Project Manager III

This role provides planning, coordination, and monitoring support for complex operational, engineering, and business initiatives. The postholder will maintain accurate project documentation, track deliverables, milestones, costs, and resources, and proactively manage risks and issues. The role also focuses on promoting project management best practices by sharing lessons learned, advising project leads and team members, strengthening stakeholder relationships, and driving continuous improvement across programmes.

1. Provide planning, coordination and monitoring support for complex operational, engineering, and business initiatives

• Maintain accurate and timely project plans, meeting notes, status reporting and other relevant project documentation

• Identify and schedule project deliverables, milestones and tasks. Assist in defining scope, deliverables, success criteria and key metrics of the project in conjunction with project leadership and other key stakeholders

• Monitor project cost and resource usage where appropriate

• Escalate risks and issues that have potential to impact project(s)

• Respond to stakeholder requests for information

2. Identify and recommend best practices, techniques and tools for project planning, execution, tracking, communication and key performance metrics for the department

   
    

• Share lessons learned and best practices across programs, building relationships with stakeholders and brokering relationships at all levels

• Manage project administration, independently assess areas of improvement, and collect feedback for a lessons learned report

• Advise project leads and team members on project management best practices

1. FORMAL EDUCATION

Required: Bachelor's degree in business, science or technology field

Preferred: PMP certification

2. KNOWLEDGE & EXPERIENCE:

Required:

• Must be at least eighteen (18) years of age

• Must have five (5) years of work experience in operations, supply chain, manufacturing, order management, engineering, procurement, finance, technical (R&D), EHS, regulatory, sales and marketing functions, and support IT systems

• Experience in project management, or a functional leadership role on supporting large or complex multi-functional and multi-divisional projects, including business or system integrations, acquisitions or rationalizations

• Fundamental knowledge of project management methodology, tools and techniques

• Knowledge of project scheduling and monitoring tools

• Experience with process mapping and implementation

• Working knowledge of transactional lean principles and techniques

Preferred:

• Must have a Project Management Professional (PMP) certification

• Experience supporting large or complex multi-functional and multi-divisional projects, including business or system integrations, acquisitions or rationalizations

• Have seven (7) years of work experience in operations, supply chain, manufacturing, order management, engineering, procurement, finance, technical (R&D), EHS, regulatory, sales and marketing functions, and support IT systems 

3. TECHNICAL/SKILL REQUIREMENTS:

Required:

• Microsoft Office products Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Project, and Visio 

• Strong written and oral communication skills

• Strong presentation and interpersonal skills

• Proven ability to build relationships

• Proven ability and initiative to learn and research new concepts, ideas, and technologies quickly

• Strong systems/process orientation with demonstrated analytical thinking, organization skills and problem solving skills

• Ability to work in a team-oriented, collaborative environment

• Ability to facilitate meetings up to and including executive level and follow up with resulting action items

• Ability to prioritize and execute tasks in a fast-paced, deadline oriented environment

• Ability to work effectively in a multi-cultural environment, and to lead and influence cross-organizationally with and without direct authority

• Proficient at completing objectives from initiation to implementation

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