Sr. Manager, Operations Project Management

Leadership Role In Operations Transformation Projects

This leadership role will lead a team of project managers in executing operations transformation projects. This requires partnering with multiple functions to undertake a major project initiative or change event, and work with them to develop their Business Case, establishing the governance model, assigning resources, and all other activities associated with project initiation. You are also responsible for monitoring and reporting on all projects within your assigned portfolio, to ensure complete delivery of Scope, within budget and within the agreed timeline. You will be responsible for oversight of 9-10 major initiatives within the company at any given time and will manage both internal resources, contract resources, and consulting resources that may be engaged for delivery of the programs or initiatives. You will also be connected to other leaders within operations and will partner with them on delivering their goals.

Primary responsibilities include:

• Manage and support Project Managers who are responsible for delivering the following:
• Deliver on all project management activities for an assigned project or program from Initiation through Closure.
• Demonstrate natural leadership and communication skills to instil confidence in business executive team of your expertise and capability.
• Manage multiple projects or programs simultaneously. Potentially across multiple businesses, across time zones, internationally, etc. Includes travel nationally and internationally as required by the project.
• Adopt, utilize and enhance the standard company tools, processes and templates.
• Work with a continuous improvement mind-set so that all activities become inputs and improvements for future projects.
• Identify and manage project and program interdependencies.
• Manage external parties involved in an assigned project.
• Manage project completion, handover to steady-state, and post implementation reviews.
• Responsible for quality control for all outputs from the team within your assigned portfolio.
• Responsible for establishing and maintaining program and portfolio governance across your assigned portfolio.
• Responsible for managing resources across your assigned portfolio that will include 9-10 major transformations for the business.
• Responsible for managing risk and issues, as well as interdependencies across your assigned portfolio.

Qualifications:

Essential:

• Able to demonstrate 10+ years of leadership experience in a manufacturing environment.
• Able to demonstrate concepts of business analysis and critical thinking, including but not limited to: business case development, root cause analysis, business decision matrices, business process mapping and optimization.
• Able to demonstrate experience in strategic thinking and guiding teams in development of strategies and roadmaps that tie to those strategies.
• Able to demonstrate effective implementation and execution of a governance model and communicate the importance.
• Able to demonstrate a working knowledge of organizational change management.
• Able to demonstrate experience in leading discussions and extracting required information out of resources to define business requirements, project scope, solution design and options analysis, project planning, resource management, risk and issue management, communications plans, then be able to drive projects through to a successful completion.
• Able to demonstrate ability to confront situations that need resolution, no matter how uncomfortable the situation is.
• Able to demonstrate superior verbal and written communication skills.
• Able to project confidence and competence in presentation of materials.
• Able to demonstrate professional interpersonal & negotiation skills.
• Able to demonstrate a proactive style.
• Able to demonstrate being an active listener.
• Able to demonstrate various ways of influencing and how to apply those effectively.
• Able to demonstrate performance and outcome oriented.
• Able to effectively set and manage expectations both internally and externally across a portfolio of projects.
• Able to demonstrate ability to mentor team members to develop competencies across the team.
• Able to demonstrate excellent attention to detail including the ability to capture and record decisions, discussions and events for referential purposes.
• Able to travel up to 50% of time domestically and internationally (potentially Mexico and Canada only).
• Able to demonstrate proficiency in using common office technology and tools.

Preferred:

• Smartsheet and/or MS Project Proficient
• Project Management Professional (PMP) certified.
• Lean Six Sigma training and/or experience.

A reasonable estimate of the current range is $160,000 -$200,000 + bonus + benefits. The range displayed on each job posting reflects the minimum and maximum target salaries for the position across all US locations. Within the range, individual pay is determined by job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. At Novolex, it is not typical for an individual to be hired at the top of the range for their role and compensation decisions are dependent on the facts and circumstances of each case.

The benefits for this role include 401(k) plan with company match, comprehensive medical, dental, and vision insurance, flexible spending and health savings accounts, paid vacation, and sick days, paid parental leave, paid holidays and wellness program.