expertise in project management tools, exploiting the features of scheduling, resource planning, and work definition, base-lining, and reporting
• Leverage expertise to support organizational project work and competency development
• Aid continuous improvement activities supporting the organizational maturity development of project management and the EPM process
• Ensure compliance with Food Safety and Food Quality Plans, in addition to customer requirements

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, Engineering, Operations, Marketing, IT, Human Resources, Supply Chain, Business, or a related field
• Minimum of 3-5 years' successful project management experience required
• Prefer 10-15+ years of project management experience with additional business/functional leadership experience
• Spanish and English fluency required, Portuguese preferred
• Excellent leadership, interpersonal, and conflict management skills
• High attention to detail, highly disciplined, process-driven, and organized
• Strong influential and facilitative leadership skills
• Self-motivated, high initiative, and results-oriented
• Excellent presentation, written, and verbal communication skills
• High energy, positive, motivating, and strong team-building skills
• Desire and ability to teach others
• Self-driven leader with the ability to make decisions, build trust, and facilitate negotiations
• Acute political and cultural awareness
• Knowledge of MS Office Suite
• Strong or emerging expertise with MS Project
• Project Management Professional (PMP) certification preferred
• Strong analytical skills
• Ability to quickly determine/recommend a course of action with limited information
• Ability to travel up to 20%