Professional - Central Project Manager IV

Job Description: Project Manager

Position Summary
Provide project management services at the KC North America business unit and functional levels in addition to providing functional supply chain and operations expertise to these activities. The position requires the ability to provide leadership coordination and direction to ensure the successful delivery of projects by facilitating across functions and disciplines..

Key Accountabilities
Provide Project Management services for the implementation and commercialization of KC projects. Project types may include manufacturing capacity/expansions innovation cost savings safety quality replacement and business continuity. Projects maybe be capital or noncapital and may be manufactured internally or externally to KC.
Accountable for projects to achieve the desired outcome in terms of scope schedule cost financial success criteria and quality expectations.
Follows Project Management Best Practices including but not limited to chartering interactive planning sessions timeline management risk management and status reportouts.
Coordinates the development and presentation of business cases proposals to facilitate project stage/gate approvals and/or capital authorization.
Conduct leadership project reviews and status updates including escalation of roadblocks. Remove barriers for project teams through effective decision analysis and influencing upward.
Act as key liaison to plant teams relative to project execution plans (as applicable).
Ensure accuracy of capital forecasts for projects when in the planned phase.
Provides supply chain functional expertise for projects and completes supply chain assessments for projects to properly dimension risks and costs.
Lead by example and model core values in all actions; ensure a positive respectful team environment fostering collaboration and development.
Must be able to balance multiple projects at a time in dynamic work environment and flexible to take on new or different assignments if priorities change.

Dimension
Reports to Associate Director of the Project Management Office or PMO Team Leader

Required (essential for the job):
Bachelors Degree
710 years of experience in increasingly broader technical operational or supply chain roles with a demonstrated track record of achievement and growth in leadership

Preferred (not essential but desired):
Previous experience working for a global highly matrixed Consumer Packaged Goods company
Manufacturing and/or supply chain experience
Experience coordinating a cross functional team to achieve a goal
Prior experience that required influencing leaders outside of administrative authority
Basic P&L understanding and business case development
Strong communication skills
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