Associate Director Strategic Project Manager; Supply Chain​/Manufacturing

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Alpharetta, GA - USAtime type:
Full time posted on:
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Clorox is the place that’s committed to growth – for our people and our brands. Guided by our purpose and values, and with people at the center of everything we do, we believe every one of us can make a positive impact on consumers, communities, and teammates. Join our team.
** Your role at Clorox:
** The Associate Director – Strategic Project Manager is responsible for leading complex, high-impact projects (Enterprise, Functional, or Business Unit) from initiation through execution and closure. This role ensures delivery of business requirements by driving planning, resource alignment, risk mitigation, execution discipline, and stakeholder communication.
Beyond project delivery, this role brings strategic thinking, digital and AI fluency, adaptive leadership, and change enablement to ensure projects achieve sustained business outcomes and support Clorox’s competitiveness, growth, innovation, and cost-effectiveness.
** In this role, you will:
**** Project Leadership & Execution Excellence
*** Lead end-to-end project planning, including scoping, goal setting, roadmap creation, milestone development, and resource allocation.
* Drive execution discipline by converting strategies and plans into action, maintaining schedule, scope, cost, quality, and benefits realization.
* Apply strategic and systems thinking to ensure alignment with enterprise, functional, and business unit priorities; understand cross-functional dependencies, trade-offs, and downstream impacts.
* Demonstrate decision-making under uncertainty, making timely and informed choices using data, judgment, and experience while knowing when to pivot, escalate, or pause.
* Identify, assess, and mitigate project risks proactively to minimize disruption and maintain delivery commitments.
* Lead problem-solving efforts by anticipating obstacles early and acting decisively with high ownership and accountability. Quality Control:
Ensuring project deliverables meet requirements.
* Problem Solving:
Identifying and resolving project challenges, making timely decisions to overcome obstacles.
* Leverage strong digital acumen to operate effectively within modern, cloud-based collaboration, workflow, and dashboard environments.
* Apply data literacy to interpret insights, pressure-test assumptions, and support planning/
* Demonstrate a technology-enablement mindset, continuously assessing tools for productivity and effectiveness while avoiding unnecessary complexity or tool worship.
** Team Leadership & Stakeholder Engagement
*** Assemble and lead cross-functional project teams, delegating effectively, providing clarity, and inspiring high performance.
* Use stakeholder intelligence and influence to build trust, navigate organizational dynamics, align priorities, and resolve conflicts.
* Demonstrate adaptive leadership and emotional intelligence—adjusting leadership approaches to context, fostering psychological safety, and coaching team members to elevate performance.
* Communicate progress, risks, financial impacts, and critical decisions clearly and consistently to sponsors, executives, and stakeholders.
** Community of Practice and External Perspective
*** Sense and explore external benchmarks, capabilities, trends, best practices, digital/AI applications and competitive intelligence for incorporation into the Project Management CoP.
** What we look for:
*** 10+ years of progressive project management experience spanning multiple project types (including Innovation, Cost Savings, Operations, and Strategic)  with increasing responsibility, scope and complexity and a demonstrated track record of success.
* Bachelor's degree is a must, MBA is highly desirable.
* Must have a background with Supply Chain, Operations, or Consumer Packaged Goods.
* Demonstrated experience in both Waterfall and Agile project approaches is a MUST.
* Able to identify and develop strategic and tactical options for project execution.
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