Project Manager-Food & Beverage Manufacturing

Job Category:

Project & Program Management

Job Family:

Enterprise Project Management

Job Description:

This position leverages experience and expertise in project management. In this leadership role, the Enterprise Project Manager is accountable for obtaining clearly defined project success criteria and outcomes that aide in achieving desired strategic, business outcomes. This will be accomplished by leading cross functional teams through Schreiber Foods' project management process, Enterprise Project Management (EPM). Leading others by guiding them through the EPM process requires project management skills established in the Project Management Book of Knowledge (PMBOK) and recognized by the Project Management Institute (PMI) as industry best practices.

This position is expected to advocate for best practices in project management within Schreiber and assist in the growth of Schreiber's organizational competency in project management toward a world class level. This individual will work closely with the EPM Director, senior business leaders (champions and project sponsors), functional process experts (process owners) and project team members (specialists and experts) in attaining business results that drive our organization forward.

This position is a tremendous professional opportunity for someone looking to drive critical business results, improve their professional network within Schreiber, and sharpen their overall business acumen.

This role offers a flexible hybrid work schedule (Monday-Friday) located at our Home Office in Green Bay, Wisconsin. The hybrid work schedule is 3 days/week onsite at Home Office and 2 days/week from home.

Relocation Benefits:
Receive a $10,000 relocation bonus PLUS a generous relocation package if relocating more than 50 miles for this position.

You'll find lots to love in our beautiful home office in downtown Green Bay, Wisconsin. Our jeans-friendly environment has indoor and outdoor collaboration spaces, state-of-the-art R&D and sensory labs, culinary kitchens, a pilot plant, innovation center and more.

Take advantage of outdoor work spaces. Sample and provide feedback on new products from our R&D team. Enjoy free coffee, soda and popcorn. Take a short walk to restaurants, breweries, the YMCA and a weekly farmer's market on the scenic Fox River. You can even see Lambeau Field from our top floor.

What you'll do:

* In this role, lead cross-functional teams for assigned projects. Ensure adherence to Schreiber Foods' project management process (EPM) in order to achieve desired project outcomes.

* Manage day- to-day activities of the project team; guide them to understand and apply the EPM process.

* 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.

* Close projects by documenting lessons learned and a scorecard.

* As a member of the EPM team, 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.

* Together with the leadership team, ensures compliance with Food Safety and Food Quality Plans, in addition to customer requirements.

* Interprets and communicates customer requirements to plant production and/or support groups.

* Establishes and Audits PCPs, CCPs and Standard Operating Procedures to define and monitor processes, to ensure customer requirements are met.

* Reviews incidents during which the procedures are not met, and determines appropriate corrective action for partners failing to follow standard procedures.

What you need to succeed:

* Bachelors in Accounting, finance, engineering, operations, marketing, IT, human resources, supply chain, business or 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.

* 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 ability to…