Information Technology Project Manager

Founded over 35 years ago, First Quality is a family‑owned company that has grown from a small business in McElhattan, Pennsylvania into a group of companies, employing over 5,000 team members, while maintaining our family values and entrepreneurial spirit. With corporate offices in New York and Pennsylvania and 8 manufacturing campuses across the U.S. and Canada, the companies within the First Quality group produce high‑quality personal care and household products for large retailers and healthcare organizations.

Our personal care and household product portfolio includes baby diapers, wipes, feminine pads, paper towels, bath tissue, adult incontinence products, laundry detergents, fabric finishers, and dishwash solutions. In addition, we manufacture certain raw materials and components used in the manufacturing of these products, including flexible print and packaging solutions.

Guided by our values of humility, unity, and integrity, we leverage advanced technology and innovation to drive growth and create new opportunities. At First Quality, you’ll find a collaborative environment focused on continuous learning, professional development, and our mission to Make Things Better®.

We are seeking an IT Project Manager for our First Quality Enterprise company working remotely.

This position accomplishes project objectives by evaluating requirements and outcomes needed from the project as well as planning, executing, monitoring/controlling and closing project activities. In addition, the position will ensure change is introduced efficiently and effectively in the organization by leading, directing, coordinating and providing visibility into the organization’s change management efforts. The role creates change management strategies and develops change work streams that maximize employees’ change readiness and adoption.

• Employs structured project management methodologies (e.g. PMI) to deliver successful business outcomes through expertly managed projects at the IT or enterprise level.
• Develops detailed project plans, deliverables, milestones, goals and inter/intra project dependency maps that ensure all required project work is executed completely, correctly and timely.
• Works with project sponsors and stakeholders to define the appropriate resource requirements in terms of skills, knowledge, availability and capacity to successfully conduct project work. Ensures that any gap is identified and addressed at the proper time within the project timeline to maximize project efficiency and efficacy.
• Assembles and coordinates project team members and assignments across individuals maintaining balanced workloads.
• Creates comprehensive communications plans that identify the level, type, format and style of communications for the project team, stakeholders, and sponsors. Utilizes standard tools (e.g. RACI) to define roles and responsibilities at all times within the project lifecycle.
• Prepares requests for proposals (RFPs) for external services and conducts all necessary meetings to facilitate selection. Monitors contracts and maintains regular communication with service providers.
• Develops proper risk management strategies that focus on risk identification and proactive response/mitigation. Ensures that issue management is comprehensive, visible and timely to minimize impact to the project. Educates team members in risk/issue management and ensures the discipline is built into the DNA of the project team and its operations.
• Develops, maintains and communicates detailed project financial budgets and forecast status. Ensures project financials are managed proactively and provides visibility at required levels of the organization. Works closely with Sourcing and Vendor Management to ensure supplier engagements meet the project requirements and benefit the organization.
• Complies with all policies and procedures and ensures the project teams are educated and follow them.
• Works with IT Leadership to continuously improve project and change management processes, tools, knowledge and capability across the organization.
• Employs a structured change management methodology (e.g. ADKAR) to facilitate change…